A new Edith Cowan University (ECU) study has found advertisements that encourage healthy choices can reduce cravings and intentions to consume unhealthy foods, and in some cases a 15-second message ...

AI can help public health agencies in the quest to end HIV. The United States is pursuing an initiative to end the HIV epidemic by 2030. To achieve this goal, public health agencies and organizations ...

In behavioral research, it is largely assumed that people adapt their personal behavior to match the behavior of a reference group. A distinction is made between descriptive norms—the assumption that ...

May 6 (UPI) --The "We Can Do This" COVID-19 public education campaign launched by the White House in 2021 to increase confidence in vaccines succeeded in saving more than 50,000 lives, according to a ...

The research evaluated 15 behaviors promoted by the Act Belong Commit campaign and found mental well-being increased consistently with the frequency of participation in these behaviors. Awareness of ...

Public health promotion campaigns can be effective, but they do not tend to be efficient. Most are time-consuming, expensive, and reliant on the intuition of creative workers who design messages ...

Vaping might look like a harmless choice or a clubbing flex, but it’s a trap dressed up in glossy packaging. That’s the blunt message behind 'Don’t Toy With Your Life', a hard-hitting new anti-vaping ...

For decades, condom use campaigns and advocacy in Uganda have rightly focused on raising awareness of the benefits of condoms ...