Community engagement

How it is used

Seen as essential for building trust, especially in outbreaks and vaccination campaigns. Programmes involve community health workers, local leaders and youth groups. Related terms include community participation and co-production.

Example sentences

1. Strong community engagement helped end the Ebola outbreak in the district.

2. Community engagement starts with listening, not with telling people what to do.

Common collocations

• community engagement strategy
• community health workers
• engage communities
• community participation

Related terms

• risk communicationThe real-time exchange of information, advice and opinions between experts, officials and the public about a health threat, so that people can make informed decisions to protect themselves.
• health promotionThe process of enabling people and communities to increase control over their health and improve it, through education, supportive environments, healthy policies and community action.
• interventionA planned action, programme or policy designed to improve health or change a health-related behaviour or condition in a group of people.
• primary health careEssential, community-based health care that is people's first point of contact with the health system, covering prevention, treatment of common conditions and health promotion close to where they live.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• community engagement · Social Work

More terms: Health Promotion and Behaviour

• health literacy
• behaviour change
• harm reduction
• health education
• tobacco control