Sentences with phrase «intervention on a population level»

It certainly is ironic that, while the gold standard of medical research is the randomized controlled trial, which generally looks at the risks and benefits of an intervention on a population level, it is individual women who have to make the decisions — and individual women may not always find these kind of data helpful.

Not exact matches

Interventions to improve the feeding of LBW infants are likely to improve the immediate and longer - term health and well - being of the individual infant and have a significant impact on neonatal and infant mortality levels in the population.

A number of interventions at the individual, family, health care provider and community levels that could be useful in helping to ameliorate the negative effects of stress on low - income and minority populations and potentially address some of the health disparities are identified in the report.

«This data provides potential leverage points for both community - level interventions and advocacy for this population, particularly related to transactional sex and education, and will aid HIV prevention efforts that seek to address the contextual constraints on individual risk behavior,» said Stevens.

«If true, then this illustrates how medical interventions have resulted in significant improvements in health on a population level.»

«At present, there is little direct evidence demonstrating that electronic alcohol screening and brief counseling intervention has a meaningful population - level effect on excessive alcohol consumption or related harms in any group, and therefore its utility as a stand - alone public health approach is in doubt.

Ladd - Acosta's research is focused on integrating genome - wide genotyping, genome - scale epigenetic and prenatal environmental exposure data, at a population level, to understand how these factors influence autism risk and to identify biologic pathways that could serve as molecular targets for prevention and intervention efforts.

Through long - established collaborations in Durban and Kimberley, these studies in particular seek to define: the immune responses that are effective in control of HIV infection; the impact of HLA - mediated selection pressure on HIV at the individual and population level; the mechanisms of HIV non-pathogenicity; the nature and consequences of ontogeny of the virus - specific immune response; and finally the prospects for interventions including antiretroviral therapy, alone or in combination with broadly neutralising antibodies and / or T - cell vaccines, to achieve HIV eradication.

An editorial in the American Journal of Psychiatry offered a very powerful comment on three recent food - mood studies: «It is both compelling and daunting to consider that dietary intervention at an individual or population level could reduce rates of psychiatric disorders.

A population - based randomized controlled trial of the effect of combining a pedometer with an intervention toolkit on physical activity among individuals with low levels of physical activity or fitness.

Completed coursework with a concentration on the integrative theoretical approaches to psychological interventions to change behaviour and cognition at the individual, group and population level.

Whereas an overall objective may be to enhance attachment quality, other goals of improving quality of life, increasing life skills and reducing symptomatology may differ, depending on the intervention and the population served, as well as the level of fidelity to the treatment model.