Health promotion - Topics

Peer groups shift health behavior more than any app notification What should a 20-person company put in a wellness program? Hands only CPR is what bystanders should do — skip the rescue breaths Fear appeals in anti-smoking ads work until they make people defensive How do you get leadership to actually join the wellness program? Workplace health promotion: free fruit bowls versus shifts that let people sleep Safety culture versus safety paperwork: what actually moves injury rates? Seatbelt laws and smoking bans prevent more disease than advice ever did A pharmacy blood pressure check caught mine before any symptom did Health knowledge alone rarely changes behavior — cues and defaults do Plain packaging laws for cigarettes: did they actually cut smoking rates? Relapse after quitting smoking or drinking is normal not proof of weak willpower AEDs are everywhere and almost nobody knows where theirs is What makes an employee wellness program actually get used? Self efficacy predicts who stays with a program better than illness severity does Plain packaging on cigarettes: the clearest win health promotion ever had Reach and recall are not behavior change: what health campaigns should measure The Ottawa Charter is 40 years old — is health promotion still following it? Goodhart's law in health promotion: when the campaign metric becomes the goal Stair prompts at the office stop working once people stop noticing them Medication reminders fail when they ignore the patient's daily routine Workplace prevention programs hand out leaflets instead of changing the job itself Menstrual health campaigns kept leaving out trans and nonbinary people Should obesity campaigns use shame? The backlash is measurable What hospital health promotion departments actually produce for their budget From billboards to TikTok: where public health messaging actually reaches teens Social marketing lessons from the campaigns that actually moved vaccination rates Motivational interviewing beats telling patients what to do Why "5 a day" campaigns rarely change what ends up in the shopping cart