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Table 2 Overview of specific topics covered, classified by intervention type

From: Current experience with applying the GRADE approach to public health interventions: an empirical study

Type of intervention

Topics covered

Health policy interventions

SUPPORT summary: Do pharmaceutical reference and index pricing policies have effects on drug use, health care utilisation, health outcomes and costs?

Health systems interventions

WHO guideline on prevention and treatment of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections among men who have sex with men and transgender people

WHO guideline on retention of rural health workers

Various WHO guidelines on community-based newborn care

SUPPORT summary: Do conditional cash transfers improve the uptake of health interventions in low and middle-income countries?

SUPPORT summary: Does pay-for-performance improve the quality of health care?

SUPPORT summary: Does expanding the role of outpatient pharmacists improve healthcare delivery and patient outcomes?

SUPPORT summary: Does prompting physicians improve performance in preventive care?

Nutrition interventions

Guideline: Neonatal vitamin A supplementation

Guideline: Vitamin A supplementation for infants 1–5 months of age

Guideline: Vitamin A supplementation for infants and children 6–59 months of age

Guideline: Vitamin A supplementation in pregnant women

Guideline: Vitamin A supplementation in postpartum women

Guideline: Vitamin A supplementation during pregnancy for reducing the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV

Guideline: Intermittent iron supplementation in preschool and school-age children

Guideline: Intermittent iron and folic acid supplementation in menstruating women

Guideline: Daily iron and folic acid supplementation in pregnant women (in press)

Guideline: Intermittent iron and folic acid supplementation in non-anaemic pregnant women (in press)

Guideline: Use of multiple micronutrient powders for home fortification of foods consumed by infants and children 6–23 months of age

Guideline: Use of multiple micronutrient powders for home fortification of foods consumed by pregnant women

WHO recommendations for prevention and treatment of pre-eclampsia

WHO guidelines on HIV and infant feeding

Behavioural interventions

Canadian physical activity and sedentary guidelines for the early years

Environmental interventions

WHO indoor air quality guidelines: household fuel combustion (ongoing)

Cochrane systematic review on housing improvements for health and associated socioeconomic outcomes (ongoing)

Vaccination

Cholera vaccines: WHO position paper

Hepatitis B vaccines: WHO position paper

Human papillomavirus vaccines: WHO position paper

Measles vaccines: WHO position paper

Meningococcal vaccines: WHO position paper

Pertussis vaccines: WHO position paper

Pneumococcal vaccines: WHO position paper

Polio vaccines and polio immunization in the

pre-eradication era: WHO position paper

Rabies vaccines: WHO position paper

Rubella vaccines: WHO position paper

Vaccines against tick-borne encephalitis: WHO position paper

Screening interventions

Guidelines on cervical cancer screening

Guidelines on breast cancer screening

Guidelines on latent TB screening among immigrants and refugees

Guidelines for hepatitis B screening among immigrants and refugees

Clinical interventions

WHO guidelines for the programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis

WHO guidelines for mental health, neurological and substance use disorders within WHO Mental Health Gap Action Programme

WHO guidelines on prevention and control of cervical cancer (ongoing)

WHO guidelines on the management of children with severe malnutrition