Conventional thinking about preventive interventions focuses over simplistically on the
“package” of activities and/or their educational messages. An alternative is to focus on the …

Overview: Risky behaviors are a leading cause of preventable morbidity and mortality, yet
behavioral counseling interventions to address them are underutilized in healthcare …

Executive summary Cardiovascular disease is a major cause of disability and premature
death throughout the world, and contributes substantially to the escalating costs of health …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to review the effectiveness of social marketing
interventions in influencing individual behaviour and bringing about environmental and …

Background Numerous trials of the efficacy of brief alcohol intervention have been
conducted in various settings among individuals with a wide range of alcohol disorders …

Issues. Numerous studies have reported that brief interventions delivered in primary care
are effective in reducing excessive drinking. However, much of this work has been criticised …

Introduction: Lifestyle physical activity interventions have resulted in response to the public
health problem of promoting regular amounts of physical activity to the majority of US adults …

The purpose of the study was to conduct a meta-analysis to empirically compare the relative
merits of different contexts typically employed in the physical activity intervention literature …

Context 2-[18 F] fluoro-3-(2 (S)-azetidinylmethoxy) pyridine (2-FA-85380, abbreviated as 2-
FA) is a recently developed radioligand that allows for visualization of brain α 4 β 2* nicotinic …

Consider the following two pieces of information about prostate cancer. First, a brief life
history. Fraser was born in 1921 on a croft in Sutherland, in the far north of Scotland. A local …