Commentary: What is a population-based intervention? Returning to Geoffrey Rose.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Population-based interventions for preventing falls and fall-related injuries in older people.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024
   Pooled it
2. Two-year scale-up dissemination study of a multi-strategic community-wide intervention promoting physical activity: a single-arm pre-post hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2024
   Trial
3. Methodological development for core outcome sets in population health research: a mixed-methods study.Trials · 2025
   Article
4. How Is Scale Incorporated Into the Economic Evaluation of Interventions to Prevent Obesity or to Improve Obesity-Related Risk Factors: A Systematic Scoping Review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025
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5. Epidemiology of cardiometabolic health in Latin America and strategies to address disparities.Nature reviews. Cardiology · 2024
   Review
6. Disaggregating disparities: A case study of heterogenous COVID-19 disparities across waves, geographies, social vulnerability, and political lean in Louisiana.Preventive medicine reports · 2022
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7. Temporal trends in within-city inequities in COVID-19 incidence rate by area-level deprivation in Madrid, Spain.Health & place · 2022
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8. Systematic Reviews Should Consider Effects From Both the Population and the Individual Perspective.American journal of public health · 2021
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9. Promoting Intersectoral Collaboration Through the Evaluations of Public Health Interventions: Insights From Key Informants in 6 European Countries.International journal of health policy and management · 2021
   Article
10. Polypill for Population-Level Primary Cardiovascular Prevention in Underserved Populations-A Social Epidemiology Counterargument.The American journal of medicine · 2020
    Article
11. A COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY OF WALKING ENVIRONMENT IN MADRID AND PHILADELPHIA USING MULTIPLE SAMPLING METHODS AND STREET VIRTUAL AUDITS.Cities & health · 2020
    Article
12. Does the national dental scaling policy reduce inequalities in dental scaling usage? A population-based quasi-experimental study.BMC oral health · 2019
    Article
13. Focusing "upstream" to Address Maternal and Child Health Inequities: Two Local Health Departments in Washington State Make the Transition.Maternal and child health journal · 2015
    Article
14. Arsenic, antibiotics and interventions.International journal of epidemiology · 2014
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15. Prevention of Dental Caries in Nigeria: A Narrative Review of Strategies and Recommendations from 1999 to 2019.Journal of International Society of Preventive & Community Dentistry
    Review

Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Do population-based interventions widen or narrow socioeconomic inequalities? The case of breastfeeding promotion.2014

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

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Abstract

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