Community Resilience to Cholera Epidemics in Uganda: A Realist-informed review of Vulnerability and Intervention mechanisms

This dataset supports a realist-informed literature review examining mechanisms that contribute to or reduce vulnerability to cholera outbreaks in Uganda. The data were extracted from documents, including peer-reviewed articles, grey literature, and program evaluations. A six-stage data synthesis approach was used, guided by realist evaluation (Pawson & Tilley, 1997) and resilience frameworks (Blanchet et al., 2017).

The dataset includes:
1. An Excel matrix of 31 studies capturing Context–Mechanism–Outcome (CMO) patterns
2. Synthesized CMOC configurations
3. Thematic groupings of resilience and vulnerability mechanisms

References and coding for absorptive, adaptive, and transformative capacities
Data are provided in open formats (.xlsx and .docx), under a CC-BY 4.0 license, and assigned a persistent DOI through this repository. This dataset is intended to facilitate further research into community-led and systems-level responses to health epidemics in fragile settings.
Keywords:
Cholera, Resilience, Uganda, Realist Review, Community Engagement, WASH, CMO Framework, Public Health, Epidemics, Vulnerability Mechanisms