Next steps entail planning for a larger scale evaluation of this intervention, to include a greater number of schools from different regions of Lebanon, for a longer duration period.
13 To fit our evaluation goals, we expanded the assessment level of 'Reach' 13 beyond the individual assessment level (ie, absolute number, proportion and representativeness of individuals willing to participate in an intervention) to include an organisation assessment level (ie, an organisation's ability to identify the entire target population) (table 1).
Thus we designed this Targeted Exercise Adherence intervention to include an adherence-enhancing 'toolkit' of optional tools and techniques for physiotherapists to use with different participants, based on their assessment of individual participants and early feedback from participants (See Additional file 4 for summary of contents of the toolkit).
Policymakers face many decisions when considering public financing for health, including the kind of health interventions to include in a publically financed package.
Using cost-utility data from two economic analyses a hypothetical case scenario was created in which policy actors had to choose between two competing interventions to include in a public health benefit package.
Eligible multiple component interventions had to include a fixed combination of two or more interventions including exercise, medication, surgery, management of urinary incontinence, fluid or nutritional therapy, psychological, environment or assistive technology, social environment or knowledge [ 5].
The sites were chosen to ensure a global perspective, to examine settings at different stages in the epidemic with varying degrees of available interventions and to include a mix of urban, semi-urban and rural settings.
The trial investigated the impact on appropriateness of referral of asking GPs in the intervention group to include a completed TAG schedule when referring patients to adult CMHT, in addition to their normal referral practice [ 18].
Although Gauteng HCPs ranked circumcision as their most desirable intervention to include with a potential adolescent HPV vaccine programme, the choice was not made easily.
In response to the barriers identified, the intervention was designed to include a financial incentive, additional ongoing feedback on progress and reprompting review of patients, whose high-risk prescribing was restarted after a decision to stop.
