Mobilising demand for primary health care services among urban slums: insights from a case study in Bangladesh

Alayne M. Adams and Sabina F. Rashid

Development in Practice, 2021, vol. 31, issue 6, 726-738

Abstract: This qualitative case study examines a pilot community mobilisation initiative to increase access to qualified primary health care services among slum dwellers in Bangladesh. Emerging from analysis are a series of key considerations in the design and implementation of mobilisation activities in poor urban settlements. These include who best to mobilise in highly stratified social settings; how to bridge communities in need with outside resources; the role of development agents in organising participation; whether mobilisation processes can be phased over time; and the imperative of policy advocacy to shift complex structural inequities that preclude investments in health care for the urban disadvantaged.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2020.1862763

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