(d) Community linkages Community linkages The existence of a structural link with organisations that could refer beneficiaries was seen as important.
Attention needs to be paid to interfaces, enhancing linkage with community engagement, and encouraging involvement of local communities and primary care providers in the design of psychosocial interventions.
Some examples include increasing HIV prevention attendance among female inmates; increasing the percentage of inmates receiving an HIV test at admission; and improving the linkage to community treatment for HIV positive inmates leaving prison.
Many of the injury prevention projects are usually functioned within the education system with a weak linkage with community.
The study cohort was constructed through manual data linkage between community birth records from the two government operated primary HCs and medical records at the regional hospital.
Strategies to improve detection of children overdue with immunisation should focus on alternative strategies for alerting clinicians, such as linkage of community and hospital electronic records.
We constructed the study cohort through manual data linkage between community birth records and medical records at the two HCs and the regional hospital, identifying 424 eligible infants.
During the inception of the program a strong linkage between community, TBAs, HEWs and health facility was thought to promote implementation of skilled delivery attendance and Emergency Obstetric care (EmOC).
Hence, relationships between various sociodemographic factors and attendance at a 6-, 12-, and 18-month health and/or developmental check with a healthcare professional will also be examined using data linkage with community nurse records.
Linkage of community research data to routinely collected clinic data provides an important opportunity to calculate direct estimates of coverage with PMTCT services, yet very few studies have used this approach [ 7].
