Advance care planning is a targeted intervention that promotes autonomy in end-of-life decisions, before individuals lose decision-making capacity.
"Alongside the business bank that I am setting up, the funding for lending scheme is a targeted intervention to help deal with this problem.
In a number of countries, including New Zealand, the US and the UK, a targeted intervention lasting a few months enables children with literacy issues to catch up.
However, smoking cessation could be a targeted intervention in which a woman with a history of premature birth may be able to reduce her future risk of recurrence.
The goal of this study was to demonstrate that a targeted intervention can improve vaccination rates in a population of asplenic veterans.
This study investigated the effectiveness of a targeted intervention program aimed at at-risk adolescents in a randomized clinical trial design (N = 107).
After participating in Think3d!, all students showed gains in spatial visualization, real-world math problems, and for older grades, visual and spatial math problems, suggesting that Think3d! provides a targeted intervention for spatial and mathematical reasoning.
Volunteer Basic Science and Clinical faculty for the medical school and teaching hospitals from a coalition of concerned partnering institutions would be a targeted intervention to assist in re-building the medical educational capacity of Liberia.
On the other hand, some studies also reported no significant change in prosocial behaviours, self-esteem, emotional and behavioural problems, coping and resiliency of adolescent boys and PTSD (for a lack of a targeted intervention).
This paper provides an overview of the Multisite Violence Prevention Project, a 5-year project to compare the effects of a universal intervention (all students and teachers) and a targeted intervention (family program for high-risk children) on reducing aggression and violence among sixth graders.
A grants-based integrated intervention was developed (with health inputs to mitigate the income-erosion effect of illness) to examine whether such a targeted intervention could change the health-seeking behaviour of the ultra-poor towards greater use of health services and "formal allopathic" providers during illness, besides improving their poverty status and capacity for health expenditure.
