Services offering early assistance after childbirth, especially home-visiting programs (e.g. the KfdN prevention project, or comparable projects), which have proved effective in relation to children's social development and reducing dysfunctionality of mother-child interaction [ 33], can be a sensible addition in the outreach context.
In this context, community outreach organisations and projects of intervention that deal with diversity-related tensions are essential.
The Center aims to further contribute to its local and regional context through outreach and capacity building efforts.
In the urban context, service outreach should also be targeted at organised groups and community gatherings such as market places, churches, and mosques.
With careful tailoring of behaviour change messages to the local context, government outreach workers can become effective brokers of positive change and significant improvements in home newborn care and neonatal mortality are possible.
We sought to reduce clinical inertia and enhance the efficiency of outreach efforts in the context of a successful population management program by focusing attention more closely on patients most likely to benefit from treatment intensification.
It does not, however, track these pathways to determine whether different forms of outreach work in the context of a primary prevention programme impact positively on initial and long-term engagement with the health service or the myriad of interventions provided to ameliorate the social and structural determinants of ill-health.
Variables related to the context of the repair included whether the repair was conducted as part of a training session or whether it was conducted as part of an outreach or 'camp' setting by a team of visiting surgeons.
Ma and colleagues in developing a successful hepatitis B intervention acknowledged and addressed the cultural context in their outreach to the Korean community and the design of their intervention.
In this issue of GHSP, David Hubacher et al., provide good evidence that this can indeed be the case, in the context of mobile outreach for both IUDs and implants by Marie Stopes Kenya.
