Supporting Healthy Behaviours
Considers why people make the decisions they do, and how societies can better support a healthy population at all stages of life, through our research into nudging behaviours; medical tourism; the management & organisation of healthcare; wellbeing, and public health economics.
Related projects
- Tackling Root Causes Upstream of Unhealthy Urban Development, funded by the UK Prevention Research Partnership (2019-2024)
- Feasibility study of breastfeeding intervention in Lothian, funded by the Chief Scientist Office (2022-2024)
- The impact of Covid 19 fear: evidence to inform social health and economic recovery a HAGIS Study (with colleagues in the Faculty of Social Science) (2021-2022)
In the news
- UK government misses the mark on shaping healthy urban policies
- Study reveals negative experience of family caregivers during the pandemic
- Research project to study the impact of COVID fear
- Care Homes in England had greatest increase in excess deaths at height of COVID-19 pandemic
- Experts discuss the ethics of 'nudging' to promote behavioural change
