Key result
CIH study establishes a community-level intervention framework for chronic disease prevention without reporting clinical outcomes.
CIH protocol supplies standardized tools for multi-country structural prevention; leaves open whether interventions reduce chronic disease burden.
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Duffany et al. (2011) studied Chronic disease risk factors (unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, tobacco use). Community Interventions for Health (CIH) vs. Non-randomized control communities was evaluated on Change in prevalence of three key risk factors (tobacco use, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity). The Community Interventions for Health (CIH) pilot study protocol outlines a framework and methodology to evaluate structural and community-based interventions for chronic disease prevention, reporting no clinical results.
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