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Barriers and facilitators to consuming pulses: a qualitative exploration including effects of trying recipes at home

Journal of Nutritional Science
Pulses are a healthy, sustainable, low cost food, but consumption levels are low for a variety of reasons, including practical and cooking concerns. This work aimed to explore barriers and facilitators towards pulse consumption and increasing consumption,
B. Whittall, S. M. Warwick, M. Jackson, K. M. Appleton   +3 more
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Reversing the pipeline? Implementing public health evidence-based guidance in english local government

Implementation Science, 2017
Background In the UK, responsibility for many public health functions was transferred in 2013 from the National Health Service (NHS) to local government; a very different political context and one without the NHS history of policy and practice being ...
Lou Atkins, Michael P. Kelly, Clare Littleford, Gillian Leng, Susan Michie   +4 more
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Interventions to improve appropriate antibiotic prescribing in long-term care facilities: a systematic review

BMC Geriatrics, 2020
Background Overuse of antibiotics has contributed to antimicrobial resistance; a growing public health threat. In long-term care facilities, levels of inappropriate prescribing are as high as 75%.
Elise Crayton, Michelle Richardson, Chris Fuller, Catherine Smith, Sunny Liu, Gillian Forbes, Niall Anderson, Laura Shallcross, Susan Michie, Andrew Hayward, Fabiana Lorencatto   +10 more
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Developing and using ontologies in behavioural science: addressing issues raised [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

Wellcome Open Research, 2023
Ontologies are ways of representing aspects of the world in terms of uniquely defined classes of ‘entities’ and relationships between them. They are widely used in biological science, data science and commerce because they provide clarity, consistency ...
Nelli Hankonen, Robert West, Janna Hastings, Susan Michie, Marie Johnston, Alison J. Wright   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

SaferDrive: an NLG-based Behaviour Change Support System for Drivers [PDF]

, 2018
Despite the long history of Natural Language Generation (NLG) research, the potential for influencing real world behaviour through automatically generated texts has not received much attention.
Braun, Daniel, Reiter, Ehud, Siddharthan, Advaith   +2 more
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Modelling commercial vehicle handling and rolling stability [PDF]

, 2005
YesThis paper presents a multi-degrees-of-freedom non-linear multibody dynamic model of a three-axle heavy commercial vehicle tractor unit, comprising a subchassis, front and rear leaf spring suspensions, steering system, and ten wheels/tyres, with a ...
Day, Andrew J., Hussain, Khalid, Stein, W.   +2 more
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Changing behaviour [PDF]

La Revue du praticien, 2006
Individual change in behaviour has the potential to decrease the burden of chronic disease due to smoking, diet\ud and low physical activity.\ud Smoking quit rates can be increased by simple advice from a physician or trained counsellor, overall and in people\ud at high risk of smoking related disease, with low intensity advice as effective as high ...
Thorogood, Margaret, Hillsdon, Melvyn, Summerbell, Carolyn   +2 more
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The systematic development of guidance for parents on talking to children of primary school age about weight

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background The prevalence of overweight and obesity in children is increasing, alongside increases in rates of children’s anxiety and worry about their weight.
Fiona B. Gillison, Elisabeth B. Grey, Fran Baber, Angel Chater, Lou Atkinson, Alison Gahagan   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sanitation and Hygiene Behaviour Change at Scale: Understanding Slippage [PDF]

, 2016
As sanitation and hygiene programmes mature, the challenge shifts from bringing communities to ODF status to sustaining this status. In this context, many programmes are confronted with the issue of slippage.
Carolien van der Voorden, Clara Rudholm, Matilda Jerneck   +2 more
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Examining the influences on the use of behavioural science within UK local authority public health: Qualitative thematic analysis and deductive mapping to the COM-B model and Theoretical Domains Framework

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
BackgroundBehavioural science and its contribution towards improving public health is receiving increased recognition. Yet, the translation of these insights into public health practice is under-researched. This study explored the factors influencing the
Abby Moffat, Erica Jane Cook, Angel Marie Chater, Angel Marie Chater   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source