The importance of social acceptability to successful water reform is examined, together with the role of social assessment in achieving this.
Both studies considered their interventions successful and also emphasised the importance of ensuring acceptability of educational resources [ 15, 16].
3 4 The importance of assessing acceptability is an essential part of this process because if people will not accept an intervention, testing its potential effectiveness could be regarded as irrelevant.
Parents indicated that other family members may not support their efforts to adopt changes related to their child's weight and identified conflicting dietary needs of other children as a barrier, again highlighting the importance of the acceptability of behavior change within the context of the family and household decision-making model.
The clinical importance of differences in acceptability should be interpreted in light of the high overall levels of patient acceptability and the convenience of outpatient treatment.
Congestion charging is currently being considered as an important public policy in an increasing number of cities around the world, but evidence shows the importance of gaining public acceptability prior to its implementation.
At a more practical level, we believe that this data calls for more nuanced future discussions of the moral acceptability of deception in medicine; future discussion should acknowledge the importance of distinguishing the moral acceptability of different methods of deception.
While the HI-SEAS study will, ideally, give NASA insight into the importance of food variety and "acceptability" for the long-term goal of habitation on Mars, the results could be helpful for more immediate missions as well.
We recommend wider public health campaigns to sensitise the public about the importance of KMC and improve acceptability of the practice.
The developmental work highlights the importance of considering applicability and acceptability of behaviour change interventions to organisations, as well as to providers and recipients.
