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Challenges to changing health behaviours in developing countries: A critical overview [1]

This overview of recent research on health behaviour change in developing countries shows progress as well as pitfalls. In order to provide guidance to health and social scientists seeking to change common practices that contribute to illness and death, there needs to be a common approach to developing interventions and evaluating their outcomes. Strategies forming the basis of interventions and programs to change behaviour need to focus on three sources: theories of behaviour change, evidence for the success and failure of past attempts, and an in-depth understanding of one’s audience.

Publication Date: 
01/08/2012
Frances E.Aboud [2], Daisy R.Singla [3]
Social Science & Medicine [4]
75
4
589-594
Tags:
Health [5], Developing Countries [6], India [7], Africa [8], Maternal Health [9], Child Health [10], AIDS [11], Sanitation [12], Bangladesh [13], Brazil [14], Burkina Faso [15], Malawi [16], United States Of America (US) [17], Waterborne diseases [18]

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