The WHO guidelines 'preventing early pregnancy and poor reproductive outcomes among adolescents in developing countries' published in 2011 identified a range of interventions to prevent early pregnancy, including strategies to reduce adolescent marriage and pregnancies, increase contraceptive use, reduce coerced sex and unsafe abortion and increase the use of maternity healthcare services.
They target people who would be admitted acutely to hospital without their intervention, providing intensive home treatment whenever feasible with 24 hour availability, daily or twice daily home visits, control over access to in-patient beds and a range of interventions focused both on symptoms and immediate social problems.
A review of patient records at one of the first urban academic-nurse-managed clinics in America reported a range of interventions delivered to 334 urban Native Americans [ 67].
We have examined the impact that non-pharmaceutical interventions may have on the course of a pandemic in a systematic manner, investigating a range of interventions in isolation and in combination.
In an attempt to increase physical activity levels in the general population, a range of interventions have been developed and implemented and systematic review suggests that interventions that are theory driven and use a counselling style to change behaviour have evidence of successful behaviour change [ 14].
As one of the few donors present in Myanmar during that period, UNICEF supported a range of interventions in HIV prevention.
Similarly, another trial in the USA looked at a range of interventions among African Americans to increased recruitment rates for cancer screening trials [ 11].
We have tried a range of interventions in the lab (mostly using baggage X-rays in work collaborating with the US Department of Homeland Security).
Practitioners aiming to prevent problems in this way are encouraged to consider all potentially viable solutions at the response phase and to implement a range of interventions in parallel.
