Community Platforms for Public Health Interventions

Community health platforms are partnerships among public health professionals, politicians, and community members that rely on shared strengths to identify and develop responses to health concerns of the community. These partnerships build on the community’s own concerns and priorities as they are informed by the evidence brought in by the public health partners. They also link the community to its political officials in a conversation about health priorities. Ultimately the communities need to have information about the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions to address their priorities which makes most of the content of the Disease Control Priorities extremely valuable. In the long run, developing a functional community health platform is a self-sustaining way to ensure that the response to the local health burden is aligned with the strengths and vulnerabilities of the community. This type of response can outlast a series of externally imposed projects and initiatives.

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Sherry M, Ghaffar A, Bishai D. Community Platforms for Public Health Interventions. In: Jamison D et al, editors. Disease Control Priorities: Improving Health and Reducing Poverty. Washington, DC: World Bank; 2017.