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Digital Addiction

wish admin — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 10:39:57 +0000

Only two decades ago, communications and information technology were nowhere near what we see today. We are adopting new technological innovations at an unprecedented rate. We create new accounts, subscribe to new services and download new apps almost weekly. We monitor our blood pressure using smart wearable devices and take pictures of our food to determine how many calories there are in a meal. As we become increasingly dependent on technology, it is important to understand how this dependency might negatively affect society and adolescents, in particular. The level of attachment to, and overuse of, technology among this age group is alarming.

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Building Healthy Societies: A framework for integrating Health and Health Promotion into Education

wish admin — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 12:31:28 +0000

This report is a joined project with the WISE and aims to integrate the domains of education and health into a framework that would run a healthy society.

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Applying Behavioural Insights in Health

wish admin — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 11:28:36 +0000

Behavioural science fundamentally challenges the view that people always behave with rational self-interest. Evidence shows that people often make decisions intuitively, effortlessly and with little conscious awareness.

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Global Diffusion of Healthcare Innovation: Using Behavioral Insights to Accelerate Adoption

wish admin — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 11:27:24 +0000

This report argues for the need to gather unbiased insights in the process of accelerating health adoption practices.

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Applying Behavioral Insights: Simple ways to Improve Health Outcomes

wish admin — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 12:05:47 +0000

This report demonstrates the challenge of translating behavioral insights into tangible tools that policy makers can implement.

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Communicating Health Messages: A Framework to Increase the Effectiveness of Health Communication Globally

wish admin — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 12:54:21 +0000

Effective communication of medical jargon is essential towards impactful execution of what is said into what is done in the process of creating of impactful health policy.

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