ReviewBMJ global health2021
Behaviour adoption approaches during public health emergencies: implications for the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Masks and respirators for prevention of respiratory infections: a state of the science review.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2024Pooled it
- A scoping review of behavioural science approaches and frameworks for health protection and emergency response.Perspectives in public health · 2026Article
- Adherence to mask wearing and social distancing and use of lateral flow tests during the COVID19 pandemic in England and Wales based on the virus watch community cohort study.Discover public health · 2026Article
- Protocol: a systematic review+ (SR+) to combine associative and mechanistic evidence on the efficacy of face masks in reducing transmission of respiratory diseases.Systematic reviews · 2025Article
- Using the Community Perception Tracker (CPT) to inform COVID-19 response in Lebanon and Zimbabwe: a qualitative methods evaluation.BMC public health · 2025Article
- From print to perspective: A mixed-method analysis of the convergence and divergence of COVID-19 topics in newspapers and interviews.PLOS digital health · 2025Article
- Public health system in post-pandemic Sierra Leone: a scoping review.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Article
- CO-19 PDB 2.0: A Comprehensive COVID-19 Database with Global Auto-Alerts, Statistical Analysis, and Cancer Correlations.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2024Article
- Unraveling the effects of the Ebola experience on behavior choices during COVID-19 in Liberia: a mixed-methods study across successive outbreaks.BMC global and public health · 2024Article
- Knowledge, attitude, and practice toward the prevention of occupational exposure in public health emergencies among nurses in Wuhan.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
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- General health literacy, COVID-19-related health literacy, and protective behaviors: evidence from a population-based study in Japan.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Drivers of COVID-19 policy stringency in 175 countries and territories: COVID-19 cases and deaths, gross domestic products per capita, and health expenditures.Journal of global health · 2022Article
- Behaviors Associated With Household Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in California and Colorado, January 2021-April 2021.AJPM focus · 2022Article
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- Evidence-based recommendations for communicating the impacts of climate change on health.Translational behavioral medicine · 2022Article
- COVID-19 response in South African communities: Screening, testing, tracing and movement modelling.South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde · 2022Article
- Association of community engagement with vaccination confidence and uptake: A cross-sectional survey in Sierra Leone, 2019.Journal of global health · 2022Article
- Strengthening the evidence base for decisions on public health and social measures.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2021Article
- Bottom-up citizen engagement for health emergency and disaster risk management: directions since COVID-19.Lancet (London, England) · 2021Article
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Abstract
Human behaviour will continue to play an important role as the world grapples with public health threats. In this paper, we draw from the emerging evidence on behaviour adoption during diverse public health emergencies to develop a framework that contextualises behaviour adoption vis-à-vis a combination of top-down, intermediary and bottom-up approaches. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as a case study, we operationalise the contextual framework to demonstrate how these three approaches differ in terms of their implementation, underlying drivers of action, enforcement, reach and uptake. We illustrate how blended strategies that include all three approaches can help accelerate and sustain protective behaviours that will remain important even when safe and effective vaccines become more widely available. As the world grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic and prepares to respond to (re)emerging public health threats, our contextual framework can inform the design, implementation, tracking and evaluation of comprehensive public health and social measures during health emergencies.
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