UNICEF believes CLTS is one of the most effective and sustainable methods of ensuring that sanitation interventions succeed in reaching whole communities.
However, concerns remain about whether the intervention will succeed in reaching poor, rural communities [ 3].
Moreover, it is challenging to motivate people, especially people with health problems, to participate in physical activities [ 3, 21], although, based on a literature review [ 22], there is evidence that primary care-based physical activity interventions are effective in reaching physically inactive adults.
While eHealth – the transfer of health care and health resources via information and communication technologies – has been recognized for increasing access to and quality of health services, not all eHealth interventions have been successful in reaching and engaging patients.
These interventions will be helpful in reaching the sixth millennium development goals to improve child health [ 38].
If the intervention had been more successful in reaching all targeted patients, and/or provided more timely updates, it is possible that we would have observed more favorable results.
Meanwhile, the NATO intervention in Libya reached a successful if bloody outcome, and the troops are coming home from Iraq.
Instead, we chose to test a pragmatic sequential intervention, taking into account the difficulties in reaching our patient population.
Had the data about local communities' knowledge and practices been generated and used, advocacy and communication interventions could have been more effective in reaching zero-dose children [ 43].
The behavioural interventions in REACH are based on Bandura's [ 9] social cognitive theory (SCT), and Epstein's [ 11] model of multidisciplinary, family-based interventions.
