Harnessing behavioural science in public health campaigns to maintain 'social distancing' in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: Key principles

Chris Bonell; Susan Michie; Stephen Reicher; Robert West; Laura Bear; Lucy Yardley; Val Curtis; Richard Amlôt; G. James Rubin

doi:10.1136/jech-2020-214290

Harnessing behavioural science in public health campaigns to maintain 'social distancing' in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: Key principles

Chris Bonell^*, Susan Michie, Stephen Reicher, Robert West, Laura Bear, Lucy Yardley, Val Curtis, Richard Amlôt, G. James Rubin

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	617-619
Number of pages	3
Journal	Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
Volume	74
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2020-214290
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2020

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Acknowledgements LY is an NIHR Senior Investigator and her research programme is partly supported by NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC)-West, NIHR Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU) for Behavioural Science and Evaluation, and the NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre (BRC).

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Adolescents CG
Education
Health Behaviour
Health Promotion
Medical Sociology FQ

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