Lobbying government officials, starting an activist group on campus, writing letters to people in power positions, staging interventions in situations of gender inequality, planning presentations for your workplace or school and volunteering for a girl-related cause are a few of many ways that you can make your October 11th count.
Formulation of evidence-based guidelines is complicated by limited knowledge regarding the effectiveness of interventions (particularly in situations of ongoing adversity), the effectiveness of widely used cultural practices, and the reduction of potentially harmful practices.
This includes limited knowledge on the effectiveness of (a) commonly implemented interventions, (b) established evidence-based interventions when used in situations of ongoing adversity, and (c) widely used cultural practices.
Moreover, it is difficult to estimate the effectiveness of an intervention in situations where preintervention estimates of health parameter are inadequate, which requires a demanding study design and analysis to examine or quantify causal associations (39).
The utility of adaptive interventions is especially evident in situations of an emerging pathogen with which the host population has no previous experience.
He didn't encourage him to be accountable for his actions, nor did he stress the importance of bystander intervention in situations like a house party.
Third, we described the importance of a long-term perspective on interventions for children and adolescents in situations of mass adversity and pointed to health systems aspects that promote sustainability such as budgeting and planning for the longer term.
We believe that the process operates outside of conscious choice of candidates, and we used that insight to test an intervention to overcome using double standards in situations of race-differentiated candidates.
One good example is the mobilization of relief teams in situations of great need, such as humanitarian interventions.
Far from being chastened by the Benghazi deaths or chalking them up to a failure to imagine the consequences of armed interventions in situations whose local politics they barely grasp, the Pentagon and the Obama administration have used Benghazi as a growth opportunity, a means to take military efforts on the continent to the next level.
