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Table 5 Summary of proposed interventions to build and maintain community participation in malaria prevention practices (particularly the use of LLINs).

From: Community participation for malaria elimination in Tafea Province, Vanuatu: Part I. Maintaining motivation for prevention practices in the context of disappearing disease

Proposed interventions

Attempting individual behaviour change

Attempting modification of social norms

Engaging and augmenting social mechanisms

 

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Engaging communities by:

  

   Integrating malaria interventions with activities addressing other community health and disease priorities

 

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   Obtaining multisectoral involvement

 

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   Providing feedback to communities of progress towards elimination

 

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Communication strategy (targeted messages)

  

   Increasing knowledge of malaria

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   Modifying malaria risk perception

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   Modifying perceptions and misconceptions of LLINs

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   Modifying patterns of bed net use (and conveying importance of high community coverage)

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   Promoting LLIN maintenance

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   Addressing gender specific or lifestyle related exposure to mosquitoes/malaria

 

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   Addressing issue of limited LLIN use while travelling

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Communication strategy (channels of communication)

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   Storytelling, community meetings, workshops, school curriculum, community theatre, music, special events, personal selling, mass media, promotional materials and peer-led education

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