Nudging: Behavioral Sciences applied to the Big Four Public Health issues and health inequalities

Nudging, Shaming and Stigmatising to Improve Population Health; Comment on “Nudging by Shaming, Shaming by Nudging”

Nudges are small, often imperceptible changes to how particular decisions present themselves to individuals that are meant to influence those decisions. In his editorial, ‘Nudging by shaming, shaming by nudging’, Eyal highlights links between nudges and feelings of shame on the part of the ‘chooser’. In this commentary, I suggest two further distinctions between different types of shame-based n...

Big Data and Public Health Systems: Issues and Opportunities

A. The Health System According to the World Health Organization (WHO), “a health system consists of all organizations, people and actions whose primary intent is to promote, restore or maintain health. This includes efforts to influence determinants of health as well as more direct health-improving activities. A health system is therefore more than the pyramid of publicly owned facilities that ...

Nudging in Public Health – An Ethical Framework

Public Health Sciences

Program Codes: 20FS1634MS (Biostatistics MS) 20FS1634PHD (Biostatistics PhD) 20FS1635MS (Community Health Sciences MS) 20FS1635PHD (Community Health Sciences PhD) 20FS1636MS (Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences MS) 20FS1636PHD (Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences PhD) 20FS1637MS (Epidemiology MS) 20FS1637PHD (Epidemiology PhD) 20FS1638MS (Health Policy and Administration M...

Thinking big: four ways to advance environmental health research to answer the needs of public policy.

Background: Epigenetic silencing of the RAS association domain family 1A (RASSF1A) tumor suppressor gene promoter has been demonstrated in renal cell carcinoma (RCC) as a result of promoter hypermethylation. Contradictory results have been reported for RASSF1A methylation in normal kidney, thus it is not clear whether a significant difference between RASSF1A methylation in normal and tumor cell...