Like other government bodies at the time (such as those for agriculture, livestock, wildlife, fisheries or water), it integrated scientific investigations and interventions, and collaborated with other ministries (see Ombongi 2010; Malowany et al. 2011).
To sustain life-saving interventions, UNICEF is collaborating with multi-sectoral partners to support the Government, focusing in particular on the most vulnerable counties.
In the delayed intervention group, 13 practices received visits during the intervention period, either because they were collaborating with practices in the intervention group or because they did not agree to delay their participation in the intervention.
Pharmacist interventions were classified using a priori defined categories based on a recent systematic review of pharmacist care of patients with heart failure (21) as pharmacist-directed care (pharmacist initiated and managed interventions) and pharmacist collaborative care (pharmacist collaborated in interventions conducted by a multidisciplinary healthcare team).
GPs in the intervention group will collaborate with two practice nurses (PNs) specifically trained for this study; see intervention for more details.
In half of the organizations, mothers were recruited by an ethnically matched recruiter, a key figure within the collaborating community organizations (intervention condition).
Outcome assessors reviewing data in order to determine derived, scored or arbitrated outcomes are all blinded to patient identity, intervention group allocation and the collaborating site managing the patients whose data they are reviewing.
Organisation refers to the extent to which new community interventions integrate or collaborate with pre-existing community structures or networks.
The checklists for monitoring intervention activities were also completed by public health officers collaborating with the committee, in all offices and factories of intervention.
'Shared care' with MH and SUD services collaborating to coordinate delivery of interventions is considered the best option within these parameters.
