Mobile Health Interventions for Improving Health Outcomes in Youth

Youth Mental Health Interventions via Mobile Phones: A Scoping Review

Mobile phone technologies have been hailed as a promising means for delivering mental health interventions to youth and adolescents, the age group with high cell phone penetration and with the onset of 75% of all lifetime mental disorders. Despite the growing evidence in physical health and adult mental health, however, little information is available about how mobile phones are implemented to ...

Improving child outcomes through maternal mental health interventions.

This commentary will provide a general overview of the public health considerations of maternal mental illness, both from a global perspective as well as from the South African context. The paper will outline the consequences of maternal mental illness for mothers as well as their offspring, through the life stages from pregnancy until adulthood. The paper then describes the Perinatal Mental He...

The Next Generation of Behavioral Health and Criminal Justice Interventions: Improving Outcomes by Improving Interventions

Health system and community level interventions for improving antenatal care coverage and health outcomes.

BACKGROUND The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends at least four antenatal care (ANC) visits for all pregnant women. Almost half of pregnant women worldwide, and especially in developing countries do not receive this amount of care. Poor attendance of ANC is associated with delivery of low birthweight babies and more neonatal deaths. ANC may include education on nutrition, potential prob...

Improving Women’s Health: Issues & Interventions