- Limiting Global Warming to 1.5 to 2.0°C: A unique and necessary role for health professionals
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...
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- International Journal of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity
Contains open access research articles focusing on the behavioural features of diet and physical activity...
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- On Social Marketing and Social Change
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....
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- CDC Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity
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...
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- Community Guide, The (Guide to Community Preventive Services)
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,...
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- Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center
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...
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- National Center for Safe Routes to School
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...
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- Best Workplaces For Commuters
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....
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- Community Toolbox
Includes many annotated links to other web-based resources supporting social marketing and social change...
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- Program Impact Attribution
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...
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- Changing Transportation Behaviours: A social marketing planning guide
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...
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- Strategies for Engaging Parents in Active School Travel
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...
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- CDC Public Health Image Library
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...
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- Evidence-Based Cancer Control Programs (EBCCP)
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....
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- Safe Routes Partnership
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...
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- Evidence-Based Intervention in Physical Activity: Lessons from around the world.
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...
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- Personal Health Promotion Interventions Using Telephone and Web-based Technologies
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...
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- Co-benefits of Designing Communities for Active Living: an exploration of literature
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...
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- Evolution of Bikesharing
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...
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- Why Cyclists Form Stronger Commuting Habits Than Drivers
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...
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- STEP IT UP! The (U.S.) Surgeon General's call to action to promote walking and walkable communities
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...
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- Active Living for Canadians with a Disability
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...
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- Child Trends: Research to improve children’s lives
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,...
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- Danish Cycling Barriers and Benefits Research
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...
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- Program Evaluation Methods; Measurement and Attribution of Program Results
A good, detailed, freely accessible overview of program evaluation and attribution methods....
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- Individuals Who Walk at a Brisk or Fast Pace are More Likely to Have a Lower Weight
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...
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- Engaging Teachers to Communicate Scientific Consensus on Climate Change and Other Topics
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...
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- Do Activity Monitors Increase Physical Activity in Adults with Overweight or Obesity? A systematic review and meta-analysis
According to this 2017 review, the programs are helpful. It is not yet clear if adding activity monitors to the programs provides addititional benefit....
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- U.S. National Social Norms Center
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...
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- Impact of Comics vs Photographs on Knowledge, Attitude and Behavioural Intentions
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...
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- Global Burden of Disease
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...
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- Social Marketing Interventions Aiming to Increase Physical Activity Among Adults: A systematic review
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...
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- Effectiveness of Social Marketing Interventions to Promote Physical Activity Among Adults: A Systematic Review (2016)
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...
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- A Meta-Analysis of the Evaluations of Social Marketing Interventions Addressing Smoking, Alcohol Drinking, Physical Activity, and Eating
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...
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- Online Interventions for Social Marketing Health Behavior Change Campaigns: a meta-analysis of psychological architectures and adherence factors
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...
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- Evaluation Issues and Systematic Review: Active Transportation
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....
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- Who Doesn't Mind Waiting? Examining the relationships between waiting attitudes and person- and travel-related attributes
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,...
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- Combination of Walkability and Greenery Boosts Activity Levels
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...
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- Effectiveness of Physical Activity Promoting Technology-Based Distance Interventions Compared to Usual Care (Systematic review, meta-analysis and meta-regression from 2017)
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...
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- Impact of Wearable Motion Sensing Technology on Physical Activity in Older Adults, The
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...
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- EPPI-Centre
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...
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- Health-Evidence.ca
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...
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- FrameWorks
Provides research reports and toolkits addressing a wide range of topics, and information and training on framing...
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- CDCynergy
While this resource is over a decade old, it is still a rich source of information. Contains an introduction to social marketing, and sections on program description, market research, market strategy, interventions, evaluation, and...
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