The 2010 Lancet Commission Review of progress on the MDGs notes that "Except for financing initiatives initiated in very recent years, there is very little evidence of wide-scale interventions to increase the quantity or quality of, or the access to [skilled birth attendance].
The findings assert the need for wide-scale intervention in resource-limited contexts such as Swaziland, where diagnostic and treatment facilities and health personnel are lacking.
The agency will deploy as soon as possible counsellors to assist with wide scale psychosocial interventions.
Particularly in resource-limited settings, it may be unrealistic to model the cost-effectiveness of wide scale provision of an intervention based on incremental patient costs (intervention costs at the point of delivery) at a single site with relatively developed infrastructure.
Among those working with children, there is more talk about trauma and toxic stress -- and more talk than change in practice or wide scale adoption of proven interventions.
Better reporting of the supports provided in effectiveness trials will allow for informed decisions to be made about financial and resource implications for wide scale implementation of effective interventions.
With over 85% of Australian adults visiting a general practitioner each year, the general practice setting has enormous potential to facilitate wide scale delivery of health behaviour interventions.
These results highlight the need for rigorous, large scale, high quality independent studies to evaluate healthcare interventions before wide scale adoption.
The impact of these wide-scale medical interventions on mothers is both visible and cumulative.
With that said, we fully support any method that has been proven, through a rigorous scientific method, to be an effective and safe intervention on a wide scale.
In an attempt to better understand the costs of operationalising this intervention on a district wide scale, a model was develop to scale up costs (both fixed and variable) and explore potential savings from economies of scale.
