A conceptualisation of scale-up and sustainability of social innovations in global health: a narrative review and integrative framework for action

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Figure 1. Process of searching, acquiring and interpreting the literature adapted to [43].

Table 1. Overview of keywords used in searching and acquiring literature.

Social innovation	‘Social Innovation*’ OR ‘Social Change’ OR ‘Community based intervention’
Scale-up	(‘Scale up’ OR Scal* up) OR ‘scaling up’ OR ‘scale’ OR ‘Diffusion of Innovation’
Sustainability	‘Sustainability’ OR ‘Confirmation’ ‘continuation’ OR ‘Durability’ OR ‘Incorporation’ OR ‘Institutionalization’ OR ‘Routinization’ OR ‘Stabilization’
Global health	‘Global health’ OR ‘Public Health’ OR (‘Developing countries or developing nations or third world or low-income countries’)

Figure 2. Scale-up and sustainability definitions and conceptualisations.

Figure 3. An integrative conceptual framework of scale-up and sustainability.

The grey colour represents the elements coming from the systems thinking approach presented in the manuscript background. The other boxes represent the different elements found in our literature review. It must be understood that all the elements are interconnected and influence each other. The elements with * presented in the dotted box represent other processes that can take place during the scale-up and sustainability processes.

Boell SK, Cecez-Kecmanovic D. A hermeneutic approach for conducting literature reviews and literature searches. Commun Assoc Inf Syst. 2014;34:12. doi: 10.17705/1CAIS.03412

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