Click here to download/view the tool (updated June 16, 2021)
The purpose of the toolkit is to assist diverse officials and stakeholders at the country and global levels to identify and collect information on the potential opportunities for health campaignA coordinated set of activities that targets resources to achieve a specific health goal or goals and is typically time-limited. integrationThe sharing of all or specific campaign components or functions by a specific program addressing a disease or health need with the broader health system and ongoing delivery of int.
The objectives are to:
- Identify opportunities for initiating and continuing a discussion on campaign integration;
- Provide evidence-based criteria to help country health programs and stakeholders pair campaign interventions with strong promise for effective full or partial integrationPartial integration refers to a spectrum or continuum, in which campaigns share different operational and/or administrative components with any of the PHC system elements per the m;
- Highlight the factors that are potential facilitators and barriers to such combinations in each country context; and
- Facilitate the synthesis of global and national guidelines, standards, and criteria to inform campaign integration decisions in each country.
While not exhaustive, the two appendices–Worksheet for Global and Country Standards on Planning Health Campaign Integration and Criteria across Health Domains and Specific Interventions for Selecting Potential Campaign Integration—can be particularly helpful for the pre-planning stages of campaign integration. Click here to download Appendix A.
Users
The intended users are policy(i) A set of decisions or commitments to pursue courses of action aimed at achieving defined goals for improving health, stating or inferring the values that underpin these decisio makers and stakeholders at the national, subnational, regional, and global levels who oversee, plan, finance, implement, or monitor health campaigns, and that issue guidance around health campaigns, PHC, and health systems strengthening.
In developing this tool, special attention was dedicated to upholding the key categories of Feasibility, Accountability, AcceptabilityThe culture of individuals, minorities, peoples and communities, sensitive to gender and life-cycle requirements, as well as being designed to respect confidentiality and improve t, Compatibility, Context, and EquityEquity in the context of public health campaigns refers to providing high-quality interventions uniformly and in a fair and impartial manner to all target populations including und (see Appendix C).