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How to Better Communicate Health Risks and Improve Health Outcomes: Probabilities and Proportions
St. Louis, MO (January 10, 2018) – We’re running a three-part blog series about health risks and communication in health, walking through psychological pitfalls, and offering behavioral science solutions. In Part I, we’re starting with numbers….
Health, Health Management, Medical Decision-Making / JANUARY 10 2018
Navigating the DNA Roadmap: Genetic Testing and Health Behavior Change
Navigating the DNA Roadmap: Genetic Testing and Health Behavior Change originally appeared on the Envolve PeopleCare blog on December 14th, 2017. St. Louis, MO – Today, a woman born in the United States has a 1…
Health, Health Management, Medical Decision-Making / JANUARY 5 2018
A New Year’s Resolution for You: Exercise for Pleasure and Enjoyment
Many people try improving their health, wealth, and happiness around the New Year. Fewer than 10%, however, feel successful in achieving their resolutions. More than 25% of people do not maintain their resolutions for…
Health, Health Management, Exercise, Motivation, Self-Control / DECEMBER 29 2017
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Digital Health’s Secret Weapon: Behavioral Science
By Aline Holzwarth Article originally appeared in HealthTech magazine. Read the full article here. With the ubiquity of smartphones, and the fact that everyone (including your grandma) carries their devices with them everywhere, we also carry…
Helping Remote Employees Towards a Healthier Lifestyle Some Insights from MTurkers
By Nina Bartmann, Jonathan Corbin, Ziyi Yan Image by Paico Oficial from Unsplash Remote work is here to stay In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, around March 2020, most companies across the U.S….
Make plans, not resolutions
This post originally appeared on the Pattern Health blog. By Aline Holzwarth Your new year’s resolution is very likely to fail. Most do. Resolutions are just not built to succeed. They rely on willpower, hoping…
The Mbrella Calendar: Helping Kenyan Families Track Their Savings for Health Insurance
Mbrella is a charitable organization devoted to helping impoverished Kenyan families buy health insurance. Mbrella connects donors with Kenyan mothers and employs a number of behavioral interventions meant to help the mother gain enough…