Interventions

The Best Practices Section of the Portal is a searchable list of chronic disease prevention and health promotion interventions which provides program planners and public health practitioners with easy and immediate access to successful public health programs, interventions and policies that have been evaluated and have the potential to be adapted and used.

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  INTERVENTION The experimental intervention took place over one school year (10 months) at low socioeconomic (SES) area schools in Australia. The primary aims were to prevent weight gain, reduce screen time, and maintain physical activity levels among ten-year-old students. Secondary …

• New York University Caregiver Intervention

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  The New York University Caregiver Intervention (NYUCI) aims to support caregivers of PwD by providing a four-fold treatment consisting of: Two individual counseling sessions tailored to each caregiver’s specific situation Four family counseling sessions with the primary caregiver and family …

• Aboriginal Head Start in Urban and Northern Communities

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  The Aboriginal Head Start in Urban and Northern Communities (AHSUNC) Program is a community based early intervention children’s program funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada. AHSUNC focuses on early childhood development (ECD) for First Nations, Inuit and Métis …