Protective behaviors on trial in Mayo

1 March 2010 |

The CEO of the Barnardos children’s charity in Ireland commends an abuse prevention and “behavior policy” program to families in the West, where it is beginning its first community trial.

Prevention goes green in vision of 2025

17 February 2010 |

The UK Strategic Review of Health Inequalities puts prevention science, primary health care, transport policy and the national carbon footprint on the same page.

Head Start must hold its feet to the quality fire

19 January 2010 |

After almost a decade in the making, an impact study has come to the unsettling conclusion that the US Head Start program (uncle of the UK’s Sure Start) works … kind of …

How will they know if their children are in the zone?

12 January 2010 |

Offering US federal funding to neighborhood child welfare projects on condition that communities gather and analyze impact data is focusing attention on the lack of well-being measures robust enough to be the basis of national comparisons.

UK prevention evaluation center still on the cards

14 December 2009 |

A national center of excellence in outcomes to measure the impact and guide the progress of the various UK early intervention strategies introduced in recent months is still on the government policy agenda according to a Cabinet spokesman.

There's a light at the end of the U-bend

3 December 2009 |

Why behave sensibly if all you are doing is preserving your body for a miserable old age? Belfast researchers tell young drunks they’ve got it wrong: “Don’t worry – you’ll be happy”.