But the islands of Zanzibar did not start implementing the IDD interventions based on the assumption that the population living there had frequent access to sea foods that are rich in iodine.
That study argued that caseload midwifery appeared to alter some of the pathways that recurrently contribute to increased obstetric intervention, working on the assumption that women will labour more effectively, need to stay in hospital less time and feel a stronger sense of satisfaction and personal control if they have the opportunity to get to know their midwife at the beginning of pregnancy.
Therefore, interventions are based on the assumption that individuals act irrationally.
Although varied, these interventions are premised on the assumption that natural resources are most effectively managed and preserved while benefiting livelihoods if the market-incentives of a liberalised economy are correctly in place.
The baby-massage intervention is based on the assumption that general tactile stimulation is important for development.
The amount of unobserved compliers in the control group can be estimated using the proportion of compliers in the intervention group based on the assumption that the proportion of compliers is balanced across the treatment arms [ 5, 6].
The validity of the estimated intervention effect relies on the assumption that (adjusting for observable patient characteristics) the underlying time trends in the outcomes would have been similar for the intervention- and comparison-unit patients in the absence of an intervention.
Unfortunately, the studies investigating this have tested only short interventions [21], [22] premised on the assumption that infants of HIV-infected women could be safely weaned early.
35, 36 At last, because our design aimed at evaluating short-term response to antihypertensive pharmacotherapy, interventions were performed based on the assumption that most treatments would not achieve optimal endpoints, which may have limited the extent of the cytokine-lowering effect observed in our setting.
However, our early intervention was intentionally predicated on the assumption that it would be better to attempt to block the initial development of enteropathy rather than attempt to redress the fully established gut damage, which is slow to repair.
