Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Public Health
What it is not...
BUT
Enhances
Inform intervention design
effectiveness
Theoretically-informed Enhances
evaluations provide information replicability
about how interventions work ‘Real life setting’
Not all interventions are
effective
Epic Fails!
“Changing health related behaviour is difficult
because Policy Makers make it so!”
Default of PH?
Two interacting systems -
Dual Process Theory
Health Psychology & Behaviour Change
Why Understanding Human Behaviour is so important
Bio-Psycho-Social Model
(Engel, 1977,1980)
Improving People’s Health (2018)
To Change
Behaviour
Capabilities
Opportunities
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Motivations
• Behavioural
Economics
Behavioral
Economics
‘Nudge’
Defaults:
As humans