Low-income Groups and Behaviour Change Interventions: A review of intervention content and effectiveness

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Authors
Susan Michie, Karen Jochelson, Wolfgang A Markham, Chris Bridle
Date
26.03.08
This is the second paper in a series, Kicking Bad Habits, on how people can be encouraged to adopt healthy behaviour. Looking at interventions targeted specifically at low-income groups, this paper asks which interventions are effective in getting people to quit smoking, eat healthily and exercise. It reveals that the most frequently used techniques are providing information and encouraging people to set goals, which can be particularly effective at changing behaviour in disadvantaged groups.

There will be one more of these discussion papers before a final report is produced in late 2008.


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Manipulating the poor
Dr Alex Scott-Samuel | Director, EQUAL - Equity in Health R&D Unit, University of Liverpool
5 Apr 08

Not long after I started out in public health in the 1970s, the Labour government published its 'little red book' Prevention and Health: Everybody's Business (1976). This manual of preventive medicine, centred as it was on individualistic behaviour...

We need to act now to improve health
Dr Fiona Adshead | Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Chief Government Advisor on Inequalities, Department of Health
26 Mar 08

This paper suggests that changing behaviour in low-income groups could have a profound impact on the wider health economy. It argues that the best way to achieve these outcomes is through the rigorous application of techniques of behaviour change....


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