Abstract
Individual behaviour patterns affect health, mortality and the cost of health ser-vice delivery. For example, rising levels of obesity are associated with increasing prevalence of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and cancers. In the UK, popu-lation prevalence of being overweight and obese is predicted to cost an additional £50 billion in health care costs by 2050 (Foresight, 2007). In this chapter we out-line an evidence-based appraoch to designing interventions to change individual health-related behaviour patterns that can potentially improve public health.
Originalsprache | Englisch |
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Titel | Complex Interventions in Health |
Untertitel | An Overview of Research Methods |
Redakteure*innen | David A. Richards, Ingalill Rahm Hallberg |
Erscheinungsort | London |
Herausgeber (Verlag) | Routledge |
Kapitel | 11 |
Seiten | 103-110 |
Seitenumfang | 8 |
Auflage | 1 |
ISBN (elektronisch) | 9780203794982 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780415703147 |
Publikationsstatus | Veröffentlicht - 2015 |
Extern publiziert | Ja |
ÖFOS 2012
- 501002 Angewandte Psychologie