### engagements | intervention:

Early intervention
* Early Intervention can enable the family to foster their child's development.
* can give an important boost to a child's development
  - help to build a child's self-confidence
  - often be the difference between life and death
  - possibly play a role in an individual's prognosis
  - vastly improve a child's chances for a successful outcome and recovery
* common concept for both public health and pediatrics.
* deterrent to perpetuating struggling performance beyond third grade.
* has positive effects on both the child's development and the family.
* is an important element in assisting people with disabilities.
* is critical in all areas of medicine
  - to the development of positive and healthy attitudes about blindness
  - crucial in working with children
  - for children birth through two years of age and their parents
* is important in the treatment and management of asthma
  - to help the brain and the child
  - meant to prevent or decrease developmental delays
  - of critical importance for all people with mental illness
* is the key to a good start with any child who has special needs
  - latest fashion in mental health
* key to successful recovery from alcohol or drug dependency.
* means starting to work with children at a very young age.
* new form of involuntary treatment.
* provision of services to pre-schoolers.

Military intervention
* aims to establish protected zones and ensure the safe delivery of aid.
* is equivalent to a declaration of war.

Pharmacological intervention
* can take the form of nicotine replacement or bupropion or both.
* has a role in primary prevention for selected patients.
* is least cost-effective in the young and the elderly.

Psychological intervention
* can significantly reduce pain levels without the risks of medication.
* help cancer patients cope with the side effects of chemotherapy
  - people to identify and control their pain

Psychosocial intervention
* are a vital part of drug abuse treatment
  - very important to get the person with Schizophrenia a life back
* can also help maintain function and well-being in AD patients.

Surgical intervention
* are the primary treatment of hydrocephalus.
* can offer relief of pain when conservative methods have failed.
* is the treatment of choice.
* limit the progression of disease, but fail to restore function.

### engineering process:

Software development
* is an engineering process
  - outlet that allows for creativity in many ways
  - recognized as one of the most complex of the engineering disciplines
  - software development
* process filled with uncertainties.
* skill best called on when needed.
* spans the life-cycle of software from problem definition to product testing.

### engineering term:

Negative feedback
* generate instability in systems.
* helps to damp out variations in the Earth system.
* involves the sampling of controlled variables and corrective actions.
* is an engineering term
  - important process for regulating the secretion and release of hormones
  - at the heart of every stable, self-regulating system
  - feedback
  - most common in biological systems
  - seen when the output of a pathway inhibits inputs to the pathway
  - when the response diminishes the original stimulus
* maintains steady states in systems.
* occurs when the response to a stimulus reduces the original stimulus.
* regulates the secretion of almost every hormone.
* stablizes, whereas positive feedback destabalizes systems.

### engineers:

Agricultural engineer
* are engineers
  - workers
* design agricultural machinery and systems.
* work both indoors in offices and labs and outdoors in the field.

Automotive engineer
* Some automotive engineers design cars.
* monitor the effects of off-road driving on a military vehicle.
* use it to design heat shields around exhaust components.