02452nam a22002537a 4500999001300000001001300013003000400026005001700030008004100047040001300088245012500101520159300226580006201819650006301881650002801944650002301972700002001995700002202015700002702037700003102064700001702095856007902112942000702191  c665d665D0001E000013DOH20200806155502.0200521b        ph ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aDOHcDOH 0aConceptualizing and applying a minimum basic needs approach in southern Philippines /cHeinonen, Tuula [and five others]3 aThis study, a collaboration between Canadian and Filipino researchers, focuses on how the national government's Minimum Basic Needs (MBN) Approach has been implemented at the local level in some selected sites in Region XI on the Philippine island of Mindanao. This case study of MBN implementation focuses on the experiences of three municipalities and three barangays (villages) within them. The research explores, through interviews and group discussions, what the mayors, technical working groups and volunteer health workers in these areas thought about MBN and how they participated in the initiative. The objectives of the study were: to explore models of MBN data utilization at the municipal and barangay levels; to understand how the MBN data guided decision-making about community priorities and resource allocation; to examine the role that community volunteers played in promoting the use of MBN data, and in community health and development activities which ensued; and to determine what factors challenged or encouraged the use of MBN data for social development at the barangay level. In all the sites, MBN had some impact, most often due to methods of concentrating information on unmet basic needs locally and making use of it in planning and project development processes. The findings show that although there is still some way to go before MBN is effectively integrated into local planning and project development, some responses to problems have been implemented and innovative projects were undertaken or being considered.uhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10837043/  aIn: Health Policy and Planning, 2000 15 (2) pages 194-206 2aCommunity Health Planningxorganization and administration 2aCommunity Participation 2aProgram Evaluation1 aHeinonen, Tuula1 aMercader, Mariper1 aQuianzon, Josephine L.1 aTorralba, Magdalena Penera1 aBalauis, Leo  uhttps://academic.oup.com/heapol/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/heapol/15.2.194  cJA