Reimagining malaria: five reasons to strengthen community engagement in the lead up to malaria elimination

Maxine  Whittaker; Catherine Smith

doi:10.1186/s12936-015-0931-9

Reimagining malaria: five reasons to strengthen community engagement in the lead up to malaria elimination

Maxine Whittaker, Catherine Smith

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Although community engagement has been recognized as an important element of public health since the Alma Ata declaration, in practice community engagement has played a marginal role within malaria control programmes. As more countries move toward elimination, malaria elimination programmes will need to reimagine malaria in a number of ways. An important element of this will be to re-conceptualize and better strategize community engagement, which will become increasingly important for programme success as countries near elimination. This commentary intends to begin a conversation on re-imagining community engagement in an elimination setting, by outlining five ways that community engagement should be strengthened and re-strategized in the lead up to malaria elimination.

Original language	English
Article number	410
Pages (from-to)	1-6
Number of pages	6
Journal	Malaria Journal
Volume	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-015-0931-9
Publication status	Published - 16 Oct 2015
Externally published	Yes

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Keywords

community engagement
community participation
collaboration
malaria elimination
Malaria elimination
Collaboration
Community engagement
Community participation

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