Selective Mutism Interventions: What Works?

What works? Interventions for maternal and child undernutrition and survival.

We reviewed interventions that affect maternal and child undernutrition and nutrition-related outcomes. These interventions included promotion of breastfeeding; strategies to promote complementary feeding, with or without provision of food supplements; micronutrient interventions; general supportive strategies to improve family and community nutrition; and reduction of disease burden (promotion...

What works in family planning interventions: a systematic review.

This study presents findings from a systematic review of evaluations of family planning interventions published between 1995 and 2008. Studies that used an experimental or quasi-experimental design or used another approach to attribute program exposure to observed changes in fertility or family planning outcomes at the individual or population levels were included and ranked by strength of evid...

Community-based childhood injury prevention interventions: what works?

Unintentional injury, with its broad range of injury types, possible countermeasures, and great number of agencies involved in its prevention, lends itself to community-based approaches. In this paper we examine 10 community-based injury prevention programmes that have targeted childhood injury prevention and have been evaluated using some measure of outcome. We investigate the nature of the in...

What works, and what really works.

In recent development discourse, much has been debated and written about evidence-based actions, defined as: ‘the application of the best available systematically assembled evidence in setting policy and practice’. Nutrition is clearly not exempt from justifying itself, and it is important that Public Health Nutrition has addressed this in recent issues. Much of our knowledge of ‘what works’ de...

Brief International Literature Review on Selective Mutism