Public Health and Sex Work: Using History to Motivate Change

A new public health context to understand male sex work

BACKGROUND Researching male sex work offers insight into the sexual lives of men and women while developing a more realistic appreciation for the changing issues associated with male sex work. This type of research is important because it not only reflects a growing and diversifying consumer demand for male sex work, but also because it enables the construction of knowledge that is up-to-date w...

Using Computational Agents to Motivate Diet Change

Computational agents which make use of behaviour change models have the potential to help motivate people to change problematic behaviour. The importance of emotion simulation in behaviour change agents is discussed, along with an overview of a behaviour change model (the Transtheoretical Model [1]) that computational agents can make use of. Experiments that will investigate these areas further...

A Simulation Modeling Framework to Optimize Programs Using Financial Incentives to Motivate Health Behavior Change.

INTRODUCTION While increasingly popular among mid- to large-size employers, using financial incentives to induce health behavior change among employees has been controversial, in part due to poor quality and generalizability of studies to date. Thus, fundamental questions have been left unanswered: To generate positive economic returns on investment, what level of incentive should be offered fo...

Mobility, Latino Migrants, and the Geography of Sex Work: Using Ethnography in Public Health Assessments

how to motivate individuals' work consciousness

work consciousness meaning to perform tasks without close supervision has three main factors: individual, work itself, and administration. individual needs, drives, motives, attitudes, and personalities interact with job- related factors such as organizational climate and meaningfullness. the result is observed behavior. administration- the third main factor- should match to other two factors b...