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(In)effective Interventions - Sigrid Hahn
BACKGROUND
Categories of Interventions
Product-intensive interventions (i.e. measles vaccination campaign)
Service-intensive interventions (i.e. integrated community health worker program)
Behavior-change interventions (i.e. anti-smoking legislation)
Environmental interventions (i.e. vector control)
Evaluation of an Intervention’s Efficacy
1. Does the intervention have a proven impact on health outcomes?
2. Is the intervention cost-effective?
3. Is the intervention sustainable?
4. Is the intervention scalable?
CASE 1: Traditional birth attendant (TBA) training programs and their impact on maternal mortality