Since very young children depend ultimately on the commitment and care of adults and their social organisations, one challenge of an empowerment approach is to identify ways of empowering women, men, families, and local communities to undertake actions for sustainability.
At the collective level, a community that is endowed with high stocks of social capital is one in which relations between residents are characterized by high levels of trust, mutual assistance, reciprocity, and collective ability to undertake action for the common good [ 13].
One point on the VAS scale thereby increased the risk for undertaking actions due to spinal pain by the factor 1.4 (p = 0.007, Nagelkerke R = 0.13).
They undertake actions that last for years.
In particular, from 1997 the US FDA with the 'Modernization Act' and from 2002 the European Medicines Agency (EMA) with the consultation paper 'Better Medicines for Children' undertook actions to promote clinical trials in children for both authorized and investigational medicinal products [ 6, 7].
Of course, for the vision to become reality, every organization must undertake actions within a strategic framework.
- We have undertaken, and continue to undertake, actions that we know full well to be destabilizing the planet, especially for future generations.
Phase I focused on i) Providing safe spaces; promoting skills development; ii) Providing life skills for adolescents; iii) Undertaking action research to support adolescent-led initiatives; and iv) Developing leaders who could mobilize other adolescents for community action.
During ANC, researchers of one study observed that pregnant women were ordered to undertake actions – such as for collection of blood specimens– in an authoritarian manner [ 97].
Even more important, the soul-mind had the power to make decisions and undertake actions, and accordingly it held responsibility for the moral quality of those decisions and actions.
As stated before, target groups need to receive two pieces of information in order for them to undertake action to receive the HPV vaccine.
