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A causal loop analysis of the sustainability of integrated community case management in Rwanda

Publish Date: March 2015
Author: Eric Sarriot, Melanie Morrow, Anne Langston, Jennifer Weiss, Justine Landegger, Laban Tsuma

This MCSP co-authored article in the journal Social Science and Medicine examines the expansion of community health services in Rwanda that has come with the national scale up of integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) of malaria, pneumonia and diarrhea. The authors used a sustainability assessment framework as part of a large-scale project evaluation to identify factors affecting iCCM sustainability, and causal-loop analysis to identify systems determinants of iCCM sustainability from a national systems perspective.

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