The phrase "absence of intervention" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing situations where no action or involvement has taken place, often in fields like psychology, medicine, or social sciences.
Example: "The study focused on the effects of the absence of intervention on the participants' behavior over time."
Alternatives: "lack of intervention" or "non-intervention".
In the absence of intervention, soon companies will know things about us that we do not even know about ourselves.
True enough, but the absence of intervention (Congo and Somalia) can be nasty, too – so nasty that bien pensants can't visit them to complain.
Gilbert Welch, the medical-outcomes expert, thinks that we fail to understand the hit-or-miss nature of cancerous growth, and assume it to be a process that, in the absence of intervention, will eventually kill us.
The context includes baseline status of conservation targets, and most likely counterfactual given recent trends in those targets i.e. what would have occurred in the absence of intervention.
We believe that in the absence of intervention, the rest of the world will move towards this pervasiveness of added sugars in the food supply.
Eventually, this may teach us how to harness the "placebo" effect — a terrible word, because it suggests an absence of intervention rather than the presence of a healing mechanism that depends neither on pharmaceuticals nor on surgery.
While the majority of pregnant smokers do not respond to intervention, little is known about how a subset of pregnant smokers known as spontaneous quitters achieve sustained biologically-confirmed abstinence through delivery in the absence of intervention.
To examine the distribution of behavioral strategy use across stage of change for healthful eating, and to determine if baseline stage predicts change in use of strategies over 1 year in the absence of intervention.
This problem has long been recognized for epidemiological surveillance, and standard correction factors have been employed for T21 to correct terminations of pregnancy for probability of survival to LB.20, 21 We instead corrected early terminations of pregnancy for probability of survival to 20 weeks GA, essentially calculating prevalence at 20 weeks GA in the absence of intervention.
While doubtless imperfect, plausible model-based extrapolations such as a recent one from America's Centres for Disease Control and Prevention CDCC) suggest, in the absence of intervention, that there could be 1.4m cases in west Africa in the next three months.Not that Ebola will necessarily be contained in west Africa.
However, markets are unlikely to yield high-quality and efficient healthcare in the absence of intervention for several reasons.
