Addressing Individual Lifestyle Choices - Education, Health Promotion, and Patient Engagement.
The NHS has a growing user-demographic, and with rising demand, the NHS cannot function in the same way as people have come to know and expect. Innovative ways need to be employed to improve the accessibility and sustainability of health services. Lifestyle is a major contributor to the rise in NHS...
| Publicado en: | Scottish Universities Medical Journal Vol. 2; no. 1; pp. 31 - 37 |
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| Formato: | tables/charts Journal Article |
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Scottish Universities Medical Journal
Summer2013
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| Sumario: | The NHS has a growing user-demographic, and with rising demand, the NHS cannot function in the same way as people have come to know and expect. Innovative ways need to be employed to improve the accessibility and sustainability of health services. Lifestyle is a major contributor to the rise in NHS demand as there has been a move away from personal responsibility and accountability to a culture where cure is better than prevention. To improve health services, it would be advantageous to design better health campaigns that employ engaging behaviour models to instil long-term behavioural changes with regards to lifestyle behaviours and choices. This article will discuss the need for effective health campaigns with an emphasis on behaviour models. |
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