Interventions that address socioeconomic determinants of health are receiving considerable attention from policy makers and health care executives. The interest is fueled in part by expected returns ...

Health inequality remains a pressing challenge across populations, contributing to disproportionate rates of illness, reduced life expectancy, and unequal access to essential care services. These ...

This approach supports the community’s self-determination and capacity, has a long-term impact and results in less dependency on external actors and has proved that resources available will be used ...

Community-based violence intervention programs have proved to reduce homicides and shootings. In order to respond to gun violence and address its root causes, communities most affected are banding ...

Stockholm, Sweden: Community-based interventions designed to prevent obesity in children seem to work best in those under the age of five, while there is evidence of some success in primary school ...

If you are a curious, sociable and driven physician interested in engaging with people in a community to address their ...

Influence on individual lifestyles at a community level might be through the media (all forms including print, television) and the internet, education at schools and through public health initiatives, ...

This chapter addresses the elements—therapeutic activities, techniques, or strategies—that make up psychosocial interventions. Most if not all evidence-based, manualized psychosocial interventions are ...

Community intervention can help American Indian families change behavior related to early childhood weight gain and obesity, according to a new Kaiser Permanente and Northwest Portland Area Indian ...

Violence interruption is a community-based intervention strategy that can reduce gun violence and improve public safety in neighborhoods around the country. Only in America: The Front Lines of the Gun ...

Suggested Citation: "2 Closing the Quality Chasm: A Proposed Framework for Improving the Quality and Delivery of Psychosocial Interventions." Institute of Medicine. 2015. Psychosocial Interventions ...