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Sun-protective behaviors in populations at high risk for skin cancer.

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Diao, D. Y., & Lee, T. K. (2014). Sun-protective behaviors in populations at high risk for skin cancer. Psychology Research and Behavior Management, 7, 9-18.
Over 3 million new cases of skin cancer are diagnosed in the US annually. Melanoma, a subtype of skin cancer that can be fatal if the disease is not detected and treated at an ear…

Call for Nominations 2020: (1) Travel Behavior Programs and (2) Behavioral Building Energy Conservation Programs

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Jay Kassirer Ottawa Apr 30, 2020 14:09 pm
Do you know of a particularly effective or innovative approach for changing travel or energy use behaviours? Yours? Nominate it for Landmark designation. Designation as a “Landmar…

Europe’s Energy Neighborhoods Program Earns Landmark Designation

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Jay Kassirer Ottawa Apr 30, 2020 14:08 pm
Europe’s Energy Neighbourhoods program engaged neighbourhoods to ‘bet’ with their municipalities that they could reduce energy use by at least 9% over a four-month time period, wi…

RE100 Corporate Renewable Energy Purchasing Program Earns Landmark Designation

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Jay Kassirer Ottawa Apr 30, 2020 14:07 pm
RE100 is a global collaborative initiative that is accelerating a shift in corporate energy purchasing to reduce global carbon emissions and buy energy from renewable sources. Mem…

Emotional Messaging Promoting Walking & Cycling to School

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Jay Kassirer Ottawa Apr 30, 2020 13:59 pm
Do you know any good examples of emotion-rich messages that promote walking and cycling to school, that are directed at students’ parents, and that are not judgmental, fear based …

Social norms, behavior change interventions, and hand hygiene practice in household, school and community settings (Doctoral dissertation).

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Wichaidit, W., (2018). Social norms, behavior change interventions, and hand hygiene practice in household, school and community settings (Doctoral dissertation). Available from University at Buffalo Theses and Dissertations (URI http://hdl.handle.net/10477/79401)
Low and middle-income countries face a high burden of infectious diseases, especially among young children. Hand hygiene, the act of washing one's hands with water and soap or cle…

Improvement of hand hygiene compliance in a private hospital using the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) method.

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Demirel, A., (2019). Improvement of hand hygiene compliance in a private hospital using the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) method. Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences, 35(3), 721-725.
Objective: Improving the compliance to hand hygiene in healthcare providers is important to reduce healthcare-associated infections. This study aimed to compare the compliance rat…

Assessment of correlated of hand hygiene compliance among final year medical students: A cross-sectional study in the Netherlands.

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Erasmus, V., Otto, S., De Roos, E., van Eijsden, R., Vos, M.C., Burdorf, A., & van Beech, E., (2020). Assessment of correlated of hand hygiene compliance among final year medical students: A cross-sectional study in the Netherlands. BMJ Open, 10, e029484.
Objectives To identify the factors that influence the hand hygiene compliance of final year medical students, using a theoretical behavioural framework.
 Design Cross-sectional s…

A systematic review of hand-hygiene and environmental-disinfection interventions settings with children.

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Staniford, L.J., & Schmidtke, K.A., (2020). A systematic review of hand-hygiene and environmental-disinfection interventions settings with children. BMC Public Health, 20, 195.
Background: Helping adults and children develop better hygiene habits is an important public health focus. As infection causing bacteria can live on one’s body and in the surround…

Can educational speech intervention improve visitors’ hand hygiene compliance?

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El Marjiya Villarreal, S., Khan, S., Oduwole, M., Sutanto, E., Vleck, K., Katz, M., & Greenough, W.B., (in press). Can educational speech intervention improve visitors’ hand hygiene compliance? Journal of Hospital Infection.
Background: Hand hygiene, a simple and low-cost measure, remains the leading inter- vention for reducing the burden related to healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). While many …
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