Strengthening adolescent agency for optimal health outcomes.

argue that agency and health are intimately connected; achieving best health outcomes for adolescents will require strengthening their agency

Community capacity as means to improved health practices and an end in itself: evidence from a multi-stage study.

This three-phase study characterized, validated, and applied community capacity domains in a health communication project evaluation in Zambia. Phase I explored community capacity domains from community members' perspectives (16 focus groups, 14 in-depth interviews, 4 sites. These were validated in Phase II with 720 randomly selected adults.