Tools- of Changes

This systematic review compares the efficacy of various behaviour change techniques used in smartphone app interventions for improving physical activity and sedentary behaviour in people with cardiovascular disease. The review searched six...

This scientific statement from the American Heart Association presents evidence of effective behavioral intervention programs that are feasible for adoption in primary care settings for cardiovascular disease prevention and risk management...

This toolkit provides a practical, step-by-step methodology for designing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating Social and Behavioural Change Communications (SBCC) initiatives to prevent overweight in children. Its review of covers...

Evidence-based interventions for public health. Includes sections on alcohol, motor vehicles, physical activity, tobacco, cancer, nutrition, pregnancy, vaccines, diabetes, obesity, sexual behavior, violence, mental health, oral health,...

This site is a clearinghouse for information on active transportation resources and programs (including tools, training and outreach) and research. It includes an image library (www.pedbikeimages.org) with a searchable collection of over 3...

This site helps community leaders, parents and schools develop programs and strategies that encourage and enable more children to safely walk and bike to school. It offers news, state contacts, a 'how-to' manual, and extensive resources for...

This site offers extensive case studies, tools, resources and research related to workplace commuting initiatives. The Best Workplaces for Commuters program provides national recognition for qualifying employers in the United States....

Covers such topics as audience research, behavioral design, distribution channels, media trends, mobile thoughts, obesity prevention, physical activity, research methods, sexual health, social media, and tobacco....

Includes social marketing case studies and additional resources related to breastfeeding, nutrition, obesity, and physical activity. Interactive database provides national and state-level data about the health status and behaviors of...

Contains open access research articles focusing on the behavioural features of diet and physical activity...

This short paper was written to engage health professionals in our efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change, Its central message is that climate solutions are health solutions, and health solutions are economic solutions. Health...

As global warming continues, ambient temperatures will pose an increasingly critical barrier in more and more areas to choosing walking, cycling and other active transportation modes. Accordingly, it will be important to develop and promote...

Includes many annotated links to other web-based resources supporting social marketing and social change...

This document provides a brief summary of options for assessing what portion of any measured behavior changes resulted from your program and what portion resulted from other influences. These options can also be used to attribute the...

If you want to influence transportation choices, this planning guide is written for you. You may be working on a very small or large program. This guide has been designed to help you focus on practical first steps and explore additional...

Provides photographs, illustrations and multimedia files, with image collections for environmental health, natural disasters, anatomy, biological sciences, heart health, nutrition, chemicals and drugs, diseases (including AIDS) and...

Parents and caregivers play a key role in determining if a child will walk or wheel to school. This report summarizes barriers and strategies for better engaging parents and caregivers, related to active school travel.Parents and caregivers...

Multicomponent behavior change interventions are typically used in weight management, but results are largely heterogeneous and modest. This study aimed to identify the most effective behavior change techniques for increasing physical...

EBCCP is a searchable database of evidence-based cancer control interventions and program materials. Topics include specific cancers, diet / nutrition, obesity, physical activity, sun safety and tobacco....

 Practical resources for promoting walking and rolling to and from schools.  Provides summaries of relevant academic research and a newsletter. Toolkits include: Guide to Safe Routes to Schools (2021), Strategic Storytelling...

Effective, promising, or emerging physical activity interventions from around the world.Summary: " We searched for reviews of physical activity iterventions, published between 2000 and 2011, and identified effective, promising, or...

A good, detailed, freely accessible overview of program evaluation and attribution methods....

According to this 2017 review, the programs are helpful. It is not yet clear if adding activity monitors to the programs provides addititional benefit....

Activity wristbands can be an effective tool for promoting changes in sedentary habits and behavior among students.Activity wristbands also make it cost-effective to track program impacts on activity levels, and the overall prevalence of...

This report covers telephone and web-based coaching interventions for increasing physical activity, improving nutrition and reducing weight.This report covers personal health promotion interventions using telephone and web-based...

Explores a wide range of literature and conducts an initial summary of evidence on co-benefits of activity-friendly environments.To reverse the global epidemic of physical inactivity that is responsible for more than 5 million deaths per...

Since this 2017 report, bicycle-sharing schemes (BSSs) have been experiencing a major breakthrough in cities at a global scale. Of the estimated 1,600 schemes in operation in 2017, approximately 95 percent were launched since 2007, with...

New evidence claiming to be the first of its kind suggests that people who walk or ride a bike to work also become behaviorally attached to their travel type and may even form stronger habits than drivers do.The work comes from...

Being physically active is one of the most important steps that Americans of all ages can take to improve their health. But only half of adults and about a quarter of high school students get the amount of physical activity recommended in...

This resource contains guidance on creating accessible and inclusive recreation and sport opportunities for those with disabilities.For 20 years The Active Living Alliance for Canadians with a Disability (ALACD) promoted, supported and...

Child Trends is a leading American research organization focused exclusively on improving the lives of children and youth, especially those who are most vulnerable. Their website includes research briefs on: Child welfare, Early childhood,...

This Danish barriers and benefits report is available in English. It summarizes the research findings and recommendations based on the research.The goal of this project was to find out what motivates people to make cycling their primary...

This 2015 peer reviewed study finds that individuals who walk at a brisk or fast pace are more likely to have a lower weight when compared to individuals doing other activities.In Britain, it is recommended that, to stay healthy, adults...

The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends digital health and telephone interventions that are implemented in community settings and focus on improving healthy eating and physical activity among adults interested in...

When consensus about a risk or mitigating behavior is newly developed and/or not clearly understood, communicating that consensus through teachers / instructors can be critical. While this blog entry focuses on climate change, it may also...

Links best evidence with practice to promote effective social norms marketing campaigns to improve health on college campuses and beyond.The mission of the National Social Norms Center (NSNC) is to: advance the social norms approach...

This 2017 study compares two modes of visually presenting information  - one using photographs and the other using cartoons - on audience's knowledge, attitudes and behavioural intentions.This study compares two modes of visually presenting...

A comprehensive picture of what disables and kills people across countries, time, age, and sex. The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) provides a tool to quantify health loss from hundreds of diseases, injuries, and risk factors, so that health...

According to this 2017 study, increasing the number of benchmark criteria used in an intervention to at least four increases the chances of achieving positive behavioural outcomes.A significant proportion of the world's adult population is...

This 2016 review found that the presence of more social marketing benchmarks in interventions increased the likelihood of success in promoting physical activity. The presence of more than 3 benchmarks improved the success of the...

Longer commute times and distances are correlated with negative attitudes toward waiting, while commuters with pro-transit, pro-density, and pro-active transportation attitudes tend to have positive attitudes toward waiting. Additionally,...

This 2017 study found that interventions using social marketing principles were effective at bringing about statistically significant behavior changes. Interventions designed to effectively change eating, physical activity, and smoking...

People are most physically active when their environments are both highly walkable and very green, according to a study by Marquet et al (2022), published in Environment International. This study contributes evidence that higher levels of...

This 2017 review found that technology-based delivery of interventions seems to be more effective than usual care in promoting physical activity, particularly in interventions targeting health care patients. INTRODUCTION: Technology has...

These findings demonstrate that online interventions have the capacity to influence voluntary behaviors, such as those routinely targeted by social marketing campaigns. Given the high reach and low cost of online technologies, the stage may...

This meta-analysis investigated how different wearable activity trackers (pedometers and accelerometers) may impact physical activity levels in older adults. Nine studies met the eligibility criteria: Four using accelerometers, four using...

An earlier systematic review found large heterogeneity in the effectiveness of interventions in increasing AST and highlighted several limitations of previous research. This 2018 study provides a comprehensive update of that review....

Digital behavior change interventions can increase physical activity and reduce sedentary behavior in adults with type two diabetes.Technological advancements and ease of Internet access have increased the number of digital behavior change...

Multicomponent interventions, particularly those incorporating sit-stand workstations for all participants, are effective at reducing workplace sedentary time. Based on a systematic review and meta-analysis of 11 RCTs involving 1894...

This systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials found that the use of wearable physical activity monitoring devices appears to help patients with cardiovascular disease to increase their daily walking activity and...

Findings from this systematic review and meta-analysis indicate that chatbot interventions are efficacious for increasing physical activity, fruit and vegetable consumption, sleep duration and sleep quality.Chatbots (also known as...

Both short-term and long-term studies show that upon starting exercise training, many people decrease their non-exercise physical activity in compensation. This can reduce intended outcomes related to active living, heart health, physical...

The city of Pontevedra, Spain has been restricting car use since 1999. This article outlines transferable lessons the city has learned along the way. The city of Pontevedra, Spain has been restricting car use since 1999. This article...

In December 2023, the US Preventive Services Task Force issued a Draft Recommendation Statement that clinicians provide or refer children and adolescents aged 6 years or older with a high body mass index (BMI above the 95th percentile for...

Contains reviews of research evidence on interventions related to active transportation (walking and cycling), rod safety, physical activity, heart health (cardiovascular disease), HIV / AIDS, nutrition, obesity, tobacco (smoking), conflict...

A free, searchable online registry of systematic reviews on the effectiveness of public health and health promotion interventions. The content has been quality rated. Bilingual (English and French). Topics include: AIDS, environmental...

Provides research reports and toolkits addressing a wide range of topics, and information and training on framing...