Communication - Practical Health Psychology

2026-05-012026-05-18Communication, Interventions, Patient engagement, Planning, Public Health

Mind the Gap: Embedding Equity in Everyday Practice

By Amanda O’Connor, Claire Blewitt and Helen Skouteris, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Health equity means that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to achieve good health, regardless of socioeconomic position, ethnicity, gender, or other social conditions. Yet, current global […]

2026-01-262026-03-27Behavioural theory, Communication, Interventions, Public Health

Supporting health workers in addressing vaccine hesitancy

By Dawn Holford, University of Bristol, UK, Linda Karlsson, University of Turku, Finland, Frederike Taubert, Erfurt University, Germany, Emma C. Anderson, University of Bristol, UK, Virginia C. Gould, University of Bristol, UK Correcting misconceptions about vaccination Vaccination is one of […]

2025-02-212025-11-04Communication, Interventions, Physical activity

Making Every Health Care Consultation Count: Promoting physical activity in health care settings

By Amanda Daley, Loughborough University, UK In the United Kingdom and Ireland, the Making Every Contact Count initiative aims to use the thousands of consultations that take place every day between health professionals and patients, to promote healthy behavioural changes. […]

2024-05-242025-11-04Communication

Understanding what influences organ donation

By Dr Lee Shepherd, Northumbria University, UK and Professor Ronan E. O’Carroll, University of Stirling, UK and Professor Eamonn Ferguson, University of Nottingham, UK There are numerous stories of how deceased organ transplantation has offered a lifeline for people. Indeed, […]

2023-03-222025-11-04Communication

Effective risk communication is about more than behaviour change: let’s talk about personal risk appraisals

By Victoria Woof and David French, Manchester Centre for Health Psychology, University of Manchester, UK Traditionally in medicine and health psychology, healthcare professionals have provided patients with their personalised disease risks with the aim of preventing disease. Where risk communication […]

2022-08-252025-11-04Communication

Lost (and found) in translation: Effective communication with patients

By Zuzana Dankulincova, Pavol Jozef Safarik University, Slovakia While most researchers are aware that disseminating study results is part of their ethical responsibility to research participants (and wish for their research findings to have clear, practical implications), the transition from […]

2021-11-252025-11-04Assessment, Communication, Illness representation, Stress and Coping

Helping patients manage their condition: Illness representations matter

By Yael Benyamini, Tel Aviv University, Israel and Evangelos C. Karademas, University of Crete, Greece Anna and Mary are both healthy 45-year-old women, living in a large European city. Each of them knows several people who have contracted COVID-19 and […]

2021-03-232025-11-04Communication, Goal setting

Διδάσκοντας δεξιότητες συνομιλίας σε επαγγελματίες υγείας

Wendy Lawrence, University of Southampton Οι κύριες αιτίες θανάτου και ασθενειών στην κοινωνία σήμερα επηρεάζονται από τις επιλογές του τρόπου ζωής μας και υπάρχει μια αυξανόμενη εστίαση στους τρόπους βελτίωσης των συμπεριφορών υγείας. Οι επαγγελματίες πρώτης γραμμής, ιδίως εκείνοι που […]

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