Public Health in Practice (Jun 2024)
Meeting statement: Call to action for step-change in health behaviours
- Katrine Bach Habersaat,
- Anastasia Koylyu,
- Tiina Likki,
- Nils Fietje,
- Martha Scherzer,
- Vee Snijders,
- Alona Mazhnaia,
- Svenja Roy,
- Merita Berisha,
- Florie Miftari Basholli,
- Sabina Catic,
- Iveta Nagyova,
- Jonas Sivelä,
- Francesca Cirulli,
- Lien Van der Biest,
- Sladjana Baros,
- Šeila Cilović Lagarija,
- Mathilde Schilling,
- Hannah U. Nohlen,
- Maria João Forjaz,
- María Romay-Barja,
- İlayda Üçüncü,
- Edith Flaschberger,
- Tatjana Krajnc Nikolić,
- Olena Nesterova,
- Igne Lukmine,
- Yaiza Rivero-Montesdeoca,
- Julika Loss,
- Diana Andreasyan,
- Milena Carmina Oikonomou,
- Karina Godoy-Ramirez,
- Susanne Karregård,
- Robert Murphy,
- Jelena Niskanovic,
- Leen Van Brussel,
- Miguel Telo de Arriaga,
- Bogdan Wojtyniak,
- Cortney Price,
- Nurila Altymysheva,
- Karin Stein Jost,
- Roxane Berjaoui,
- Panu Saaristo,
- Joanna Glazewska,
- Marina Topuridze,
- Brett Craig,
- Parvina Mukhtarova,
- Marina Duishenkulova,
- Sarah Pace,
- Mary MacLennan,
- Marina Bachanovikj,
- Elke Jakubowski,
- Halima Zeroug-Vial,
- Ashley Gould,
- Adam Cutler,
- Mariken Leurs,
- Natalia Silitrari,
- Eugenia Claudia Bratu,
- Jenny Young,
- Viviane Melo Bianco,
- Robb Butler
Affiliations
- Katrine Bach Habersaat
- WHO Regional Office for Europe, Marmorvej 51, Copenhagen, Denmark; Corresponding author.
- Anastasia Koylyu
- WHO Regional Office for Europe, Marmorvej 51, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Tiina Likki
- WHO Regional Office for Europe, Marmorvej 51, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Nils Fietje
- WHO Regional Office for Europe, Marmorvej 51, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Martha Scherzer
- WHO Regional Office for Europe, Marmorvej 51, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Vee Snijders
- WHO Regional Office for Europe, Marmorvej 51, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Alona Mazhnaia
- WHO Regional Office for Europe, Marmorvej 51, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Svenja Roy
- WHO Regional Office for Europe, Marmorvej 51, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Merita Berisha
- Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, Pristina, Kosovo; Faculty of Medicine, University of Pristina, Kosovo
- Florie Miftari Basholli
- Department of Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, Pristina, Kosovo; Faculty of Medicine, University of Pristina, Kosovo
- Sabina Catic
- Institute for Public Health of Montenegro, Dzona Dzeksona bb, Podgorica, Montenegro
- Iveta Nagyova
- Department of Social and Behavioural Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, PJ Safarik University, Kosice, Slovakia; European Public Health Association (EUPHA), the Netherlands
- Jonas Sivelä
- Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Mannerheimintie 166, PL 30, FI-00271, Helsinki, Finland
- Francesca Cirulli
- Center for Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161, Rome, Italy
- Lien Van der Biest
- Flanders Institute for Healthy Living, Gustave Schildknechtstraat 9, 1020, Brussels, Belgium
- Sladjana Baros
- Institute of Public Health of Serbia “Dr Milan Jovanovic Batut”, Dr Subotica 5, Belgrade, Serbia
- Šeila Cilović Lagarija
- Institute of Public Health Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, M.Tita 9, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Mathilde Schilling
- CUBIC – The Center for Utilizing Behavioral Insights for Children, Save the Children International, St Vincent House, 30 Orange Street, London, WC2H 7HH, United Kingdom
- Hannah U. Nohlen
- Joint Research Centre, European Commission, 1049, Bruxelles, Brussel, Belgium
- Maria João Forjaz
- National Center of Epidemiology, Institute of Health Carlos III and RECAPPS, Avda. Monforte de Lemos 5, 28029, Madrid, Spain
- María Romay-Barja
- National Centre of Tropical Medicine, Institute of Health Carlos III and CIBERINFEC, Avda. Monforte de Lemos 5, 28029, Madrid, Spain
- İlayda Üçüncü
- Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Health, Ankara, Turkey
- Edith Flaschberger
- Austrian National Public Health Institute, Stubenring 6, 1010, Vienna, Austria
- Tatjana Krajnc Nikolić
- National Institute of Public Health Slovenia, Arhitekta Novaka 2b, 9000, Murska Sobota, Slovenia
- Olena Nesterova
- State Institution “Public Health Center of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine”, Denmark
- Igne Lukmine
- Ministry of Health of the Republic of Lithuania, Vilnius Str. 33, LT-01402, Vilnius, Lithuania
- Yaiza Rivero-Montesdeoca
- Luxembourg Health Directorate, 13a rue de Bitbourg, 1273 Luxembourg
- Julika Loss
- Robert Koch Institute, General Pape Str. 62-64, 12101, Berlin, Germany
- Diana Andreasyan
- National Institute of Health, Ministry of Health, Republic of Armenia, Yerevan, 0051, Komitas Street 49/4, Armenia
- Milena Carmina Oikonomou
- WHO European Office for Investment for Health and Development, C/O Ospedale S. Giovanni e Paolo, Corridoio San Domenico, 6777 Castello, 30122, Venice, Italy
- Karina Godoy-Ramirez
- Public Health Agency of Sweden, Nobels väg 18, 171 65 Solna, Sweden
- Susanne Karregård
- Public Health Agency of Sweden, Nobels väg 18, 171 65 Solna, Sweden
- Robert Murphy
- Department of Health, Block 1, Miesian Plaza, 50 - 58 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin, D02 XW14, Ireland
- Jelena Niskanovic
- Public Health Institute Republic of Srpska, Jovana Ducica 1, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Leen Van Brussel
- Flanders Institute for Healthy Living, Gustave Schildknechtstraat 9, 1020, Brussels, Belgium
- Miguel Telo de Arriaga
- Direção-Geral da Saúde, Alameda D. Afonso Henriques, 45, 1049-005, Lisboa, Portugal
- Bogdan Wojtyniak
- National Institute of Public Health NIH – National Research Institute, Chocimska 24, 00-791, Warsaw, Poland
- Cortney Price
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Viale Delle Terme di Caracalla, 00152, Rome, Italy
- Nurila Altymysheva
- Republic Center for Health Promotion and Mass Communication, Ministry of Health, 8 Logvinenko Str., Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
- Karin Stein Jost
- WHO Headquarters, Avenue Appia 20, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland
- Roxane Berjaoui
- Directorate General for Health, Ministry of Health and Prevention, 14 Avenue Duquesne, Paris, France
- Panu Saaristo
- International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Europe Region, Budapest, Hungary
- Joanna Glazewska
- Ministry of Health of the Republic of Poland, Department of Public Health, Poland
- Marina Topuridze
- National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, Georgia, 99 Kakheti Highway, Tbilisi, Georgia, 0198; Petre Shotadze Tbilisi Medical Academy, Ketevan Dedopali Ave., 51/2, Tbilisi, Georgia, 0144
- Brett Craig
- WHO Regional Office for Europe, Marmorvej 51, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Parvina Mukhtarova
- National Healthy Lifestyle Center, Dushanbe Dehoti 48 Str, Tajikistan
- Marina Duishenkulova
- Republic Center for Health Promotion and Mass Communication, Ministry of Health, 8 Logvinenko Str., Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
- Sarah Pace
- Ministry for Health and Active Ageing, Office of the Superintendent of Public Health, Pieta, Malta
- Mary MacLennan
- UN Behavioural Science Group, UN Innovation Network, Qatar
- Marina Bachanovikj
- Institute of Public Health of the Republic of North Macedonia, 50 Divizija No.6, Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia
- Elke Jakubowski
- For the Directorate General for Public Health, Federal Ministry of Health, Berlin, and the German Society for Public Health Services, Germany
- Halima Zeroug-Vial
- Mental Health and social Vulnerabiliy National Observatory, ORSPERE-SAMDARRA , 95 Boulevard Pinel, 69500 Bron, France
- Ashley Gould
- Public Health Wales, Capital Quarter 2 Tyndall Street, Cardiff, CF10 4BZ, United Kingdom
- Adam Cutler
- Israel Ministry of Health, 39 Yirmiyahu St. Jerusalem, Israel
- Mariken Leurs
- National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Antonie van Leeuwenhoeklaan 9, 3721 MA, Bilthoven, the Netherlands
- Natalia Silitrari
- National Agency for Public Health, 67 A Gheorghe Asachi Str. Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
- Eugenia Claudia Bratu
- National Institute of Public Health, Bucharest, Romania; University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Carol Davila” Bucharest, Faculty of Medicine, Romania
- Jenny Young
- Scottish Government, 3 E, St Andrew's House, 2 Regent Rd, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH1 3DG, United Kingdom
- Viviane Melo Bianco
- UNICEF Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia, 4 Route des Morillons, CH-1211, Geneva, Switzerland
- Robb Butler
- WHO Regional Office for Europe, Marmorvej 51, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 7
p. 100498
Abstract
Background: Enabling, supporting and promoting positive health-related behaviours is critical in addressing the major public health challenges of our time, and the multifaceted nature of behaviours requires an evidence-based approach. This statement seeks to suggest how a much-needed enhanced use of behavioural and cultural science and insights for health could be advanced. Study design and methods: and methods: Public health authorities of Europe and Central Asia and international partner organizations in September 2023 met in Copenhagen, Denmark, to discuss the way forward. Drawing on 1) country reporting to WHO, 2) interview study with public health authorities and 3) the meeting deliberations, this meeting statement was developed. Results: The meeting statement presents a joint call for step-change accelerated use of evidence-based approaches for health behaviours. Actionable next steps for public health authorities and international and regional development partners in health are presented. Conclusions: The way forward involves increased resource allocation, integration of behavioural insights into health strategies, advocacy through case and cost-effectiveness examples and capacity building.
