Community-based interventions - Report

Community-based interventions in the review (also known as whole-of-community interventions) are defined as:

• integrated and comprehensive
• involving a range of locations
• employing multiple interventions
• including multiple individuals, organisations and groups
• involving the community in planning, implementation, management and evaluation
• including multiple individual level intervention strategies;

Defining the parameters of community in a community-based intervention is a strongly debated topic among experts in the field. This review synthesises the evidence and provides a comprehensive framework for defining community-based interventions and the evidence to support implementation.