Doncaster and Newham received additional funds to rapidly increase the availability of CBT-related interventions and to deploy them in new clinical services, operating on stepped-care principles, when appropriate.
More dangerously, our imperial instincts remain so strong that we are often to be found in the front rank of any military intervention, willing to deploy our troops into situations where even the genuine superpowers are reluctant to tread.
It would be very useful from a public health and safety perspective if there were low-cost prevention, intervention, and treatment strategies to deploy easily reducing the need for more expensive strategies that might not be possible to field where money and resources are scarce.
Given this, the logical intervention would be to deploy strategies that help patients align their beliefs with their practices.
Given the worldwide public health impact of AD, increased efforts are needed to develop novel and effective AD interventions that are easy to deploy and are not resource intensive.
The findings will have the potential to influence a change of clinical practice: RIC is a simple, non-invasive intervention that is cheap to deploy in an area where there are few, if any, effective alternatives.
The interface is controlled and updated by a MAS that determines the correct intervention to make or feedback message to issue, the correct method to deploy the intervention or feedback message as either text messages or auditory interactions.
An international intervention might not be ready to deploy there until September.
"It's a very classic and useful way to try and see where is the best place to deploy an intervention to have the biggest effect," says John Brooks, a medical adviser for the division of HIV/AIDS prevention at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDCC) in Atlanta, Georgia.
We decided to deploy the intervention programs in clinic settings.
