WHO Bulletin issue on behavioural sciences for better health
The Bulletin of the World Health Organization is a fully open-access journal of public health with a special focus on low and middle-income countries. In November 2021 (Volume 99(11); 2021 Nov 1), a special theme issue on behavioural sciences for better health was published.
List of articles
Full list of articles - by type
Full list of articles - by geography
Editorials
Harnessing the power of behavioural science to improve health - Altieri E, Grove J, Lawe Davies O, Habersaat K, Okeibunor J, Samhouri D, and Bezbaruah S.
Using behavioural science for better health - Adhanom Ghebreyesus T
News
Preventing road deaths through safe system design
Joyce Wamoyi: changing behaviours for better health
Research
Changing hygiene behaviours: a cluster-randomized trial, Ethiopia - Aragie S, Tadesse W, Dagnew A, Hailu D, Dubie M, Wittberg D, Melo J, Haile M, Zeru T, Freeman M, Nash S, Callahan K, Tadesse Z, Arnold B, Porco T, Leitman T and Keenan J.
Iron and folic acid consumption and changing social norms: cluster randomized field trial, Odisha, India- Rimal R, Yilma H, Sedlander E, Mohanty S, Patro L, Pant I, Khuntia S, Swain M, Behera S.
Insights into vaccine hesitancy from systems thinking, Rwanda - Decouttere C, Banzimana S, Davidsen P, Van Riet C, Vandermeulen C, Mason E, Jalali M and Vandaele N.
Behavioural intervention for adolescent uptake of family planning: a randomized controlled trial, Uganda - Flanagan S, Gorstein A, Nicholson M, Bradish S, Amanyire D, Gidudu A, Aucur F, Twesigye J, Kyateka F, Balamaga S, Buttenheim A and Zimmerman E.
Systematic Reviews
Performance-based incentives and community health workers' outputs, a systematic review - Gadsden T, Mabunda S, Palagyi A, Maharani A, Sujarwoto S, Baddeley M, and Jan S.
Policy & Practice
Promotion of behavioural change for health in a heterogeneous population - Schimmelpfennig R, Vogt S, Ehret S, Efferson C.
Attribute-centred theorizing to address behavioural changes - Rimal R and Knight Lapinski M.
Perspectives
Behavioural and social science research opportunities - Carrasco M, Mickler A, Young R, Atkins K, Rosen J and Obregon R.
Improving malaria control by understanding human behaviour - Monroe A, Olapeju B, Moore S, Hunter G, Payne Merrit A, Okumu F and Babalola S.
Behavioural science to improve effectiveness of HIV programmes, South Africa - George G, Maughan-Brown B and Thirumurthy H.
Using behavioural and social sciences to inform public policies during COVID-19, Uruguay - López Gómez A, Dogmanas D, Brunet-Adami N, Bagattini N and Bernardi R.
