title: Europe needs a central, transparent, and evidence-based approval process for behavioural prevention interventions.
abstract: Fabrizio Faggiano and colleagues discuss how a central, transparent, and evidence-based approval process is needed for behavioral prevention interventions in Europe and propose a way forward. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.
authors.affiliation: Department of Translational Medicine, Università del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro, Novara, Italy.
authors.forename: Fabrizio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Faggiano
authors.affiliation: Department of Translational Medicine, Università del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro, Novara, Italy; School of Public Health, University of Turin, Torino, Italy.
authors.forename: Elias
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Allara
authors.affiliation: Child and Baby Lab, Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Fabrizia
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Giannotta
authors.affiliation: Department of Translational Medicine, Università del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro, Novara, Italy.
authors.forename: Roberta
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Molinar
authors.affiliation: Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Harry
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sumnall
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
authors.forename: Reinout
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wiers
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Michie
authors.affiliation: The Methodology Center and Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University, State College, United States of America.
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Collins
authors.affiliation: Addictions Department Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, United Kingdom; Department of Psychiatry, University of Montreal, Montreal, Québec, Canada.
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Conrod
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D005060:Europe; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans