Health
People need to change their behaviour to stop COVID. How do you make them? – Sydney Morning Herald
Without a vaccine, our best methods for preventing COVID-19 are all behavioural: hand-washing, mask wearing, social distancing, isolating.
Consider obesity. Everyone knows what they need to do: eat better, move more. But that knowledge has not turned around the obesity epidemic, says Professor Anna Peeters, director of the Institute for Health Transformation at Deakin University. Knowledge is not enough.
Thats why scientists trying to fix the obesity crisis no longer focus on telling people what to do. Their new tools are subtle but powerful. Experts say we can, and must, make use of them in COVID-19.
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