Table 3 Interventions classified according to type of intervention, setting and target population
Type of intervention | Setting | Target population | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Adult | Children | Adult & Children | ||
Promote healthy behaviours | City | Physical and cognitive training programme | Health check tests and a poster campaign | |
Different activities to promote healthy eating | ||||
Neighbourhood or area | A weight management programme | Reduce teenage pregnancy | Introduction of health brokers to promote health | |
Physical exercise program | Dietary health education program | |||
Intensive home-visiting program | ||||
Healthcare or social center | A web-based intervention to support self-management in patients with coronary heart disease | Oral health promotion program | Interventions to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV | |
Assessing CVD risk in pharmacies | Introduction of asthma specialist nurses | |||
Preventive care of patients with high CV risk | ||||
Individual asthma education programme | ||||
Cultural approach to CV risk prevention program | ||||
Behavioural counselling on fruit and vegetables consumption | ||||
Health shop in community centre | ||||
Cognitive Behaviour Theraphy for smokers | ||||
School | Teacher-supervised toothbrushing | Oral health promotion program | ||
Community group | Intervention for diabetes support and education | |||
Health education and physical exercise programme | ||||
Promote healthy settings | City | Domestic water fluoridation | ||
Neighbourhood or area | Receiving pasteurised cows’ milk by 6 months of age | Free smoke alarms and fire safety information | ||
Improved physical access to high-quality ‘healthy’ foods | ||||
Installation of central heating | ||||
Healthcare or social center | ||||
School | Road safety program | |||
Free healthy school meals | ||||
Playground redesign intervention | ||||
Community group | Impact of English smoke-free legislation | |||
Socioeconomic context | City | Food services and insertion for the homeless | Primary care reform | |
Transport strategy | ||||
Neighbourhood or area | Early Years Centers provide high quality day care | |||
Healthcare or social center | ||||
School | Providing daycare facilities for young children | |||
Community group | ||||
Physical context | City | Traffic calming | Urban regeneration programs | |
Interventions to improve housing | ||||
Neighbourhood or area | Neighbourhood renewal | |||
Healthcare or social center | ||||
School | ||||
Community group | ||||
Combined approach | City | Healthy cities | ||
Strategies to reduce health inequalities | ||||
Neighbourhood or area | Family Support Services | |||
Social and health maternal and child intervention | ||||
Healthcare or social center | Postnatal Support Health Visitor | |||
School | Environmental and educational intervention | |||
Community group | Race equality policies | |||
Social care and health follow-up programme targeting homeless tuberculosis patients | ||||