Structural interventions for sexually transmitted infection prevention and sexual health

摘要

The main concept behind the journal's Real World of STD Prevention section is that the effectiveness and impact of any public health intervention are determined by the efficacy of the intervention under optimally controlled conditions and the sum of factors that act as barriers and facilitators in the environment where the intervention is implemented. Because these barriers and facilitators often relate to structural factors (eg, laws, policies, resources, and workforce), efforts to optimize the environment to maximize effectiveness of prevention interventions are themselves referred to as structural interventions.