These inequities are compounded by reduced access to preventive and curative interventions.
The variable 'type of intervention' consists of universally preventive interventions, targeted prevention/early interventions and curative interventions.
Yet, although our quantitative findings show a growth in the number of targeted and preventive interventions in the 'general population' of interventions, this growth is not significantly different from the growth of other types of programs (curative interventions).
Of the 169 (theoretically) effective interventions included in the database of the Netherlands Youth Institute, 44 are preventive interventions (26.0 %), 72 are targeted preventive interventions (42.6 %) and 53 interventions are curative interventions (31.4 %).
Curative interventions are interventions for parenting situations in which problems have already occurred, and the interventions specifically aim to tackle these problems, for example, Multisystemic Therapy that helps parents in dealing with children who are exhibiting serious externalizing problem behaviour such as drugs abuse, truancy and aggression.
This coincides with an increase in curative interventions (see Table 4) as well as with the implementation of the as-as-as policies (Matthijs and Vincken 1997) and can be explained by a change in ideas in which treatment for serious problems had to be organized "as close to home as possible", meaning within the family.
Both basic primary health care and nutrition interventions show evidence of cost-effectiveness, yet in many countries many families lack access to critical supports in the first 1,000 days such as nutritional supplements, clean water and sanitation, prenatal and postnatal care, birth attendance, and preventive and curative interventions.
Universal coverage would imply that everyone would have the needed preventive and curative interventions (100% and thus fully 'equitable'equitable
With the availability of new preventive and curative interventions, global malaria control has been strengthened significantly in recent years.
Whilst CHWs may deliver both preventive and curative interventions, this review focuses on the impact CHWs have when delivering curative interventions.
The least cost-effective interventions of the list incorporated only health facility-based curative interventions.
