Addressing fragility through community-based health programmes: insights from two qualitative case study evaluations in South Sudan and Haiti

• Main Authors: Séverine Erismann (Author), Sibel Gürler (Author), Verena Wieland (Author), Helen Prytherch (Author), Nino Künzli (Author), Jürg Utzinger (Author), Bernadette Peterhans (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Fragility can have a negative effect on health systems and people's health, and poses considerable challenges for actors implementing health programmes. However, how such programmes, in turn, affect the overall fragility of a context is rarely considered. The Swiss Red Cross...