• If the result is negative, we are left wondering whether the intervention is inherently ineffective (either because the intervention was inadequately developed or because all similar interventions are ineffective), whether it was inadequately applied or applied in an inappropriate context, or whether the trial used an inappropriate design, comparison groups or outcomes. (bmj.com)
  • Most randomised controlled trials focus on outcomes, not on the processes involved in implementing an intervention. (bmj.com)
  • Conventional RCTs evaluate the effects of interventions on prespecified health outcomes. (bmj.com)
  • While it is recognized that "one size does not fit all", the discussions held during the special session and its outcome document highlighted the importance of moving towards a more balanced and comprehensive approach in global drug policies that highlights public health and development outcomes, consistent with the original purpose of the three international drug control conventions to promote the health and welfare of humankind. (who.int)
  • In the words of Roy Bhaskar, social causation takes place in an open system in which we cannot arrive at confident predictions of particular social outcomes. (blogspot.com)
  • In place of general theories and comprehensive social laws, it is argued here that we are best advised to seek out particular causal mechanisms that underlie various social outcomes of interest. (blogspot.com)
  • GRASSP is UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti's new research programme examining gender-responsive and age sensitive social protection systems to enhance gender equality outcomes, and is funded by the UK's Department for International Development (DfID) and other partners. (unicef-irc.org)
  • Social protection can reduce income poverty and food and economic insecurity, address financial barriers to accessing social services, and promote positive development outcomes throughout the life course - particularly for women and girls. (unicef-irc.org)
  • NADPI aims to bring technical detail into the policy debate to ensure that choices are evidence-based and outcomes pragmatic and constructive. (ungassondrugs.org)
  • From this research, there is no evidence that voluntary competitive sport-for-development interventions improve physical fitness or mental health outcomes in post-conflict settings. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Evaluation of a social protection policy on tuberculosis treatment outcomes: A prospective cohort study. (bvsalud.org)
  • however, there is little evidence to evaluate the outcomes of socioeconomic support interventions. (bvsalud.org)
  • The CCT appears to be a valuable health policy intervention to improve TB treatment outcomes. (bvsalud.org)
  • ABSTRACT There is compelling evidence from high-quality studies that mental health promotion and primary prevention interventions can reduce the risk of mental disorders, enhance protective factors for good mental and physical health, and lead to lasting positive effects on a range of social and economic outcomes. (who.int)
  • Process evaluations within trials explore the implementation, receipt, and setting of an intervention and help in the interpretation of the outcome results. (bmj.com)
  • 4 Process evaluation can help to distinguish between interventions that are inherently faulty (failure of intervention concept or theory) and those that are badly delivered (implementation failure). (bmj.com)
  • The purpose of the special session was to review the progress made in the implementation of the Political Declaration and Plan of Action on International Cooperation towards an Integrated and Balanced Strategy to Counter the World Drug Problem,2 including an assessment of the achievements and challenges in countering the world drug problem within the framework of the three international drug control conventions and other relevant United Nations instruments. (who.int)
  • It reaffirmed the need to strengthen cooperation among the United Nations entities, within their respective mandates, in their efforts to support Member States in the implementation of international drug control treaties and to promote the protection of and respect for human rights and the dignity of all individuals in the context of drug programmes, strategies and policies. (who.int)
  • Nevertheless, actions to reduce drug use through enforcement of the prohibition of the non- medical use of internationally controlled substances and related law enforcement strategies have largely dominated the implementation of national drug control strategies to date. (who.int)
  • and (3) development and implementation of workplace interventions including health and safety programs as well as other social and economic policies. (cdc.gov)
  • August 5, 2022 - Implementation Details for the NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy. (nih.gov)
  • So the hard question is this: to what extent is it at all possible for social science research to provide a confident basis for the design and implementation of social policies to address important social problems? (blogspot.com)
  • Structured as a socio-ecological framework, our approach presents three interconnected change pathways - at the individual, household and societal level - through which gender-responsive social protection can contribute to gender-transformative results, along with tailored design and implementation features, and underpinned by a set of change levers that existing evidence suggests can strengthen the gender-responsiveness of social protection systems. (unicef-irc.org)
  • We are a learning network responsible for designing and sometimes leading evaluation efforts and/or dissemination and implementation activities throughout KP regions - acting as a resource for regions involved in … 2005-09-01 The Social Interventions Research and Evaluation Network (SIREN) at UCSF was launched in the spring of 2016 to synthesize, disseminate, and catalyze rigorous research in this field. (web.app)
  • Outcome-oriented Objective: More health care system leaders will report having and applying evidence to inform implementation decisions around social prescribing intervention programs. (web.app)
  • Eugenics discourse was so popular that those who participated in the enactment of these laws and the implementation of policies derived from these laws acted with the conviction that it was a necessary and desirable project, fully justified on moral grounds. (encyclopedia.com)
  • It also covers infrastructure development for disease control and health promotion, and relevant aspects of program design, implementation and evaluation. (edu.au)
  • This special collection features 5 articles authored by CORD grantees and focuses on the real-world implementation of evidence-based interventions across multiple settings (5-9). (cdc.gov)
  • The collection explores and identifies factors that are critical to stakeholder engagement and implementation of interventions in racially and ethnically diverse communities. (cdc.gov)
  • The National Cancer Institute defines implementation science as the "study of methods to promote the adoption and integration of evidence-based practices, interventions and policies into routine health care and public health settings in order to improve our impact on population health" (10). (cdc.gov)
  • This collection helps further our understanding of how interventions are adopted and integrated into existing organizations such as schools, health care facilities, and child care centers and delves into the factors necessary to build support and engagement for successful implementation. (cdc.gov)
  • Current insights indicate that Web-based delivery may enhance the implementation of brief alcohol interventions. (jmir.org)
  • The implementation of these interventions in social economy companies was studied. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Personal factors (such as attitudes towards HP, behavioural control, social norms and moral responsibility) were asked to the person responsible for implementation of HP interventions. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Sheltered and social workshops are open to HP interventions, but more can be done to optimize the implementation. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This paper reviews the available evidence in order to guide the implementation of mental health promotion and prevention interventions in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. (who.int)
  • community to be healthy and well.4 The social determinants of health include factors Interventions to Address the Relationship Between Food Insecurity and Nutrition & Obesity Policy Research and Evaluation Network (n.d. (web.app)
  • Down Oct 22, 2019 Social Determinants of Health, Payers For instance, The Social Interventions Research and Evaluation Network's Gravity Project will identify Sep 18, 2019 Social Intervention Research and Evaluation Network. (web.app)
  • It aims to ensure students can work productively in public health in an international context, particularly in developing countries, through an understanding of the distribution and determinants of disease and health and the social and cultural contexts in which disease and health are embedded. (edu.au)
  • Training activities will center around improving health and social workers' abilities to screen for substance use disorders, implement early interventions, better manage at-risk populations, and formulate health policies. (paho.org)
  • A third recently funded Horizon Europe project, ARM, led by Lovise Aahlen at the Christian Michaelsen Institute, will investigate how authoritarian governments seek to control and exert influence through their diaspora populations in Europe. (uib.no)
  • Even though India has prioritised interventions among key sub populations (like sex workers, men who have sex with men, injecting drug users, migrants), one of the larger goals that still remains is to ensure that community itself leads the targeted interventions, with NGOs acting as only gatekeepers, feels Gangakhedkar. (theseoultimes.com)
  • To date, no study has investigated the effectiveness of Web-based brief alcohol interventions in reducing alcohol use in younger populations. (jmir.org)
  • Its meaning varies depending on cultures, local beliefs, and practices.2 As a result, policymakers need to plan and implement relevant policies and measures based on the mental health representations of various populations, within different countries. (lu.se)
  • This prioritized research is organized in a conceptually sequential structure across the public health model, such that all research efforts ultimately inform more effective and equitable approaches to prevention and intervention. (cdc.gov)
  • The project also supports PAHO's work to strengthen public health approaches to address substance use problems and will foster greater collaboration between PAHO and other relevant partners, such as the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) of the Organization of American States, UNODC, the Colombo Plan, and the Ibero-American Network of Non-Governmental Organizations Working on Drug Dependence (RIOD). (paho.org)
  • Neoliberal approaches recommend low state intervention in favour of individual responsibility and market forces, while social justice approaches favour state intervention to address structural factors out of the control of individuals. (unesco.org)
  • 2 Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are the most rigorous way to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions, regardless of their complexity. (bmj.com)
  • 2018-07-31 · Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are used to evaluate social and psychological interventions and inform policy decisions about them. (web.app)
  • Accurate, complete, and transparent reports of social and psychological intervention RCTs are essential for understanding their design, conduct, results, and the implications of the findings. (web.app)
  • Some scientists assert a hierarchy of knowledge: randomised control trials (RCTs) are gold, scientific expertise is bronze, and practitioner or service user experience would not make the podium. (unesco.org)
  • However, their deliberations still involve choices, including whether policymaking should be centralised to roll out 'evidence based' solutions built on RCTs, or decentralised to allow local communities to draw on many knowledge sources in policy design. (unesco.org)
  • Because of their multifaceted nature and dependence on social context, complex interventions pose methodological challenges, and require adaptations to the standard design of such trials. (bmj.com)
  • The idea is to build country capacity to formulate, implement, and evaluate policies and programs to address substance use problems using a public health approach," PAHO Substance Use Advisor, Dr. Luis Alfonzo, said. (paho.org)
  • Environmental conditions in which people live, work, learn and thrive impact all aspects of health, and this evidence library provides insights to Increasing capacity to evaluate SDH interventions by providing evaluation, research, and analytics consultation services to safety-net and mission-aligned health systems. (web.app)
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (cdc.gov)
  • In 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity funded 3 grantees under the 4-year Childhood Obesity Demonstration (CORD) Project. (cdc.gov)
  • The upheavals in Venezuela since Chávez's election in 1998 threatened to disrupt the general acceptance of these policies and programmes. (socialistworld.net)
  • Dr Gangakhedkar, an eminent clinician and epidemiologist, has been intensely involved in devising guidelines for HIV management, as well as policy making for HIV/AIDS control programmes at the national level. (theseoultimes.com)
  • In this podcast, Camila Perera talks to Francesca Bastagli, Director of the Equity and Social Policy programme and Principal Research Fellow at global think tank ODI, and Shivit Bakrania, Knowledge Management Specialist at the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti to discuss the results of our recent systematic review investigating the impact of social protection programmes on gender equality in low and middle-income countries. (unicef-irc.org)
  • Science and evidence are important to policy, and researchers can contribute to programmes that reduce social and economic inequalities. (unesco.org)
  • A series of expert seminars and informal drug policy dialogues will be organised, bringing together experts from academia, governmental agencies, international organisations and NGOs, to address some of the most challenging drug policy dilemmas on the European agenda. (ungassondrugs.org)
  • Thus, drawing upon the principals of social Darwinism, hereditary factors were privileged while environmental factors were ignored. (encyclopedia.com)
  • This blog post captures expert insights and responses to questions raised in a TNRC Learning Series Webinar on Corruption in the wild plants supply chain: Addressing the social, financial and environmental costs. (worldwildlife.org)
  • Almost 60 % of the workshops implemented environmental or policy interventions. (biomedcentral.com)
  • How should measurement of ACEs also incorporate the measurement of social and health inequities, such as living in a context of structural racism, colonialism, poverty, and discrimination which are risk factors within community and societal contexts that may increase the risk for experiencing ACEs and exacerbate their impact? (cdc.gov)
  • Its establishment was motivated not only by the need for research on health research on how to identify and address patients' social needs in the context of clinical care. (web.app)
  • Determining the effectiveness of complex interventions can be difficult and time consuming. (bmj.com)
  • It used a pragmatic inexpensive cluster randomised controlled trial to explore the effect of these workers on patient satisfaction, mental health symptoms, and the cost effectiveness of care. (bmj.com)
  • The present study tested 2 main hypotheses, that is, whether an online multicomponent brief alcohol intervention was effective in reducing alcohol use among 15- to 20-year-old binge drinkers and whether inclusion of normative feedback would increase the effectiveness of this intervention. (jmir.org)
  • Best practices" were identified as interventions for which there is evidence not only of their effectiveness but also of their feasibility within resource constraints. (who.int)
  • As this is an observational study evaluating an intervention not randomly assigned, there might be some unmeasured residual confounding. (bvsalud.org)
  • Community led structural interventions should have complete control on all kinds of prevention and control services. (theseoultimes.com)
  • The underpinnings of today's mental health crisis include both social structural inequities and neurobiological vulnerabilities. (amacad.org)
  • An article in The Wall Street Journal exposed the impact of pandemic-related social isolation on children and adolescents: "'Of all age groups, this virus is probably more socially devastating to teens than any other group. (fee.org)
  • An understanding of systematic reviews and how to implement them in practice is common for professionals in health care, public health, and public policy. (wikipedia.org)
  • Washington, D.C., December 27 2021 (PAHO) - A new project by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) will provide technical support to Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guyana, Jamaica and Panama to improve national capacity to develop and implement health and social responses for substance-use related problems. (paho.org)
  • Professionals in medicine and social work lent their expertise to implement this project, with the firm conviction that they were contributing to the establishment of a qualitatively superior society. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Law No. 13.306/2016 brought incisive determinations about action awareness policies and educational campaigns, and at the same time authorizes the highest authorities of the Unified Health System (SUS) within federal, state, county and municipal governments to establish and implement the necessary measures to control the diseases caused by the virus, i.e. dengue, chikungunya and zika. (bvsalud.org)
  • At three months, patient satisfaction (the primary outcome) was higher among patients in intervention than in control practices (P=0.023). (bmj.com)
  • NADPI aims to strengthen the evidence base of European drug policy making by expanding the knowledge base and exchanging best practices on a number of key policy dilemmas related to demand reduction, prevention and harm reduction strategies. (ungassondrugs.org)
  • The project, led by the Transnational Institute, in collaboration with IDPC , Forum Droghe and Diogenis , aims to strengthen the evidence base of European drug policy making by expanding the knowledge base and exchanging best practices on a number of key policy dilemmas related to demand reduction, prevention and harm reduction strategies. (ungassondrugs.org)
  • Many scholars and experts acknowledge that it is now a suitable time to discuss and develop appropriate mental health policies and practices across Europe, including specific political measures within the framework of European integration. (lu.se)
  • Social Media, Religion and the City' invitation to present at Kristiansand City Council 'The City for All' week, 4 Feb 2019. (uib.no)
  • 2019-07-08 SONNET provides consultation services to help Kaiser Permanente leaders and front-line clinicians design interventions that address the social needs of our members. (web.app)
  • This report summarizes for healthcare managers those developments and their implications post UNGASS for the development of policies and in identifying the challenges and priorities for their responses to address the drug situation in order to achieve the targets set for 2019 and the 2030 agenda for sustainable development. (who.int)
  • National surveys gauging prevalence of social care-related activities in the health care Oct 19, 2020 opment in evaluation research can be viewed as refinements of, (1996) used social network theory to craft an intervention to prevent HIV 1997, p. (web.app)
  • In all areas of climate-related worker risk, including geoengineering, research is needed on the causality and prevalence of hazards, along with surveillance to identify, and interventions for hazard prevention and control. (cdc.gov)
  • SOS119 Global Cities: an introduction to urban sociology for the 21st century, MET900 Qualitative Digital Methods for Social Scientists and SOS120 Digital Sociology (new for Spring 2023). (uib.no)
  • To understand how these vulnerabilities and inequalities can be prevented and addressed, UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti is engaged in a five-year research programme (2018-2023) called Gender-Responsive and Age-Sensitive Social Protection (GRASSP), generously funded by the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) and other partners. (unicef-irc.org)
  • Our spring 2023 issue on international policy education. (umich.edu)
  • Evaluating complex interventions can pose a considerable challenge and requires a substantial investment of time. (bmj.com)
  • found evidence that physical activity and nutrition interventions at the workplace had a positive effect on body weight, BMI and body fat [ 12 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Students will also learn about health systems and policies and interventions for effective disease prevention and control. (edu.au)
  • The meeting brought together Party representatives from within and outside the Region, as well as subject experts from international agencies, to discuss policy options for prevention and control of SLT products. (who.int)
  • Its establishment was motivated not only by the need for research on health care interventions addressing SDH, but also by the realization that research efforts are not well coordinated or synthesized to inform practice. (web.app)
  • These are meant to inform the work of Parties to the Convention, of states non-Parties and other interested stakeholders on policies to prevent and control SLT use, and to also inform future agenda of the Conference of the Parties, the governing body of the WHO FCTC, as well as other international efforts. (who.int)
  • Fundamentally the article raises the question of whether there is a useful relationship between international relations theories and the practice of diplomacy and foreign policy. (blogspot.com)
  • The project brings the areas of practice, research and policy together in a series of expert seminars and informal policy dialogues to address some of the most challenging drug policy dilemmas on the European agenda. (ungassondrugs.org)
  • We propose the term 'neo-Hippocratic' to define policies favourable to ethical medical practice and the universal right to professionally delivered health care. (biomedcentral.com)
  • cations for TB control practice. (cdc.gov)
  • These interests have led me to partner in bids for interdisciplinary projects focusing on how social processes impact on the environment, two of which have recently received Horizon Europe funding - Pro-Climate will investigate how social tipping points which favour climate change resilience are reached, and Pro-Coast will investigate factors shaping community participation in coastal biodiversity conservation actions. (uib.no)
  • However, the PRISMA guidelines have been found to be limited to intervention research and the guidelines have to be changed in order to fit non-intervention research. (wikipedia.org)
  • Research that advances the conceptualization and measurement of ACEs is critical to measuring the impact of prevention, intervention, and response strategies, and is therefore an integral part of the Injury Center's research priorities. (cdc.gov)
  • This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) invites applications to support research projects focused on the expansion of existing or development of new ontologies for behavioral or social science research (BSSR). (nih.gov)
  • PAR-23-181 ) and the other funded projects in a Behavioral and Social Science Ontology Development U01 Research Network. (nih.gov)
  • My research interests focus on migration and the ethnic and religious diversity and the social challenges and opportunities created (e.g. multiculturalism, populism, Islamophobia) in contemporary cities. (uib.no)
  • The problem of establishing a strong relationship between theory and policy has been considered in several areas of social research. (blogspot.com)
  • In How Children Succeed , Paul Tough introduced us to research showing that personal qualities like perseverance, self-control, and conscientiousness play a critical role in children's success. (goodreads.com)
  • The research programme will examine how gender-responsive and age-sensitive social protection can sustainably reduce poverty and achieve gender equality. (unicef-irc.org)
  • The Social Interventions Research and Evaluation Network (SIREN) at UCSF was launched in the spring of 2016 to synthesize, disseminate, and catalyze rigorous research in this field. (web.app)
  • Social research can be defi ned as the systematic investigation of phenomena. (web.app)
  • av S Holmgren · 2011 · Citerat av 2 - RED10 is the first evaluation of all research at the University of Gothenburg as a ences and health sciences, as well as creative arts, humanities and social However, much longer times (both net study time and in particular gross study have led to significant and innovative interventions and publications, for example. (web.app)
  • survey was launched by the Scottish Centre for Social Research in 1999 and has examined public attitudes towards a wide range of issues in the period since. (gov.scot)
  • Peter Gray, research professor of psychology at Boston College, has written extensively on the importance of unstructured childhood social play for children's health and well-being. (fee.org)
  • Illustrated with post-WWII European policies, these principles are formulated as inputs for tentative action-research. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Previous research showed that electronically delivered brief alcohol interventions decreased alcohol use in college students and adult problem drinkers. (jmir.org)
  • Research concerning Health Promotion (HP) for people with disabilities or psychiatric problems is underdeveloped and this population is hard to reach by mainstream HP initiatives [ 5 , 6 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • However, scientific research and control actions to comprehensively address these hazards are notably absent. (cdc.gov)
  • I want every person who believes his or her tax dollars are being wasted on early-intervention programs to read this book. (goodreads.com)
  • Projects should address health-related behavioral and social science problems not easily solved without improvement in semantic knowledge structures (e.g., controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, and ontologies). (nih.gov)
  • Social protection, such as cash transfers or health insurance, can help address poverty and vulnerability, as well as supporting people during shocks from childhood through to old age. (unicef-irc.org)
  • Despite the benefits of social protection systems, many fail to address gender- and life course-related vulnerabilities and inequalities, limiting its potential for poverty reduction. (unicef-irc.org)
  • To address obesity, the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine), among other groups, has called for interventions to alter nutrition and physical activity environments and promote behavior change in multiple settings to reach adults and children. (cdc.gov)
  • It provides the basis for the international community and the individual Member States to effectively put in place the mechanisms to address the problem of drug production trafficking and use of illicit substances at different levels. (who.int)
  • Participants' key observations about the global SLT policy scenario and their proposals on the way forward to address the challenges identified are summarised here. (who.int)
  • Boys who registered for the sport-for-development programme were randomly allocated to the intervention or wait-listed. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The girls programme subscription was insufficient to form a wait-list and all registrants received the intervention. (biomedcentral.com)
  • 2 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2009, Supplement No. 8 (E/2009/28), chap. (who.int)
  • UNCTAD is part of the UN Secretariat, reports to the UN General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council, and are also part of the United Nations Development Group. (lu.se)
  • Currently, the international drug control conventions enjoy near universal adherence, with over 180 states party to the three international drug control conventions. (who.int)
  • Anne E. Becker is the Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Professor of Psychiatry, and Dean for Clinical and Academic Affairs at Harvard Medical School. (amacad.org)
  • They employ society's most fragile members, and in that way, contribute to social cohesion, employment and the reduction of inequalities. (biomedcentral.com)
  • For example, a systematic review of randomized controlled trials is a way of summarizing and implementing evidence-based medicine. (wikipedia.org)
  • The logical shortcomings of this approach when applied to social phenomena have been highlighted by Nancy Cartwright and Jeremy Hardie in Evidence-Based Policy: A Practical Guide to Doing It Better , and I discuss these problems In an earlier post ( link ). (blogspot.com)
  • To strengthen the evidence base 'what works', 'how' and 'why' for social protection to contribute to gender equality, this report proposes and presents an analytical approach to evidence generation on gender-responsive social protection for gender-transformative change. (unicef-irc.org)
  • However, without understanding policy processes and how politicians process evidence , researchers will struggle to understand their - sometimes peripheral - role in the bigger picture. (unesco.org)
  • STEP 2: Accept that public policy is not, and never will be, evidence-based. (unesco.org)
  • Treat evidence-based policy as one of many contested phrases masquerading as self-evident aims. (unesco.org)
  • First, evidence cannot determine the role that the state plays (or should play) in addressing societal problems. (unesco.org)
  • Each approach produces major differences in the demand for evidence of a policy problem and assessment of what solutions work. (unesco.org)
  • Finally, evidence cannot settle the debate between the maintenance of science's image vs. the development of science's influence over policy. (unesco.org)
  • This is of concern in post-conflict low-income settings where non-communicable diseases are emerging and there is limited evidence for physical activity interventions. (biomedcentral.com)
  • However, there is a paucity of rigorous evaluation for existing sport-for-development interventions and very limited contextually relevant evidence that supports these assertions [ 5 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The current study is the first randomised controlled trial evaluating the health impact of a sport-for-development intervention in a post-conflict setting and provides an important step in addressing the void of evidence in this sector. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Grantees engaged with community coalitions and organizations to deliver evidence-based interventions in the places where families live, learn, and seek health care, and they used the Obesity Chronic Care Model (3). (cdc.gov)
  • The collection can help local health departments, researchers, organization leaders, and community coalitions plan for and integrate evidence-based prevention and lifestyle-management interventions into routine settings for all children, by describing not only what to do but how to do it. (cdc.gov)
  • Vaccination with pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) is a public health intervention to prevent pneumococcal disease. (cdc.gov)
  • United Nations entities and civil society groups, including the side event on the public health elements of a comprehensive, balanced and inclusive drug policy. (who.int)
  • For example, both the outcome document and the Political Declaration support a shift in the focus of international drug policies towards public health, including prevention, treatment and care, and economic, social and cultural measures. (who.int)
  • When the number of people affected by a disease decreases, there is a tendency to disregard it as a public health problem. (theseoultimes.com)
  • Tuberculosis (TB) still represents a major public health problem in Latin America , with low success and high default rates. (bvsalud.org)
  • Therefore, studies on A. aegypti have led to greater scientific knowledge about its habitat, reproduction and development and a description of means to combat it, as a precondition for the fulfilment of the social purposes of Law No. 13.301, of June 27, 2016, mainly if researches about more efficient management models and management of public finances, contributing to unveiling impacts on public health and growth and human development. (bvsalud.org)
  • zika virus, legal interventions, public heath. (bvsalud.org)
  • Because of the public relevance of the problems caused by the zika virus and its impact on public health 15 , the Brazilian government edited and enacted Law No. 13.301, of June 27, 2016 16 , and published it in the Official Gazette of June 28, 2016. (bvsalud.org)
  • It's part of a broader initiative here at the Ford School on the Racial Foundations for Public Policy. (umich.edu)
  • Which of these additional potentially traumatic experiences are more likely to be experienced by children affected by social and health inequities? (cdc.gov)
  • And it is emphasized that it is difficult to make predictions in particular circumstances even when we have an idea of some of the operative social mechanisms, because of the perennial possibility of contingent interventions by additional factors. (blogspot.com)
  • uted to the continuing threat of TB, particularly in Many complex biological and social factors Africa and Southeast Asia. (cdc.gov)
  • worldwide, in interrelation of these factors, anthropologists and fact, one third of the increase in new TB cases in other social scientists have made important contri- the last 5 years can be attributed to HIV (WHO, butions toward the control of TB. (cdc.gov)
  • A total of 575 online panel members (aged 15 to 20 years) who were screened as binge drinkers were randomly assigned to (1) a Web-based brief alcohol intervention without normative feedback, (2) a Web-based brief alcohol intervention with normative feedback, or (3) a control group (no intervention). (jmir.org)
  • Furthermore, the intervention with normative feedback reduced weekly drinking only at 1 month after the intervention (n=575, beta = -.24, P = .008). (jmir.org)
  • There was also a marginally significant trend of the intervention without normative feedback on responsible drinking at the 3-month follow-up (n =575, beta = .40, P = .07) implying a small increase in moderate drinking at the 3-month follow-up. (jmir.org)
  • However, policy theories highlight the wider contextual issues that limit politicians' influence. (unesco.org)
  • Participants who did not subscribe for the intervention formed a non-registered comparison group. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The project, entitled Universal Health Care for Substance Use Disorders in Latin America and the Caribbean, will run for 18 months, and focus on training health and social workers. (paho.org)
  • And the systems of care are just as problem-plagued, costly, and egregiously inadequate as the rest of health care. (amacad.org)
  • After controlling for individual and system characteristics and modality of treatment , odds ratio (OR) for success was 2.9 (95% CI 2, 4.3, P (bvsalud.org)
  • In the questionnaire, the status of HP interventions and characteristics of the workshop were explored. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Policymakers do not fully understand or control the processes for which they are responsible. (unesco.org)
  • Through of the production and distribution of United Nations and introduced strict intergovernmental processes under the controlled substances on the Parties provisions on the consumption of aegis of the United Nations the interna- that had signed the Convention. (who.int)
  • According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) 2021 World Drug Report, 83 million persons in the Americas used controlled drugs in 2018, mainly cannabis, opioids, cocaine, amphetamines, and other stimulants. (paho.org)
  • and 5 types of household challenges (growing up in a household where there is intimate partner violence (IPV), an incarcerated household member, adult substance misuse, adult mental health problems, or divorce/separation). (cdc.gov)
  • By way of background, however, it also explored a number of related themes, including levels of social trust and 'connectedness' and adult views of young people and youth crime. (gov.scot)
  • They spend so much time in school, so much time that homework after school, so much time in adult-directed activities which are not fully play - play is activity that children develop themselves - that children take control of themselves and their children learn to be independent and solve their own problems. (fee.org)
  • Incorporating these interventions as established policies may have a considerable effect on the control of TB in similar high-burden areas. (bvsalud.org)
  • Complex interventions are "built up from a number of components, which may act both independently and interdependently. (bmj.com)
  • Complex interventions" are health service interventions that are not drugs or surgical procedures, but have many potential "active ingredients. (bmj.com)
  • 1 A complex intervention combines different components in a whole that is more than the sum of its parts. (bmj.com)
  • Evaluation of complex social problems: A simplified framework for monitoring and evaluating anti-trafficking interventions. (web.app)
  • Contents An introduction to social network analysis (pages 5-13) 2020-11-17 · Objectives Most complex healthcare interventions target a network of healthcare professionals. (web.app)
  • NTFP harvest and trade is often regulated through a complex set of policies, laws and customary rules that are vulnerable to corruption. (worldwildlife.org)
  • Persons who suffer from substance use disorders often face stigma, social isolation, and premature death. (paho.org)
  • Obesity is also related to psychosocial problems in children, such as anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and social problems such as bullying and stigma (1). (cdc.gov)
  • The RIPPLE (randomised intervention of pupil peer led sex education) study is a cluster RCT designed to investigate whether peer delivered sex education is more effective than teacher delivered sessions at decreasing risky sexual behaviour. (bmj.com)
  • If we have good sociological understanding of the causes of teen pregnancy or gang violence, perhaps that understanding will also provide a basis for designing effective interventions that reduce the incidence of the social problems we study. (blogspot.com)
  • A recent Council on Foreign Relations study points out that "defaults on foreign bonds by U.S. railroads in the 1890s were on the same scale as current developing country debt problems. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • Social network analysis (SNA) is a powerful technique to study how social relationships within a network are established and evolve. (web.app)
  • This study took as its starting point the idea that the problem of youth crime is not simply about the number of 'things that happen' but about the way that as individuals and communities we respond to those acts. (gov.scot)
  • This study evaluated the effect of a conditional cash transfer (CCT) policy on treatment success and default rates in a prospective cohort of socioeconomically disadvantaged patients . (bvsalud.org)
  • The 86 papers included in this review primarily reported physical activity interventions from peaceful high-income countries. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The elements of opportunism that accumulated over the decades of comparatively peaceful development have given rise to the trend of social-chauvinism which dominates the offical socialist parties throughout the world. (massline.org)
  • They write that shifting the responsibility of sustainable consumption to the consumer limits state involvement to raising awareness rather than taking more proactive interventions against unsustainable consumption. (lu.se)
  • Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) and the WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia, organised an inter-country meeting to discuss the findings of the report. (who.int)
  • It will also work to improve the collaboration between national health and drug control agencies. (paho.org)
  • The epidemic is a serious threat to the country's social and economic development and has serious and direct implications on the social services and welfare. (who.int)
  • The intervention comprised an 11-week voluntary competitive sport-for-development football league. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Positive rhetoric that promises broad social benefits has driven the rapid expansion of the sport-for-development sector since the UN International Year of Sport and Physical Education in 2005. (biomedcentral.com)
  • By keeping healthy children under quarantine, we are cruelly depriving them of the in-person free play and social interaction that are critical to their development and emotional well-being. (fee.org)
  • This doesn't worry me academically, but I am concerned about her development and the loss of the social interaction she was going to experience. (fee.org)
  • Please join Robert Fatton and Millery Polyneé for a conversation on how race and racism have affected international governance interventions, including international policing and development initiatives. (umich.edu)
  • And today, we're going to talk about how race has affected foreign policy and development in one very important case, that of Haiti. (umich.edu)
  • The theory that the struggle for existence and natural selection govern social development. (massline.org)
  • Assessing the facilitative approach to investment and sustainability within the microeconomics of sustainable development policy renders some noteworthy observations. (lu.se)
  • Neo-Hippocratic healthcare policies: professional or industrial healthcare delivery? (biomedcentral.com)
  • The proposed physicians-patients' alliance could promote policies in tune with professional ethics, prevent European policies' putting industrial concerns above suffering and death, bar care financing from the ambit of international trade treaties, and foster international cooperation policies consistent with the principles that inspire the design of healthcare policies at home and so reduce international migration. (biomedcentral.com)
  • It is our premise that specific problems, such as chemical exposures, biomechanical demands, and psychosocial stress are best addressed as a system rather than individually. (cdc.gov)
  • In other words, perhaps we can count on social science to provide a valuable and effective basis for the design of social policy. (blogspot.com)
  • But not all interventions are equally effective. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Policy makers pay relatively little attention to the vast theoretical literature in IR, and many scholars seem uninterested in doing policy-relevant work. (blogspot.com)
  • Many policy debates ultimately rest on competing theoretical visions, and relying on a false or flawed theory can lead to major foreign policy disasters. (blogspot.com)
  • The gap between theory and policy can be narrowed only if the academic community begins to place greater value on policy-relevant theoretical work. (blogspot.com)
  • It builds on the Gender-Responsive Age-Sensitive Social Protection (GRASSP) conceptual framework, and on the theoretical, conceptual and empirical literature on gender and social protection. (unicef-irc.org)
  • One of the important reasons that we value scientific knowledge is the possibility that it will allow us to intervene in the world to solve problems that we care about. (blogspot.com)
  • It is tempting to see scientists as the policy entrepreneurs that use their authority and powers of persuasion to prompt politicians to define and solve problems in better ways. (unesco.org)