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🌟 Call for Step-Change in Health Behaviours 🌟 The latest news release from Elsevier’s Public Health in Practice highlights a crucial call to action: embracing a more evidence-based and people-centred approach to health behaviours. 🩺✨ Behaviours such as inappropriate antibiotic use, low vaccination uptake, alcohol and tobacco consumption, and physical inactivity are deeply rooted in complex individual and social contexts. Addressing these challenges requires a multifaceted, evidence-based, and people-centred approach. Key insights from the first regional meeting on behavioural and cultural insights (BCI) for health, hosted by WHO in Copenhagen in 2023, include: 🔹 Building Support: Utilize WHO resolutions and advocacy to highlight the significance of BCI and promote cross-disciplinary collaboration. 🔹 Research and Insights: Improve health policies, services, and communication by conducting research and applying insights. 🔹 Sustainable Resources: Secure funding and human resources for sustained BCI implementation. 🔹 Strategic Plans: Embed BCI into national health plans and strategies systematically. This meeting, attended by 112 representatives from Europe and central Asia, marked a significant step towards advancing BCI across the region. Achieving these goals requires a collaborative effort, continuous learning, innovation, and a shared vision for a healthier future for all. 🌍💪 Let's work together to support and promote positive health-related behaviours and ensure no one is left behind! 💚 #PublicHealth #HealthBehaviours #BCI #WHO #Collaboration 📖 Read more: https://lnkd.in/dsYpZnpg

What are the experiences implementing behavioural and cultural insights (#BCIs) in Europe? Our behaviour affects our #lifestyle, as well as whether and how we use health services. It has a significant impact on our wellbeing, health and equity. Recognising the important of insights into the role of behaviour and culture in health promotion, WHO/Europe member states adopted the 2022 BCI resolution. WHO/Europe and ECDC have now published a first inventory of member states' progress in implementing the BCI targets. It shows that, while member states are making progress, the targets might be too ambitious to be reached by 2026. The status report's main findings? 1️⃣ Most authorities had conducted BCI-related research. 2️⃣ Most used the insights gained to inform the development of health policies, services and communication. 3️⃣ Few countries had implemented actions systematically or integrated across topics and target groups. 4️⃣ Few countries had human and financial resources in place and were working with stakeholders. Read more about the findings here👉 https://lnkd.in/e6ciSks9 Are you interested in learning more about using BCIs? Save the date for our annual seminar on June 3 in Utrecht/online, and hear from expert Katrine Bach Habersaat about using BCIs as a tool to protect health in these current times of change. More information to come soon! WHO Regional Office for Europe, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) #HealthInequalities #HealthPromotion #HealthEquity #PublicHealth

Public health authorities are keen to use behavioural and cultural insights (BCI) to combat major health challenges. So how come this approach is still underutilized? Challenges can include: 🔳 Lack of resources 🔳 Strategic planning gaps 🔳 Lack of capacity-building and cross-disciplinary collaboration A new report by WHO/Europe’s BCI Unit reveals the status of #BCI implementation by public health authorities and integration into health systems: 👉 https://bit.ly/4aPe5sM

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Applying #behavioural & #cultural insights to anticipate and confront major health challenges is a necessary journey to be advanced in the new ara of global risks and context… Grateful that my #WHO colleagues have been thinking and making their great efforts in applying this behavioural perspective and approach to #publichealth for better health outcomes. I learned about behavioural sciences and various models including health seeking behaviours and social learning from an international health social science program in Thailand more than twenty years ago… Our thinking, learning and practices in this field have been evolving in the new context. It is encouraging to learn that public health authorities in the #WHO European region are keen to use behavioural and cultural insights to combat major #health challenges… Human behaviours are extremely complex… I think that a good combination of #motivation, #competency and supportive #environment make a difference to change behaviours for better health… Thanks to our experts in behavioural sciences! Meanwhile, we need to open our #mindset, #heart and #will, and be #curious about embracing emerging ideas, testing & learning from new ideas, and encouraging innovative solutions to #emerging #challenges. We live in a very different world with new global #risks, #complexity and #uncertainty. I think that this requires us to have courage, critical thinking/rethinking, forward-looking perspectives, new skills and positive energy to contribute to emerging public health solutions, including appropriate use of #AI and #digital solutions while managing real and/or perceived risks. Perhaps, we have more questions than answers right now in addressing key challenges… How do we see the interconnection between “behavioural & cultural insights” and “artificial intelligence & digital transformation”?🤔

There’s an eagerness to embed #BCI Behavioural & Cultural Insights in European Public Health Authorities. Excellent health policies can be augmented with strategic planning for behaviour change. Let’s get this moving!

💡💡💡OECD - OCDE and the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies  prepared a set of 29 Country Health Profiles, covering all EU Member States+ Iceland and Norway. The State of Health in the EU’s Country Health Profiles are designed to be a one-stop-shop for knowledge and information on a country’s health system, put into the perspective of a cross-EU comparison. The Country Health Profiles are a comprehensive resource covering each country's latest health policy challenges and developments. Each Country Health Profile provides: 💡 a short synthesis of the health status in the country 💡the determinants of health (focusing on behavioural risk factors) 💡an account of the organisation of the health system 💡an analysis of each health system’s effectiveness, accessibility and resilience. This conceptual framework is based on the objectives set out in the Communication from the Commission an effective, accessible and resilient health systems. https://lnkd.in/dkS5n5w7

Commercial entities are well known for being able to influence the health of people and populations. But untangling exactly how commercial entities influence our health is complex. To find out more about the commercial determinants of health, and why they matter, read one of our top Intouch articles of 2023. https://lnkd.in/gMjPVyaG

📢 Join us for the launch of two key publications: Getting Australia's Health on Track 2024 and Australia’s Health Tracker 2024: Chronic Conditions by Socioeconomic Status. Australia’s Health Tracker 2024 highlights the staggering health divide in our country, with 40% of people in the most disadvantaged communities facing significantly higher rates of preventable health conditions. This needs to change. Getting Australia's Health on Track 2024 presents actionable policy solutions to reduce health inequities through: ✅ Enhanced community capability and capacity through collaboration and place-based community development ✅ Healthier environments through appropriate use of planning, regulation and legislation ✅ Investment in tailored preventive health initiatives for disadvantaged communities ✅ Equitable access to comprehensive, high-quality healthcare Be part of the conversation and learn how we can drive real change. Register for the online event now! #HealthEquity #PublicHealth #PreventiveHealth #Australia #makeadifference #PositiveHealthOutcomes #CareEconomy

Public health authorities want to use behavioural and cultural insights to combat major health problems but lack both resources and capacity, according to a new report from WHO/Europe. The Behavioural and Cultural Insights (BCI) Unit published its first status report on the use of BCI in the countries of Europe and Central Asia. This followed a regional resolution adopted in September 2022, which underscored the pivotal role of behaviour and cultural context in achieving equitable health outcomes. #publichealth #healthpolicy #behavioralhealth https://lnkd.in/dQBY_UZ6