Are village health sanitation and nutrition committees fulfilling their roles for decentralised health planning and action? A mixed methods study from rural eastern India

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• 作者：Aradhana Srivastava ; Rajkumar Gope ; Nirmala Nair ; Shibanand Rath…
• 关键词：Village health sanitation and nutrition committee ; Community participation ; Decentralized governance ; Planning ; India
• 刊名：BMC Public Health
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：16
• 期：1
• 全文大小：525 KB
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• 作者单位：Aradhana Srivastava (1)
  Rajkumar Gope (2)
  Nirmala Nair (2)
  Shibanand Rath (2)
  Suchitra Rath (2)
  Rajesh Sinha (2)
  Prabas Sahoo (1)
  Pavitra Mohan Biswal (2)
  Vijay Singh (2)
  Vikash Nath (2)
  HPS Sachdev (3)
  Jolene Skordis-Worrall (4)
  Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli (4)
  Anthony Costello (4)
  Audrey Prost (4)
  Sanghita Bhattacharyya (1)
  
  1. Public Health Foundation of India, Plot no. 47, Sector 44 Institutional Area, Gurgaon, 122002, New Delhi, Haryana, India
  2. Ekjut, Chakradharpur, Jharkhand, India
  3. Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science and Research, New Delhi, India
  4. Institute for Global Health, University College London, 30 Guilford Street, London, WC1N 1EH, UK
  
• 刊物主题：Public Health; Medicine/Public Health, general; Epidemiology; Environmental Health; Biostatistics; Vaccine;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1471-2458

文摘

Background In India, Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition Committees (VHSNCs) are participatory community health forums, but there is little information about their composition, functioning and effectiveness. Our study examined VHSNCs as enablers of participatory action for community health in two rural districts in two states of eastern India – West Singhbhum in Jharkhand and Kendujhar, in Odisha.