Community-Based Organizations can improve patient outcomes by activating patients, avoiding both short- and long-term nursing facility stays, and preventing unnecessary hospital admissions. As our ...

In their recent Viewpoint, Frieden and colleagues argue that mass blood pressure screening diverts resources from improving hypertension care. We present a counterargument that community-based blood ...

Mental health service provision can—and should—respect the human rights of individuals seeking or receiving care. The necessary components of mental health services that respect human rights include ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, applies a community-based protection approach rooted in the principle of “people protecting people”, recognizing that community members are often best placed to identify ...

Multistakeholder collaborations to address SDOH have flourished in recent years and have informed what is needed to develop a sustainable operating infrastructure between health care and CBOs to ...

Jenn Heroux-Bachand, the crisis bed manager at Northeast Kingdom Human Services, grew up helping out on her grandparents’ dairy farm. She knows what it means to work hard. As a kid, she got up to milk ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A recently published horizon scan on community-based conservation identified 15 topics that offer opportunities to yield positive change for people ...

The Nordic model for community support to refugees is inspired by the community-based sponsorship programmes originating from Canada. The description covers programmes that allow individuals, groups ...

This is part of a series of articles The Conversation Africa is running on financial inclusion and micro credit and their role in economic development. Over the past half a century lending to the poor ...