Examining public health practitioners’ perceptions and use of behavioural sciences to design health promotion interventions [PDF]
BMC Health Services Research, 2023 Background Behavioural sciences have been shown to support the development of more effective interventions aimed at promoting healthy lifestyles. However, the operationalization of this knowledge seems to be sub-optimal in public health.
Ariane Bélanger-Gravel +7 more
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Why and how to engage expert stakeholders in ontology development: insights from social and behavioural sciences [PDF]
Journal of Biomedical Semantics, 2021 Background Incorporating the feedback of expert stakeholders in ontology development is important to ensure content is appropriate, comprehensive, meets community needs and is interoperable with other ontologies and classification systems.
Emma Norris +5 more
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Behavioural Sciences for Better Health: WHO Resolution and Action Framework [PDF]
Eur J Public Health, 2023 Behavioural factors are important contributors to increasing trends in communicable and non-communicable diseases and their risk factors, injuries, and health emergency risks as well as other health challenges that pose a significant challenge to health ...
K. Bach Habersaat, E. Altieri
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Pathfinder: a gamified measure to integrate general cognitive ability into the biological, medical, and behavioural sciences. [PDF]
Mol Psychiatry, 2021 Genome-wide association (GWA) studies have uncovered DNA variants associated with individual differences in general cognitive ability (g), but these are far from capturing heritability estimates obtained from twin studies. A major barrier to finding more
Malanchini M +14 more
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How evolutionary behavioural sciences can help us understand behaviour in a pandemic. [PDF]
Evol Med Public Health, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has brought science into the public eye and to the attention of governments more than ever before. Much of this attention is on work in epidemiology, virology and public health, with most behavioural advice in public health focusing
Arnot M +14 more
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Theories of behaviour and behaviour change across the social and behavioural sciences: a scoping review. [PDF]
Health Psychol Rev, 2015 Interventions to change health-related behaviours typically have modest effects and may be more effective if grounded in appropriate theory. Most theories applied to public health interventions tend to emphasise individual capabilities and motivation ...
Davis R +4 more
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“Psyosphere”: A GPS Data-Analysing Tool for the Behavioural Sciences [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Positioning technologies, such as GPS are widespread in society but are used only sparingly in behavioural science research, e.g., because processing positioning technology data can be cumbersome.
Benjamin Ziepert +2 more
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Exacerbating Inequalities? Health Policy and the Behavioural Sciences. [PDF]
Health Care Anal, 2018 There have been calls for some time for a new approach to public health in the United Kingdom and beyond. This is consequent on the recognition and acceptance that health problems often have a complex and multi-faceted aetiology.
MacKay K, Quigley M.
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Where exactly do the social and behavioural sciences fit in One Health? [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthAt its core, One Health promotes multidisciplinary cooperation amongst researchers and practitioners to improve the effectiveness and management of complex problems raised by the interplay of human, animal and environment interactions.
Lucy Carter, Aditi Mankad, Walter Okello
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Editorial: Teaching Social and Behavioural Sciences in Medical Education [PDF]
MedEdPublish, 2016 Not applicable.
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