Sentences with phrase «behavior change efforts»

There have been many social and behavior change efforts to engage men in reproductive health program interventions, but evidence regarding the impact on breastfeeding practice is mixed [1, 14].

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«There have been many efforts over the years to make individuals better healthcare consumers, but it's hard to change behaviors.

Although consumers are rapidly changing their habits and behavior, marketers still haven't caught up, prioritizing SEO and paid search efforts above engagement over social media.

Changing your mindset and behaviors can be tricky at first, but the payoff — quite literally — is worth the extra effort.

It didn't happen overnight, but when senior leaders throughout the military ranks, especially in special operations, got behind this change effort, started demonstrating the new behaviors themselves and talked about the new vision every day; only then didn't the culture start to shift to align with the vision and strategy.

It turned out that company leaders had not made an effort to sell the change internally, so employees were still churning out transactions and hadn't changed their behavior to match their new adviser role.

Treating it simply as a moral issue arouses guilt and efforts to change overt behavior.

By working to change behavior within these communities, the initiative aims to help reduce beverage calories consumed per person nationally by 20 percent by 2025 — the single - largest voluntary effort by an industry to combat obesity.

Sodexo is committed to playing a role in achieving this goal and is redoubling our efforts to eliminate food waste at every client site we serve through programs that focus on raising awareness and influencing the behaviors of our customers and employees; continuously improving our back - of - house processes and upgrading equipment in the kitchen; measuring our impact; and sharing our expertise with our clients and external industry partners to drive fundamental change on the issue of food waste.

«We fully support their ongoing efforts to reduce the risk of drunk driving by helping to change attitudes and behaviors.

Effective discipline techniques at this age include continuing to praise good behavior, focusing your child's efforts, what they can do and change, rather than innate traits (such as «you are smart»).

If your efforts don't result in changes, talk to your child's doctor, therapist, or behavior specialist to help reach your goals.

Yes, there is that immediate compliance, but if the parenting practice doesn't even result in changed behavior an hour later, why waste the effort?

Additionally, BabyCenter is currently participating in a number of maternal health projects around the globe including text4baby in the United States, collaboration with the Grameen Foundation in rural Ghana, and a new mobile program in India in an effort to reach underserved women and empower them to take control over their own health by implementing positive behavior changes.

Buried deep in the State of the State book are proposals aimed at changing roadway behavior in an effort to cut down on the number of highway fatalities.

While some green efforts in schools set out to change students» behaviors, students conserving electricity by turning off unused lights, for instance, is a positive consequence rather than the driving force of the Green Schools Energy Curriculum.

By casting doubt on the science, the need for behavior change is blunted — an approach the tobacco industry successfully employed throughout the 1980s and»90s to delay efforts to warn the public of smoking's dangers.

The researchers were interested not just in how the clinical trial participants» behavior changed, but also in how these efforts affected the community as a whole, said Thomas Coates, Project Accept's overall principal investigator and director of UCLA's Center for World Health.

Importantly, some of these behaviors involved physical effort, such as carrying groceries upstairs for someone, whereas other behaviors did not, such as giving someone spare change.

They also shared new approaches to studying the behaviors of animals that model these conditions — all in an effort to shed light on how the brain functions and how changes in the brain can lead to devastating neurological disorders.

But if they are able to take responsibility for their behavior, make determined efforts to change it, and show genuine empathy for the effect the behavior has had on their partner, recovery can be possible.

I specialize in exercise & positive lifestyle behavior change and I have created this blog to share my efforts in leading a healthy lifestyle.

Igniting change in clients requires honoring the complexities of behavior and recognizing the efforts required to repattern a lifestyle.

Physical activity behavior in this country has not changed very much, despite the effort that has been invested in encouraging those changes.

There is evidence that accountability systems with concrete goals change the behavior of school systems, at a minimum by refocusing efforts on disadvantaged students.

Do you notify parents immediately when you notice a change in their child's behavior or academic efforts?

The conditions, behaviors, and practices required by an effective coaching program can affect the culture of a school or system, thus embedding instructional change within broader efforts to improve school - based culture and conditions.

These effects might include strategic behavior such as choosing less - competitive high schools to make it easier to get the admission guarantee as well as changes in student effort and course - taking behavior.

I've seen such efforts sometimes dramatically change a student's behavior, and usually at least shift it slightly, allowing for positive reinforcement.

Their efforts are changing community behaviors when it comes to recycling and energy use.

A series of screen grabs from video taken by a Spring Valley High School student last year shows Ben Fields, a sheriff's deputy, forcibly removing a student from her desk after she refused to leave her high school math class in Columbia, S.C. Fields was fired, the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating, and the incident has sparked an effort in South Carolina to change a state law that can lead to students being arrested for behavior that is not considered a crime off school grounds.

We keep our fingers crossed and deliver support and services that we hope will make a difference, but rarely do; extensive, behavior - changing efforts that improve children's reading skills elude us,» writes Professor Nonie Lesaux.

«This is our effort to recognize that student behaviors should not be dealt with in a haphazard fashion, but they should be evaluated and changed as part of a comprehensive process that's measured and involves increasingly intensive action in a positive way.»

A meta - analysis conducted by Marzano, Waters, and McNulty (2005) found that several promotion - focused behaviors among school leadership are linked to higher levels of student achievement, including (1) serving as a change agent (challenging the status quo and leading efforts that have uncertain outcomes); (2) demonstrating flexibility (being comfortable with major changes and dissent); and (3) being an optimizer (encouraging innovation by portraying a positive attitude about teachers» ability to achieve what may seem to be beyond their grasp).

Coalition School for Social Change: Helping Students Build Effort is one of five case studies written on the Academic and Personal Behaviors Pilot, an initiative of the NYC Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Readiness.

Efforts are currently focused on documenting and reporting changes in students» academic achievement, school behavior, and knowledge of social and behavioral skills.

«We know from the success of national efforts like «Click It or Ticket» that combining good laws with effective enforcement and a strong public education campaign can — and does — change unsafe driving behavior,» said NHTSA Administrator David Strickland.

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Your cat has developed what seems like a compulsive behavior to destroy and eat parts of your furniture and you're going to have to put some effort into changing this.

Talk to your veterinarian before attempting to change your pet's behavior, because your efforts will likely fail if you're working with a sick cat.

However, generally speaking, for many behavior problems, an investment in time and effort is needed to create lasting change.

Applied animal behavior shares with experimental and theoretical efforts, the need for careful observation and documentation of behavior, identification of important variables, and the evaluation of behavioral changes following the systematic manipulation of identified variables.

One of the great paradoxes in today's world is that information is so easy to transmit — few places on earth are beyond the reach of cellphones or televisions — and yet our efforts to get life - saving, livelihood - boosting information to people in a form that sticks, a form that will actually change behavior, are frequently disappointing.

In measurable and immeasurable, small and large, ways students» efforts have mitigated damage to the planet by changing consciousness and behavior.

The model that I have described, warming due to the removal of anthropogenic SO2 aerosols, largely due to clean air efforts, perfectly matches the behavior of climate change over the past 40 years.

Because sea level behavior is such an important signal for tracking climate change, skeptics seize on the sea level record in an effort to cast doubt on this evidence.

This approach leads to an emphasis on addressing climate change by changing individual behavior via financial incentives or disincentives or through various communications efforts aimed at promoting lifestyle changes that reduce carbon emissions.

And if you believe, as do many conservatives, that government intervention in markets and in social arrangements should be kept to a minimum, you can find factual support for your views in the long - term unpredictability of regional climate behavior, the significant economic and social costs associated with shifting to more expensive energy sources, and the historical failure of government efforts to steer large - scale social and economic change.

Finally, like with most effective behavior - change efforts, a support group of family or peers helps to normalize new behaviors, provides supportive reminders and offers a sense of accountability to one another.

These projects included efforts to change the behavior of prostitutes, promote drug treatment for addicts, and strengthen the supervision of probationers.