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Table 1 Description of conditions and outcome used in community participation in rural health and criteria for assigning value 1

From: Communities on the move: community participation in health in rural territories of Buenaventura District in Colombia

Conditions and outcome

Description

Criteria for assigning value 1

Sense of community

 Community social fabric (CC1)

•Community, family and social networks and conditions for the relationship with a sense of community.•Solidary support within the inhabitants.

• Strong civic commitment (presence of more than 1 indicator)• High confidence and sociability (presence of both indicators)• Strong cooperation (presence of both indicators)

Contextual causal condition

 Trust in institutions (CC2)

• The institution’s ability to influence, from its workspace, the interests of the communitya.

aInfluence is understood as an antecedent or proof of trust placed in institutions [29].

• Medium or high influence degree of influence of institutional actors in the social fabric.

 Implementation of PHC (CC3)

• Presence of elements of the renewed PHC, defined by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).

• Presence of 6 or more elements of the renewed PHC.

 Social Rights Guarantee (CC5)

• Territories with access to social right

• Presence of at least three of the four indicators: employment, housing, education, healthcare.

Historical causal condition

 The trajectory social mobilization (CC4)

•Territories that have historically participated in defense of the collective territory, political participation, and their social rights through a defined organizational agenda.

• Presence of conceptualizations of collective identity by ethnic organizations.• Understandings about power, politics, and the state by community leaders.• The leaders identify the organizational characteristics of the territory.• Community leaders identify social mobilization as a form of struggle.

• Identification of collective identity construction processes by community leaders.

Outcome

Community participation

•Set of territories with active participation processes in their health problems.

•Presence of organizations working for common interests.

•Participation of organizations in decision-making spaces.

•Perceived presence of community leadership.

•Planning and taking actions to improve the health of the territory.

•Identification and prioritization of health needs and problems by the community.

  1. a1, presence of the condition; 0, absence of the condition
  2. Source: Elaboration based in Jaramillo-Mejía, Gil, and Núñez [30]; Mira and Rojas [31]; Parra [32]; Nakamura and Siregar [33]; Téllez [34]; Goodman [25] and Jackson, Cleverly, Poland, Burman, Edwards, and Robertson [35]