Editorial: 3rd Special Issue on behavior change, health, and health disparities.
This Special Issue of Preventive Medicine (PM) is the 3rd that we have organized on behavior change, health, and health disparities. This is a topic of critical importance to improving U.S. population health. There is broad scientific consensus that personal behaviors such as cigarette smoking, other substance abuse, and physical inactivity/obesity are among the most important modifiable causes of chronic disease and its adverse impacts on population health. Hence, effectively promoting health-related behavior change needs to be a key component of health care research and policy. There is also broad recognition that while these problems extend throughout the population, they disproportionately impact economically disadvantaged populations and other vulnerable populations and represent a major contributor to health disparities. Thus, behavior change represents an essential step in curtailing health disparities, which receives special attention in this 3rd Special Issue. We also devote considerable space to the longstanding challenges of reducing cigarette smoking and use of other tobacco and nicotine delivery products in vulnerable populations, obesity, and for the first time food insecurity. Across each of these topics we include contributions from highly accomplished policymakers and scientists to acquaint readers with recent accomplishments as well as remaining knowledge gaps and challenges.
Vermont Center on Behavior and Health, Departments of Psychiatry and Psychological Science, University of Vermont, United States. Electronic address: Stephen.Higgins@uvm.edu.
Stephen T
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Higgins
D002908:Chronic Disease; D015438:Health Behavior; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000517:prevention & control; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control
Behavior change; Behavioral economics; Chronic health conditions; Cigarette smoking; Health disparities; Lifestyle; Obesity; Substance use disorders; Tobacco regulatory science; Tobacco use; Vulnerable populations
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