Adherence
A comprehensive population-wide lifestyle intervention program, including mass media campaigns, fiscal measures, and health education, can successfully reduce cardiovascular risk factors such as hypertension, smoking, and alcohol consumption in a developing country.
Community-wide efforts, such as public education campaigns and policy changes (e.g., taxes on tobacco/alcohol), can effectively reduce smoking, alcohol misuse, and hypertension rates. Individuals can benefit from these broader societal shifts.
Lifestyle intervention projects can be implemented and have positive effects in developing countries... Significant decreases were found in the prevalence of hypertension... cigarette smoking... and heavy alcohol consumption...
Why this rating
Large sample size, high response rates, and statistically significant results across multiple risk factors, but observational pre-post design.
Source
Changes in population cholesterol concentrations and other cardiovascular risk factor levels after five years of the non-communicable disease intervention programme in Mauritius
Gary K. Dowse et al. · BMJ · 1995
DOI 10.1136/bmj.311.7015.1255
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