Community involvement in tuberculosis care and prevention : towards partnerships for health : guiding principles and recommendations based on a WHO review

Overview

The dignity and value of each person is the basis of rights and responsibilities that the society affi rms and accepts to make progress towards a common good that will benefit all its members. The empowerment of people who recognize their rights and assume responsibility for their own health has at least two fundamental dimensions: solidarity, as a moral responsibility to share the needs and problems of others and to recognize and defend the dignity of each person, and subsidiarity, whereby higher institutions or governments ensure support to and promote the development of community initiatives.

The recommendations of this publication should guide the actions that public health bodies and civil society can take to plan, implement, scale up and evaluate community initiatives.