In this article, we examine progress and challenges in designing, implementing, and
evaluating culturally sensitive behavioral interventions by tailoring health communication to …

Acceptability is a core concept in digital health. Available frameworks have not clearly
articulated why and how researchers, practitioners and policy makers may wish to study the …

Across phenomena and areas of inquiry, social psychology often emphasizes social
categories as the unit of explanation. However, the primacy of categories often leads social …

Agent-based modeling is a computational approach in which agents with a specified set of
characteristics interact with each other and with their environment according to predefined …

Complex systems abound in public health. Complex systems are made up of heterogeneous
elements that interact with one another, have emergent properties that are not explained by …

A 'risk environment'framework promotes an understanding of harm, and harm reduction, as a
matter of 'contingent causation'. Harm is contingent upon social context, comprising …

Complex systems approaches have received increasing attention in public health because
reductionist approaches yield limited insights in the context of dynamic systems. Most …

Social marketing has evolved differently in the develo** and developed worlds, at times
leading to different emphases on what social marketing thought and practice entail. This …

Motivational Interviewing (MI), a counseling style initially used to treat addictions,
increasingly has been used in health care and public health settings. This manuscript …

Many representations of the movement of healthcare knowledge through society exist, and
multiple models for the translation of evidence into policy and practice have been …