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.

Featured Interventions

• Rainbow Smile: Using Motivational Interviewing to Reduce the Rates of Early Childhood Caries

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  Rainbow Smile is a behavioral oral health intervention designed to prevent early childhood caries (ECC) among 6-18 months old South Asian immigrant children in British Columbia. Motivational interviewing (MI) was used to positively influence good oral health behaviors among the …

• VON SMART In-home and Group Functional Fitness Programs

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  The goal of the VON Initiative was to develop, implement, and evaluate an innovative community-based continuum model of physical activity interventions to reach community-dwelling, isolated, home-bound, non-participating seniors. The purpose of this project was to evaluate delivery of volunteer-led community-based …

• Alice Springs Indigenous Family Wellbeing Program

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  Australian Indigenous family wellbeing Promotion of personal empowerment and resilience in Indigenous families. Aboriginal women represent three per cent of all women in Australia, yet they make up six times that amount in family violence victims. One woman in Melbourne …