RESEARCH BRIEFS

VAPAR Research Briefs provide summary information and analysis on specific topics

Reports: List

SERIES 4 (2022-23)

Community health worker: at the forefront of addressing HIV and TB lost to follow-up

Local PHC decision-making: identifying and extending existing capacity through cooperative learning

‘Setting the scene’: CHW-led community research on persons lost to follow up with HIV/TB treatment

Connecting policy and practice: realising community health systems solidarity for comprehensive PHC

Circumstances of mortality categories (COMCAT): a practical tool for health managers and planners

Evaluating verbal autopsy data to support evidence-based community health systems

Evidence review: alcohol and other drug (AOD) policy

Evidence review: lack of clean, safe water

Understanding under-5 mortality: Local knowledge on fear and avoidance of the health system

Acting to reduce under-5 mortality: Knowledge partnerships for coordinated action

Understanding non-communicable diseases (NCDs): combining surveillance data with local knowledge

'It destroys families, communities and futures': local knowledge to reduce alcohol and drug abuse

‘Water is life’: working with communities to develop local knowledge for action to address water shortage