title: Measuring participation: its use as a managerial tool for district health planners based on a case study in Tanzania.
abstract: While community participation has become widely practised there has been little systematic assessment of the processes involved. A framework has been developed to measure participation on a number of dimensions and this article applies this framework to a project in Tanzania. The framework helps to systematically assess the nature and extent of community participation, but a number of problems were identified as well. Suggestions are made as how to improve upon the framework and make it a useful tool for managers.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Health and Social Research, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: D H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.forename: S B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Rifkin
mesh_terms: D018672:Community Health Planning; D003256:Community Participation; D006126:Group Processes; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011635:Public Health Administration; D013636:Tanzania