There is urgent need, therefore, to increase domestic and external investment to scale up coverage of existing cost-effective, multisectoral women's health interventions to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality.
In this case, we would expect the existing evidence base on effectiveness of interventions to (roughly) apply, and can conclude that much of the expected increased burden could be avoided through scaling up existing cost-effective interventions.
Feasible exposure denotes the lowest exposure that has been observed in comparable populations and the cost-effective exposure is that would result if all existing cost-effective interventions are applied [ 68, 69].
Most chronic diseases are caused by a few modifiable risk factors (tobacco use, unhealthy diet, and lack of physical activity) that can be prevented and controlled with existing cost-effective interventions (3).
To begin to address the above challenges, the highest priority areas for mental health research have been identified as health policy and systems research, delivery of existing cost-effective interventions in low-resource contexts, and epidemiological research on child and adolescent mental health and substance abuse.
The Women's Lifestyle Study was therefore designed using an existing cost-effective intervention, with extended patient support (nine months, instead of three months with a basic green prescription) and the addition of a face-to-face meeting with the nurse prescriber at six months.
Reducing the current action level to 100 Bq/m might make a policy for existing homes cost effective for areas with a mean indoor radon concentration of 60 Bq/m.
To achieve meaningful reductions, it will be necessary to develop technologies that can be applied to both greenfield projects and to the existing fleet through cost effective retrofits.
Data linkage of available existing data is cost effective as it includes a variety of data sources for a large sample size representative of the population.
To develop new surgical treatment methods and to test existing methods, cost-effective, reliable, and predictable large animal models are needed.
