Table 1 Summary of propositions for multiple interventions in community health

Identify intervention options

Integrating theory

1

Relevant theories are integrated to contribute to a multi-level and multi-strategy intervention plan.

Optimize potential impact of interventions

Creating synergy

2

Combinations and sequences of interventions within and across levels of the system are used to create synergy.

3

Interventions create synergy through coordinating and integrating intervention efforts across sectors and jurisdictions.

Achieving adequate implementation

4

Implementation of the interventions is sufficient to achieve population impacts.

5

The timing, the effort, and the features of the intervention strategies are tailored to the implementation context.

Creating enabling structures and conditions

6

Relevant enabling structures and conditions at professional, organizational, community, and other system levels support the interventions.

Monitor process, impact, spin-offs and sustainability

Modifying interventions during implementation

7

Interventions are continuously adapted to the contextual environment (e.g., setting, leadership, structures, culture, etc.), while maintaining integrity with theoretical underpinnings.

8

Evaluation feedback is used to design interventions and to modify them throughout implementation.

Facilitating sustainability

9

Sustainability – a focus on continuing and extending benefits of interventions – is addressed during planning, implementation, and maintenance phases of interventions.