13 Subsequently, a few small-scale interventions engaged peer educators as part of their behavior change communication strategy.
One of the main characteristics of interventions engaging sex workers and groups most at risk is that they capitalise on these groups' collective identity.
These community [ 15] and systems [ 16] interventions, engaged the public, NGOs and health professionals in developing and disseminating materials addressing health literacy and cultural competence and provided information and feedback to allow for tailoring and publicising the psychosocial interventions.
At the outset of Kenya's VMMC program, for example, demand generation interventions engaged leaders of the traditionally non-circumcising Luo community in Nyanza to address traditional barriers to uptake and to build a strong enabling environment.
This is congruent with findings in the literature, including a review of 58 sexual and reproductive health interventions engaging men, which found that a multi-pronged approach was more likely to change behaviours among men and boys than single-focus interventions (Barker et al. 2010).
Fig. 2 Plotting existing TEI systems on the design space diagram shows that different combinations of embodiment and intervention engage different aspects of spatial cognition.
Moreover, PRISM does not assess changes in four of the activity areas outlined in the comprehensive intervention: engage data users and data producers, identify information needs, build data-use capacities, and strengthen an organization's data-use infrastructure.
The Engagement Interview Protocol and DSM-IV-TR Cultural Formulation model will be utilized to make a culturally appropriate diagnosis, assess the patient's psychiatric needs in a cultural context, conduct a culturally focused intervention, engage the patient, and make recommendations to the PCP [ 15, 20, 21].
Alternatively, an active human intervention engaging the local forest dependents in decision-making and implementation initiatives regarding recognition of actual causes of degradation, zone-wise selection of species, fixation of gestation period, protection, and equitable usufruct sharing was recommended as the prerequisite towards successful restoration of these fragile mangrove ecosystems.
Thus, the kind of direct intervention engaged in by France in Mali will be avoided by the United States in the various parts of the world in which it is waging its covert secret wars, accompanied by what is referred to as the "light footprint" in overt public policy.
