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Scaling up effective interventions in Global Health
What do we mean by spread or scale-up? Though some people differentiate between the two, for the purposes of this presentation we will use spread and scale-up interchangeably. Spread is defined as the science of taking a local improvement (e.g. an intervention, a redesign of a process or system) that has demonstrated better results than the current method and actively disseminating it across a system, i.e. making an intervention that has proven to be more successful happen at a much larger scale than the initial location where the improvement originally took place. In this chapter, everything we will discuss will relate to an improved practice, a high-impact evidence-based intervention, a better result or a new process of care delivery that has produced a better result. We will discuss this in the context of taking the practice from the scale at which it was originally developed and actively moving it into a much larger geographic area covering a large number of facilities and patients. This is essentially what we mean by spread or scale-up.
Learning Areas:
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programsProgram planning
Provision of health care to the public
Public health administration or related administration
Public health or related organizational policy, standards, or other guidelines
Public health or related public policy
Learning Objectives:
Discuss ways to scale up effective interventions
Discuss challenges and opportunities for rapid scale up
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