Olweus, one of the most trusted school-based bully prevention programs, addresses bullying systemically by focusing on school, classroom, individual and community level components.
These similarities were found for community level components, and for combined mass media and community level components.
When all components were taken together, the majority of respondents (81%) had been exposed to 10 or more mass media or community level components.
The Health Extension Program HEPP) is an innovative community level component of the Essential Health Services Package (EHSP) of the country that was initially started as pilot program during the second HSDP (2002/03-2004/05) in 50, 17, 24 and 3 'kebeles' (small administrative unit) of Tegray, Oromia, Amhara, SNNP (Southern Nation Nationality and people) and Dire Dawa regional state, respectively.
This was similar in Oshikuku and Oniipa – 86% and 83% respectively, but lower in Rehoboth at 73% as a product of lower exposure to community-level components.
A subset of components was defined as mass media (such as an advertisement on radio or television), while community-level components (IPC) were defined as flannelgram, picture codes small media, such as posters, and booklets and leaflets.
Interventions increasing the availability of or accessibility to condoms or including additional individual, small-group or community-level components along with condom distribution were shown to be efficacious in increasing condom use behaviors.
Although the San Diego study included family- and community-level components, additional economic incentives, for example similar to that used in the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Women, Infant and Children (WIC) program, may be needed to overcome financial barriers to achieving a healthy diet and lifestyle.
However, the effect of IMCI was limited mainly to the urban health system, particularly as the community-level component (C-IMCI) was barely implemented: in 2007, only 10 of the 42 health districts had begun implementing C-IMCI (Hamsatou 2008; Tawfik et al. 2001).
UNICEF supports social mobilization activities to prevent malaria at the community level – an important component of the national malaria control programme implemented by the Health Ministry, and one in which the media have a fundamental role to play.
At the time of interviews, prevention and/or treatment of tobacco-related harms was, at the community level, just one component of the core business of health service providers.
