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The more targeted our interventions, the better.
To explore that question, we did a study in the Boston area where we put one of three interventions in people's homes for a period of several weeks.
And the longer you could interact with one of these interventions, well that's indicative, potentially, of longer-term success.
And we're going to be able to invent brain-based interventions for children who have difficulty learning.
The possible errors, like overcounting or double-stepping, were overcome using design interventions.
However, there are successful interventions for prevention.
It's not the only place we had any interventions.
This one that appeared in Science last year, for example, demonstrates that even simple retrieval practice, where students are just supposed to repeat what they already learned gives considerably improved results on various achievement tests down the line than many other educational interventions.
But beyond the staggering numbers, what's truly important from a global health point of view, what's truly worrying from a global health point of view, is that the vast majority of these affected individuals do not receive the care that we know can transform their lives, and remember, we do have robust evidence that a range of interventions, medicines, psychological interventions, and social interventions, can make a vast difference.
And yet, even in the best-resourced countries, for example here in Europe, roughly 50 percent of affected people don't receive these interventions.
The idea is, when you're short of specialized health care professionals, use whoever is available in the community, train them to provide a range of health care interventions, and in these books I read inspiring examples, for example of how ordinary people had been trained to deliver babies, diagnose and treat early pneumonia, to great effect.
And it struck me that if you could train ordinary people to deliver such complex health care interventions, then perhaps they could also do the same with mental health care.
And in my own trial in Goa, in India, we again showed that lay counselors drawn from local communities could be trained to deliver psychosocial interventions for depression, anxiety, leading to 70 percent recovery rates as compared to 50 percent in the comparison primary health centers.
We need to unpack complex health care interventions into smaller components that can be more easily transferred to less-trained individuals.
Still, today, armed with that knowledge that ordinary people in the community can be trained and, with sufficient supervision and support, can deliver a range of health care interventions effectively, perhaps that promise is within reach now.
But over the longer term, if we are moving into an economy that's heavy on technology and light on labor, and we are, then we have to consider some more radical interventions, for example, something like a guaranteed minimum income.
One of the few aid organizations in the world that specializes in providing psychosocial aid and first-response mental health interventions to refugees and displaced populations.
And my last assignment there was to run a unit called intervention development, which was responsible for designing interventions.
But in fact, we've been finding in our own laboratory research that small psychological interventions, small changes to people's values, small nudges in certain directions, can restore levels of egalitarianism and empathy.
There could be all sorts of medical interventions.
More than psychopharmaceuticals, though, there are many, many, many other therapeutic interventions that help other creatures.
Handwashing with soap can have an impact on reducing flu, trachoma, SARS, and most recently in the case of cholera and Ebola outbreak, one of the key interventions is handwashing with soap.
And lastly, we have the ability to create interventions to start to reshape our cities in a new way, and I believe that if we have that capability, we may even bear some responsibility to do so.
So to wrap up, the story I just told you is a story about how a dominant peacebuilding culture shapes the intervener's understanding of what the causes of violence are, how peace is made, and what interventions should accomplish.
After potable water, they are the interventions that have most reduced mortality, even more than antibiotics.
For our patients who do screen positive, we have a multidisciplinary treatment team that works to reduce the dose of adversity and treat symptoms using best practices, including home visits, care coordination, mental health care, nutrition, holistic interventions, and yes, medication when necessary.
Seriously, with all the heavy-duty stuff happening under our roof, one of the most tried and true interventions we know of, is to bake cookies.
And just as with Ella, not one of these interventions is part of an overall plan.
None of the interventions are dealing with the underlying issues.
We launched school education and workplace interventions.
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