Handbook of Intervention Science

Intervention science is increasingly recognized as an important for improving psychological and physical health while decreasing health disparities. Most books in the area begin with the premise of having a well-developed intervention to be disseminated. This book begins with how to develop that impactful intervention, and then how to evaluate, and disseminate it. Handbook of Intervention Science: From Design to Implementation discusses multiple approaches for developing and advancing interventions at the individual, family, community, health system, and policy level. It focuses on creating interventions suitable for diverse populations racially, ethnically, geographically, and socioeconomically. Combining best practices with a practical approach, the book enables readers to advance their intervention research. The book covers intervention design, data capture in trials, and evaluation, Decision trees highlight when to move forward with an implementation relative to needing further work.

• Identifies how to develop and advance interventions from design, through evaluation, to dissemination and scaling
• Focuses on interventions applicable across diverse populations for individual, family, community, and system wide interventions
• Provides decision trees for determining when to advance an intervention or adapt an existing one
• Incorporates technology in data capture, randomized delivery, pragmatic trials, & intervention evaluation
• Includes case study exemplars that illustrate key concepts for better understanding
• Contains bulleted key points for understanding and retention of main points