TY - JOUR
KW - Behavioral Medicine/education
KW - Cooperative Behavior
KW - Humans
KW - Inservice Training/organization & administration
KW - Models, Theoretical
KW - Pilot Projects
KW - Program Development
KW - Public Health/education
KW - Scotland
KW - State Medicine
AU - A. S. Gilinsky
AU - S. U. Dombrowski
AU - H. Dale
AU - D. Marks
AU - C. Robinson
AU - C. Eades
AU - D. Ouzounidou
A1 - 
AB - BACKGROUND: Public health services implement individual, community and population level interventions to change health behaviours, improve healthy life expectancy and reduce health inequalities. Understanding and changing health behaviour is complex. Integrating behaviour change theory and evidence into interventions has the potential to improve services. METHODS: Health Psychologists apply evidence and theories aimed at understanding and changing health behaviour. A Scottish programme is piloting the training of Health Psychologists within NHS contexts to address prominent public health challenges. RESULTS: This article outlines the details of this novel programme. Two projects are examined to illustrate the potential of partnership working between public health and health psychology. CONCLUSION: In order to develop and improve behaviour change interventions and services, public health planners may want to consider developing and using the knowledge and skills of Health Psychologists. Supporting such training within public health contexts is a promising avenue to build critical NHS internal mass to tackle the major public health challenges ahead.
BT - BMC public health
C5 - Education & Workforce
CY - England
DO - 10.1186/1471-2458-10-692
JF - BMC public health
N2 - BACKGROUND: Public health services implement individual, community and population level interventions to change health behaviours, improve healthy life expectancy and reduce health inequalities. Understanding and changing health behaviour is complex. Integrating behaviour change theory and evidence into interventions has the potential to improve services. METHODS: Health Psychologists apply evidence and theories aimed at understanding and changing health behaviour. A Scottish programme is piloting the training of Health Psychologists within NHS contexts to address prominent public health challenges. RESULTS: This article outlines the details of this novel programme. Two projects are examined to illustrate the potential of partnership working between public health and health psychology. CONCLUSION: In order to develop and improve behaviour change interventions and services, public health planners may want to consider developing and using the knowledge and skills of Health Psychologists. Supporting such training within public health contexts is a promising avenue to build critical NHS internal mass to tackle the major public health challenges ahead.
PP - England
PY - 2010
SN - 1471-2458; 1471-2458
SP - 692
T1 - Partnership work between Public Health and Health Psychology: Introduction to a novel training programme
T2 - BMC public health
TI - Partnership work between Public Health and Health Psychology: Introduction to a novel training programme
U1 - Education & Workforce
U2 - 21070643
U3 - 10.1186/1471-2458-10-692
VL - 10
VO - 1471-2458; 1471-2458
Y1 - 2010
ER -