scholarly journals Critical health response in the time of COVID-19: lessons from the past

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 336-345
Author(s):  
Rabia Ruby Patel ◽  
Tanya Monique Graham
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Health Behaviour ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
The South ◽  
Change Models ◽  
Health Behaviour Change

This article examines the South African government’s response to COVID-19 by exploring the strong emphasis that has been placed on South Africans taking personal responsibility for good health outcomes. This emphasis is based on the principles of the traditional Health Belief Model which is a commonly used model in global health systems. More recently, there has been a drive towards other health behaviour change models, like the COM-B model and Behaviour Change Wheel (BCW); nonetheless, these remain entrenched within the principles of individual health responsibility. However, the South African experience with the HIV epidemic serves as a backdrop to demonstrate that holding people personally accountable for health behaviour changes has major pitfalls; health risk is never objective and does not take place outside of subjective experience. This article makes the argument that risk-taking health behaviour change in the South African context has to consider community empowerment and capacity building.

scholarly journals The impact of nature-based interventions on public health: a review using pathways, mechanisms and behaviour change techniques from environmental social science and health behaviour change

2021 ◽  
Vol 9s7 ◽  
pp. 33-61
Author(s):  
Stephanie Wilkie ◽  
Nicola Davinson
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Health Behaviour ◽  
Behaviour Change Techniques ◽  
Change Models ◽  
Health Behaviour Change ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Environmental Social Science

The aim of this narrative review is to explore whether nature-based interventions improved individual public health outcomes and health behaviours, using a conceptual framework that included pathways and pathway domains, mechanisms, and behaviour change techniques derived from environmental social science theory and health behaviour change models. A two-stage scoping methodology was used to identified studies published between 2000 and 2021. Peer reviewed, English-language reports of nature-based interventions with adults (N = 9) were included if the study met the definition of a health�behaviour change intervention and reported at least one measured physical/mental health outcome. Interventions focused on the restoring or building capacities pathway domains as part of the nature contact/experience pathway; varied health behaviour change mechanisms and techniques were present but environmental social-science-derived mechanisms to influence health outcomes were used less. Practical recommendations for future interventions include explicit statement of the targeted level of causation, as well as utilisation of both environmental social science and health behaviour change theories and varied public health outcomes to allow simultaneously testing of theoretical predictions.

scholarly journals Initiation of health-behaviour change among employees participating in a web-based health risk assessment with tailored feedback

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ersen B Colkesen ◽  
Maurice AJ Niessen ◽  
Niels Peek ◽  
Sandra Vosbergen ◽  
Roderik A Kraaijenhagen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Health Risk Assessment ◽  
Health Behaviour ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Health Behaviour Change

From Comorbidity to Multiple Health Behaviour Change

2013 ◽  
pp. 152-169
Author(s):  
Amanda Baker ◽  
Sarah Hiles ◽  
Louise Thornton ◽  
Amanda Searl ◽  
Peter Kelly ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Health Behaviour ◽  
Health Behaviour Change ◽  
Multiple Health
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