As Samantha Power pointed out in her seminal work on Genocide, "A Problem from Hell" there is a "continuum of intervention" options available to American and foreign policy-makers with which to respond to mass atrocities, not all of which must lead to military intervention.
Gene therapy is an extension of drug and surgical treatments, and part of a continuum of medical interventions that introduce or modify DNA or modulate genes' activity.
Every case of maternal death offers a unique opportunity to understand and mitigate weaknesses in the continuum of care, encouraging interventions that are better tailored to local circumstances, and targeted at the most critical parts of the health system [ 7, 8].
These interventions cover the continuum of care, from pre-pregnancy interventions such as family planning, to childhood interventions such as use of antibiotics for pneumonia.
The intervention 'Continuum of care for frail older people' showed that the integrated intervention improved independence in ADL up to twelve months and postponed dependence up to six months.
Combined, these two studies support the hypothesis that effective neonatal resuscitation cannot simply be limited to positive pressure ventilation but must include the full continuum of early neonatal resuscitation interventions.
The interventions were further analyzed according to the nature of the interventions and the continuum of the pre-pregnancy and antenatal period, and also interventions specifically related to monitoring in pregnancy and intrapartum care.
This review also reveals significant gaps in current knowledge of interventions spanning the continuum of maternal and fetal outcomes, and the critical need to generate further high-quality evidence for promising interventions.
A comprehensive package of interventions spanning the continuum of care from the home to the hospital, with a robust community mobilization component, has the potential to significantly improve both maternal and fetal/newborn outcomes.
We defined a search strategy, informed by a survey of global MNH professionals, to capture the variety of interventions within the continuum of care period from pregnancy to postnatal care.
