These case studies represent two different types of interventions: a hospital or clinically based intervention for the treatment of eclampsia and a public health or community based intervention in the case of malaria control.
Furthermore, threats to independence, prior identities and established ways of self-managing, perceived technical competence, and how technology disrupts healthcare practices, were cited as reasons for non-participation or withdrawal from a recent trial for mobile-phone based intervention in the UK [ 22].
Implementation of workplace based interventions in China is not easy given the rapid changes in economic policy and sudden changes in human resource demand at factory level.
Consequently, experts have advocated for rapid scale-up of these evidence based interventions in developing countries.
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The public health professionals and policy makers should establish substantial efforts to formulate the public health policy and community based intervention in order to curb the upcoming possible high mortality and morbidity due to CVD among low-income urban dwellers.
Drawing conclusions from the literature on psychologically based intervention in diabetes is difficult.
Based on the few successful preschool interventions, 16 17 additional approaches to enhance parental collaboration such as combining school based interventions with interventions in the health setting and community actions and complementing such programmes with wider environmental and policy intervention should be further evaluated in future studies.
Such a package consisting of low cost, evidence based interventions for use in the home the home has tremendous potential to improve health status and decrease MMR and NMR.
Our findings contribute to a growing body of literature examining the impact of community based interventions on child health in the context of perinatal depression [ 32, 43].
