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Health and behaviour

open access: yesEastern Mediterranean Health Journal, 2001
Thispaper describes the changing concepts of health and disease including the burden of disease and the effect of biological, psychological and social factors on health. In particular, the impact of behaviour on health is discussed and means of affecting behaviour for health, such as religion, are described.
Mohit, A.
openaire   +3 more sources

Health Behaviour In School-Aged Children, 1997-1998 [Canada]: A World Health Organization Cross-National Study

open access: yes, 2023
The overall goal of the survey is to gain new insights into and to increase our understanding of health behaviours, lifestyles and their context in young people.
Social Program Evaluation Group. Queen's University at Kingston
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Current issues and new directions in psychology and health : what happened to behaviour in the decade of behaviour? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This editorial addresses two key aspects of the investigation of behaviour: the science and the application. On the one hand, researchers and policy makers recognise a need for good scientific evidence about behaviour and behaviour change, but are slow ...
Dixon, D.   +4 more
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CHAMP: Cognitive behaviour therapy for health anxiety in medical patients, a randomised controlled trial. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
BACKGROUND: Abnormal health anxiety, also called hypochondriasis, has been successfully treated by cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) in patients recruited from primary care, but only one pilot trial has been carried out among those attending secondary ...
Smith, Georgina   +57 more
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Developing habit-based health behaviour change interventions: Twenty-one questions to guide future research [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Objective. Habitual behaviours are triggered automatically, with little conscious forethought. Theory suggests that making healthy behaviours habitual, and breaking the habits that underpin many ingrained unhealthy behaviours, promotes long-term ...
Neter, E   +46 more
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Changes in the socio-demographic patterning of late adolescent health risk behaviours during the 1990s: analysis of two West of Scotland cohort studies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Background: Substance use and sexual risk behaviour affect young people's current and future health and wellbeing in many high-income countries. Our understanding of time-trends in adolescent health-risk behaviour is largely based on routinely collected ...
Sweeting, H.   +12 more
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Immediate effects of alcohol marketing communications and media portrayals on consumption and cognition: a systematic review and meta-analysis of experimental studies

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2016
Background Restricting marketing of alcoholic products is purported to be a cost-effective intervention to reduce alcohol consumption. The strength of evidence supporting this claim is contested.
Kaidy Stautz   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reducing catheter-associated urinary tract infections: a systematic review of barriers and facilitators and strategic behavioural analysis of interventions

open access: yesImplementation Science, 2020
Background Reducing the need for antibiotics is crucial in addressing the global threat of antimicrobial resistance. Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) is one of the most frequent device-related infections that may be amenable to ...
Lou Atkins   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Behaviour change for better health: nutrition, hygiene and sustainability. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
As the global population grows there is a clear challenge to address the needs of consumers, without depleting natural resources and whilst helping to improve nutrition and hygiene to reduce the growth of noncommunicable diseases.
Elmadfa, Ibrahim   +36 more
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Physical micro-environment interventions for healthier eating in the workplace: protocol for a stepped wedge randomised controlled pilot trial

open access: yesPilot and Feasibility Studies, 2017
Background An estimated one third of energy is consumed in the workplace. The workplace is therefore an important context in which to reduce energy consumption to tackle the high rates of overweight and obesity in the general population.
Milica Vasiljevic   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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