Flawed conclusions on the Västerbotten Intervention Program by San Sebastian et .al

An evaluation of Västerbotten Intervention Programme (VIP) was recently conducted by San Sebastian et al. (BMC Public Health 19:202, 2019). Evaluation of health care interventions of this kind require 1) an understanding of both the design and the nature of the intervention, 2) correct definition of...

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Autores principales: Blomstedt, Yulia, Norberg, Margareta, Ng, Nawi, Nyström, Lennarth, Boman, Kurt, Lönnberg, Göran, Stenlund, Hans, Wall, Stig, Weinehall, Lars
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6693255/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31409308
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7444-3
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author Blomstedt, Yulia
Norberg, Margareta
Ng, Nawi
Nyström, Lennarth
Boman, Kurt
Lönnberg, Göran
Stenlund, Hans
Wall, Stig
Weinehall, Lars
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Norberg, Margareta
Ng, Nawi
Nyström, Lennarth
Boman, Kurt
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Stenlund, Hans
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description An evaluation of Västerbotten Intervention Programme (VIP) was recently conducted by San Sebastian et al. (BMC Public Health 19:202, 2019). Evaluation of health care interventions of this kind require 1) an understanding of both the design and the nature of the intervention, 2) correct definition of the target population, and 3) careful choice of the appropriate evaluation method. In this correspondence, we review the approach used by San Sebastian et al. as relates to these three criteria. Within this framework, we suggest important explanations for why the conclusions drawn by these authors contradict a large body of research on the effectiveness of the VIP.
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spelling pubmed-66932552019-08-19 Flawed conclusions on the Västerbotten Intervention Program by San Sebastian et .al Blomstedt, Yulia Norberg, Margareta Ng, Nawi Nyström, Lennarth Boman, Kurt Lönnberg, Göran Stenlund, Hans Wall, Stig Weinehall, Lars BMC Public Health Correspondence An evaluation of Västerbotten Intervention Programme (VIP) was recently conducted by San Sebastian et al. (BMC Public Health 19:202, 2019). Evaluation of health care interventions of this kind require 1) an understanding of both the design and the nature of the intervention, 2) correct definition of the target population, and 3) careful choice of the appropriate evaluation method. In this correspondence, we review the approach used by San Sebastian et al. as relates to these three criteria. Within this framework, we suggest important explanations for why the conclusions drawn by these authors contradict a large body of research on the effectiveness of the VIP. BioMed Central 2019-08-13 /pmc/articles/PMC6693255/ /pubmed/31409308 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7444-3 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Norberg, Margareta
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Nyström, Lennarth
Boman, Kurt
Lönnberg, Göran
Stenlund, Hans
Wall, Stig
Weinehall, Lars
Flawed conclusions on the Västerbotten Intervention Program by San Sebastian et .al
title Flawed conclusions on the Västerbotten Intervention Program by San Sebastian et .al
title_full Flawed conclusions on the Västerbotten Intervention Program by San Sebastian et .al
title_fullStr Flawed conclusions on the Västerbotten Intervention Program by San Sebastian et .al
title_full_unstemmed Flawed conclusions on the Västerbotten Intervention Program by San Sebastian et .al
title_short Flawed conclusions on the Västerbotten Intervention Program by San Sebastian et .al
title_sort flawed conclusions on the västerbotten intervention program by san sebastian et .al
topic Correspondence
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6693255/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31409308
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7444-3
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