Glossary

The culture of individuals, minorities, peoples and communities, sensitive to gender and life-cycle requirements, as well as being designed to

The ease in reaching health services or health facilities in terms of location, time, and ease of approach.

Communications based activities used to raise awareness, increase community engagement, and/or create a change in behavior.

Co-delivery of interventions in campaigns occurs when most or all typical campaign components (microplanning, registration, logistics, implementation, and evaluation) are

Collaboration involves the sharing of specific campaign components between vertical health programs and can be thought of as collaborative delivery

The process by which community benefit organizations and individuals build a long term relationship with collective vision for the benefit

A form of economic evaluation where costs are expressed in money terms but consequences are expressed in physical units. It

A proportion (%) that reflects the number of people receiving (an) intervention(s) divided by the total number of people eligible

Qualitative or quantitative information that guarantees integrity, methodological soundness, accuracy and reliability, serviceability, and accessibility for any healthcare services.

The ability of a campaign to achieve specific objectives related to coverage, equity, efficiency and impact.

The ability of campaign-delivered interventions to achieve higher levels of performance (coverage, quality, or equity) relative to the inputs (resources,

Equity in the context of public health campaigns refers to providing high-quality interventions uniformly and in a fair and impartial

Morally right, rooted in equality, and aiming to prioritize good and minimize harm.

The systematic and objective assessment of the relevance, adequacy, progress, efficiency, effectiveness and impact of a course of actions, in

The resources required to deliver public health functions to populations, the impact of those resources on the health of those

Involves sharing of both operational and administrative functions and responsibilities and delivery of campaign interventions via primary health care (PHC).

(i) the exercise of political, economic and administrative authority in the management of a country’s affairs at all levels, comprising

Time-bound, intermittent activities which are deployed to address specific epidemiologic challenges, expediently fill delivery gaps, or provide surge coverage for

A system designed to manage healthcare data. This includes systems that collect, store, manage and transmit a patient’s electronic medical

All people engaged in actions whose primary intent is to enhance health.

(i) The total, direct and indirect, effects of a programme, service or institution on a health status and overall health