From: Encyclopedia of Mental Health (Second Edition), 2016. Conclusion: Our review suggests that multi-layered community-based interventions, targeting young married women, their families and the health system can improve utilization of reproductive health services among young couples in resource-constrained settings. Interventions should involve co-design with homeless service users; multidisciplinary working, collaboration with dental practitioners, and working with educational establishments. Authors; Authors and affiliations; Tracey A. Revenson; Kathleen M. Schiaffino; Chapter. There are inherent limitations and strengths to this methodology for evaluation of complex health care interventions. Several recommendations were extracted. Therefore, we conducted a comprehensive review worldwide to close this gap, including a wide range of health … These studies were predominantly evaluations of community-based dental services or other oral health interventions. Community-Based Health Interventions in an Institutional Context examines challenges of "institutionalizing" community-based health care. Community-Based Intervention. A paucity of community-based data was found from developing-country studies on health status impact for many interventions currently being considered for inclusion in neonatal health programs. Some successful strategies to optimise effectiveness of the interventions are: engaging local staff in the intervention delivery, using acceptable and accessible community locations, and focussing on cultural‐specificity. Community-based youth programs are often implemented to fill the void in adolescents' lives that results from extremely stressed families and to provide developmental experiences typically offered by schools, health programs, or employment training agencies. Method. You can access these resources in two ways: Using the menu at the top, select a chapter. We analyze the effects on fertility outcomes of a large-scale community-based health worker program that aims to reach remote areas distant from health facilities in Madagascar. • Strategies should be identified that allow people with chronic NCDs to avoid health care facilities unless they have acute symptoms or other urgent needs. Community-based health interventions and community health workers can be an alternative to deficient formal health care provision among remote populations. Data sources were MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, SCOPUS, the COCHRANE library and the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet. Previous systematic reviews of the impact of multi-component community-based health promotion interventions on reducing health inequalities by socio-economic status (SES) were restricted to physical activity and smoking behavior, and revealed limited and rather disillusioning evidence. Read the original article in full on Wellcome Open Research: Engaging community health workers, technology, and youth in the COVID-19 response with concurrent critical care capacity building: A protocol for an integrated community and health system intervention to reduce mortality related to COVID-19 infection in Western Kenya RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS —Recently published findings about the potential to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes with intensive lifestyle interventions prompted a literature search for community-based diabetes prevention interventions. A public health intervention is any effort or policy that attempts to improve mental and physical health on a population level. While the community-based or localized model is growing in popularity and importance in the United States, in practice it must often be brought in to larger institutions in order to grow to scale. Although the extent to which effectiveness can be determined with hard predictive … OBJECTIVE —To conduct a literature review of community-based interventions intended to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes. Community based interventions have been developed with the aims of redefining and transforming masculinity toward more healthy ideals, inclusive of a wider range of human characteristics and identities. Although barriers and levers to engagement with public health programmes are well documented, there is a lack of proven strategies in the literature addressing these. Additionally, non-health-worker-based community engagement strategies such as women’s groups are important community-based interventions within PHC. This study evaluates the impact of health interventions on the knowledge, perception, attitude, and misconception of HIV infection in Bonny Kingdom of Rivers State, Nigeria.