Selecting evidence based interventions and operational strategies using a life cycle approach

Evidence Based Economics

The selection of malaria vector control interventions should be evidence based and appropriate to the local ecology and epidemiology of the vector borne disease.

Community based nutrition interventions were implemented in five districts.

Is Evidence Based Medicine Broken?

It's not based upon evidence.

There is tentative evidence for the effectiveness of early interventions to prevent schizophrenia.

Provisional liberty based on insufficient evidence.

Enter the evidence based activist, the factivist.

Measuring the costs and benefits of interventions takes time and is often easier for situational or developmental prevention approaches, or single interventions, than for complex community based strategies that use a range of interventions. Similarly, many early or community based interventions can only expect to show effects in the long term.

Family oriented initiatives are becoming more evidence based.

What is the evidence upon which this is based?

This evidence based selection of interventions and the setting of coverage targets for each of them in order to achieve Goals 4 and 5 will be guided by the processes in implementation approach A.

But on poverty eradication, theory and evidence show that policy interventions, when skillfully designed, can play a significant role.

Principles of evidence based medicine have transformed the way we look at clinical interventions and may prevent repetitions of public health disasters such as the inappropriate promotion of hormone replacement therapy and anti arrhythmic drugs.

The four areas identified as high priority by ample population based and disease based evidence are

(f) Interventions should target the most at risk groups and areas, using, as far as possible, good practices and evidence based approaches that are adapted or developed in relation to the local context, needs and realities.

But economics is not evidence based in selecting its theoretical paradigms.

This is a cancer at the core of evidence based medicine.

(b) Adequate attention will be given to interventions which are based on the refinement of traditional knowledge.

And we're going to be able to invent brain based interventions for children who have difficulty learning.

Even for programmes targeted at the most vulnerable or those supporting interventions with long standing evidence of effectiveness, coverage is minimal.

UNICEF will support evidence based, high impact health and nutrition interventions and practices, which, if jointly scaled up and widely applied, will have a dual and synergistic impact not only on survival but also on growth and development.

That is a wrong deduction, based on evidence that does not exist.

Effective criminal justice reform and practices should, where possible, be evidence based.

(a) Strategic result 1 evidence based situation analysis for policy and action.

This has included significant investment in knowledge, research and evidence based practice.

Measures must be based on the quot best scientific evidence available quot .

(e) Strategies and interventions should be based on sound knowledge about the causes of crime and effective practices

Annex 1 serves as a starting point for country relevant, cause specific, priority interventions that will expand as new evidence becomes available.

Recent history provides convincing evidence that policies based on a misrepresenting reality backfire.

WFP and UNICEF raised US 950,000 from a corporate foundation for joint programming in school based interventions in Nicaragua.

He asked to what extent the Special Rapporteur had seen evidence of foreign interventions that might create obstacles to human development in Myanmar.

Other delegations favoured a results or evidence based methodology to determine programme priorities, instead of a human rights based approach.

Other delegations favoured a results or evidence based methodology to determine programme priorities, instead of a human rights based approach.

Troubling Interventions

By 2004, 76 country offices were supporting some level of school based activity, and in some countries school based interventions are a major component of the WASH programme.

Sami was arrested for twenty six counts of child pornography based on computer evidence.

Public policy, however, should be based on evidence and logic, not glib sociological babble.

Secondary sources are written accounts of history based upon the evidence from primary sources.

Material evidence had later proved that those confessions had been based on false testimony.

Interventions are increasingly being based on detailed subsector technological and market studies that permit the more precise identification of training needs.

Without related productive interventions, the improved road had only marginal impact, arguing persuasively for UNCDF to maintain an area based approach.

But the bottom line is that the ongoing reevaluation of cancer screening is evidence based.

Only then will it be possible to develop evidence based guidelines for its recommended use.