Studies of behavior change to enhance public health.

Sustaining Behavior Change to Enhance Micronutrient Status:

Using behavior change theories to enhance hand hygiene behavior.

It is well-documented that proper hand hygiene reduces nosocomial infections (Centers for Disease Control, 2000), while it is also well-documented that compliance by health care providers to proper hand hygiene remains less than satisfactory (Larson et al., 2001). It is the purpose of this brief communication to propose a theoretically driven approach that can be used by health educators in a v...

Population-Level Studies Reveal Ways to Enhance Patient Care and Improve Public Health

Surveys show that the American public supports having their personal health information used in research to inform public policy and practice, as long as appropriate privacy protections are in place. Large, population-level healthcare databases enable researchers to discover answers to questions that can not be found with individual studies or clinical trials alone. By aggregating data from man...

The effectiveness of mass communication to change public behavior.

This article provides an overview of the ways in which mass communication has been used -- or can be used -- to promote beneficial changes in behavior among members of populations. We use an ecological perspective to examine the ways in which mass media interventions can be used to influence public behavior both directly and indirectly. Mass media interventions that seek to influence people dir...

analysis of reading comprehension needs of the students of paramedical studies: the case of the students of health information management (him)

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