He sees social work as being about helping to rebuild communities rather than short-term interventions.
"Short-term interventions like that do pay dividends pretty quickly," he said.
Most health services are sought as short-term interventions with the aim of supporting people until they are well again, or are able to manage their condition alone.
It's felt that these forms of advocacy can achieve good outcomes for people, often on a longer term basis, compared with some short-term interventions carried out by formal advocates.
The focus was on discerning the transgressional elements for moving from short-term interventions to long-term change.
This suggests that long-term social safety net programs are best suited for rural areas, while short-term interventions are equally needed in urban and rural areas.
Feasible short-term interventions by traveling medical teams include diagnosis and treatment of acute conditions, periodic deworming, catch-up vaccines and short-term treatment of anemia.
Other research studies have similarly sown relatively modest impacts from short-term interventions (e.g. Quinn et al. 2011 Faigin and Stein 2008); stigmatizing attitudes can be obstinate, consequently current recommendations call for continuous, long-term stigma-reduction campaigns rather than single, short-term interventions (Stuart et al. 2012).
However, there is also another solution, in which transmission of the data is performed throughout the day and the system is used for the short-term interventions.
Thus, ALMP funds appear to have a more or less instantaneous influence on the NEET-probability of youths and can therefore be seen as a policy instrument effective for short-term interventions.
Moreover, this study also confirms that before KD short-term interventions, the migraine patients lacked habituation in response to visual (VEP N1-P1 slope: + 0.09) and somatosensory (SSEP N20-P25 slope: + 0.32) repetitive stimulations [19, 20].
