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Community Dynamics and Engagement Strategies in Establishing Demographic Development and Environmental Surveillance Systems: A Multi-Site Report from India

Healthcare (Switzerland), ISSN: 2227-9032, Vol: 11, Issue: 3
2023
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New COVID-19 Research Reported from Maulana Azad Medical College (Community Dynamics and Engagement Strategies in Establishing Demographic Development and Environmental Surveillance Systems: A Multi-Site Report from India)

2023 FEB 16 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at NewsRx COVID-19 Daily -- Research findings on COVID-19 are discussed in a new

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Background: Six diverse Demographic Development and Environmental Surveillance System (DDESS) sites were established in urban slum, urban resettlement, peri-urban, rural, and tribal areas located in Northern, North-East, Eastern, and Southern regions of India from June 2020 to March 2022. Understanding the community dynamics and engaging people in the community is critically important in the process of establishing DDESS. We ascertained the barriers, challenges, and facilitators during the establishment of multiple DDESS sites across India. Methods: This was a cross-sectional descriptive mixed-methods study. Results: Multiple barriers and challenges encountered were reported in the process of community engagement (CE), such as geographical inaccessibility, language barriers, adverse weather, non-responsiveness due to perceived lack of individual benefit or financial gain, fear of contracting COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, etc. Facilitators in the CE process were pre-existing links with the community, constitution of community advisory boards, community need assessment, concomitant delivery of outreach health services, and skill-building facilities. Conclusion: Most community barriers in the development of DDESS sites in resource-limited settings can be overcome through a multipronged approach, including effective community engagement by focusing on demonstrating trust at the local level, enlisting community mobilization and support, utilizing pre-existing community linkages, initiating community diagnosis, and meeting perceived community health needs.

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Sharma, Nandini; Palo, Subrata Kumar; Bhimarasetty, Devi Madhavi; Kandipudi, Kesava Lakshmi Prasad; Purty, Anil J; Kumar, Tivendra; Basu, Saurav; Alice, Alice; Velavan, A; Madhavan, Sathish; Rongsen-Chandola, Temsunaro; Arora, Narendra Kumar; Dixit, Shikha; Pati, Sanghamitra; Taneja Malik, Shikha

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