PLoS Medicine
(Accessed 26 June 2011: database unavailable)
http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/browse.action?field=date

Scaling Up Global Health Interventions: A Proposed Framework for Success
Gavin Yamey Essay, published 28 Jun 2011
doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001049

Summary Points
– The rise in international aid to fund large-scale global health programs over the last decade has catalyzed interest in improving the science of scale-up.
– This Essay draws upon key themes in the emerging science of large-scale change in global health to propose a framework for explaining successful scale-up.
– Success factors for scaling up were identified from interviews with implementation experts and from the published literature.
– These factors include the following: choosing a simple intervention widely agreed to be valuable, strong leadership and governance, active engagement of a range of implementers and of the target community, tailoring the scale-up approach to the local situation, and incorporating research into implementation.