Involves sharing of both operational and administrative functions and responsibilities and delivery of campaign interventions via primary health care (PHC). It occurs when interventions that were formerly delivered via independent health campaigns are delivered at the PHC level with other ongoing health services.
In a Technical Brief for the Health Campaign Effectiveness Coalition (HCE) at the Task Force for Global Health (TFGH), HCE defines full integration as “involv[ing] sharing of both operational and administrative functions and responsibilities and delivery of campaign interventions via primary health care (PHC).” Full integration “occurs when interventions that were formerly delivered via independent health campaigns are delivered at the PHC level with other ongoing health services.” This brief had two major contributors: Barkha Bhatnagar and David Gittelman. Bhatnagar is a Health Systems Research Associate at the TFGH, as well as a DrPH Candidate at Boston University School of Public Health. Gittelman (MPH) is a technical advisor for both HCE at the TFGH and for the Alliance for Malaria Prevention (AMP). The technical brief itself offers a series of “evidence-based practices and opportunities” for countries and partner organizations to improve or integrate health campaigns and outcomes. The brief performs a literature review on co-delivery and collaboration between health programs from 2002-2020 in order to discover these practices and opportunities, as well as the primary potential reasons for integration.
Health Campaign Effectiveness Coalition. “Integration Between Health Campaigns: Intervention Co-Delivery and Collaboration.” Decatur, GA: Task Force for Global Health, 2020. https://campaigneffectiveness.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Health-Campaign-Integration_Technical-Brief_14AUG2020-1.pdf.