OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of training of dispensers on knowledge of dispensers working at community pharmacies in context to storage temperature, prescription terminologies and status of medicines in Islamabad, Pakistan. METHODS A randomized, controlled, blinded intervention study was designed and implemented. Before the implementation of intervention, a baseline study was performed to...

OBJECTIVES To establish the relative cost effectiveness of postnatal support in the community in addition to the usual care provided by community midwives. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial with six month follow up. SETTING Recruitment in a university teaching hospital and care provided in women's homes. PARTICIPANTS 623 postnatal women allocated at random to intervention (311) or contro...

BACKGROUND Public health advocacy is by necessity responsive to shifting sociopolitical climates, and thus a challenge of advocacy research is that the intervention must by definition be adaptive. Moving beyond the classification of advocacy efforts to measurable indicators and outcomes of policy, therefore, requires a dynamic research approach. OBJECTIVES The purposes of this article are to ...

Although community partner engagement is a key component in faith-based health promotion/disease prevention intervention research, the perspective of community partners on their experiences in the intervention process has been infrequently investigated. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with 12 African-American community partners [i.e. four pastors and eight lay health co-ordin...

BACKGROUND: Neonatal mortality rates are high in rural Nepal where more than 90% of deliveries are in the home. Evidence suggests that death rates can be reduced by interventions at community level. We describe an intervention which aimed to harness the power of community planning and decision making to improve maternal and newborn care in rural Nepal. METHODS: The development of 111 women's gr...

PURPOSE The objective of this study is to develop a culturally relevant community-based intervention for children with communication disabilities in Kenya through a community/researcher partnership. The resulting intervention is for use in a randomized control trial which will be reported at a later stage. METHOD Using a qualitative approach, initial data was collected through focus group dis...

To study the effectiveness of an integrated intervention of health Objective: worker training, a low-cost ecological mosquito ovitrap, and community engagement on spp. mosquito control over 10 months in 2015 in an Aedes urban remote community in Guatemala at risk of dengue, chikungunya and Zika virus transmission. We implemented a three-component integrated intervention Methods: consisting of...

OBJECTIVES This study evaluated a community-based program in China to prevent initiation of drug use in young men. METHODS Similar intervention and control areas were selected. Village leaders, teachers, and women and youth leaders were recruited to participate in the program. Community activities were organized and intervention activities in schools were implemented. Incidence of new drug us...

In the Screening Older Minority Women project, the authors applied a community capacity-enhancement approach to promoting breast and cervical cancer screening among older women of color. Members of informal support networks were recruited for this health promotion intervention to empower Latina and African American women to engage in positive health behaviors. The authors describe the phases of...