Judging nudging: can nudging improve population health?

Marteau, Theresa M.; Ogilvie, David; Roland, Martín; Suhrcke, Marc; Kelly, Michael P.

doi:10.1136/bmj.d228

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“…This is particularly interesting considering that most known successes of default nudges are concerned with choices that are made once, for example, with regard to organ donation and selecting a pension plan (Johnson & Goldstein, 2003;Loewenstein, Bryce, Hagmann, & Rajpal, 2015). While nudges in general are praised as the ultimate tool to help people perform healthier behaviour there is paucity in empirical papers that study their long-term effects (Marteau et al, 2011). Nudges are in essence easy and cheap to implement, but if the nudge only works for a short period renewing the nudges to ensure the desired behaviour can actually break the bank.…”

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I’m still standing: A longitudinal study on the effect of a default nudge

Venema

Kroese

Ridder

2017

Psychology & Health

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“…One of the most pressing issues with nudges is that very little is known about the long-term effects (Marteau, Ogilvie, Roland, Suhrke, & Kelly, 2011). In order to improve health outcomes people need to reduce their sitting time for a longer period, not just for one day (Sherstha, Ijaz, Kukkonen-Harjula, Kumar, & Nwankwo, 2015).…”

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I’m still standing: A longitudinal study on the effect of a default nudge

Venema

Kroese

Ridder

2017

Psychology & Health

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“…Despite important points of difference, most behaviour change models presume that individuals are capable of making 'better' choices for themselves on the basis of information received, and that their well-being is in part an outcome of the decisions they make. This interpretation has been critiqued by Ioannou (2005), by Thompson and Kumar (2011) and most recently by nudge theory which reminds us that humans are only partly rational calculating assessors of information and often respond automatically to their immediate environments (Marteau, Ogilvie, Roland, Suhrcke, & Kelly, 2011). The evidence as to whether nudge may be applied with any effect to health-related behaviour change is, as yet, inconclusive (Hollands et al, 2013).…”

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Theories of practice and public health: understanding (un)healthy practices

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Psychological understandings and individualistic theories of human behaviour and behaviour change have dominated both academic research and interventions at the 'coalface' of public health. Meanwhile, efforts to understand persistent inequalities in health point to structural factors, but fail to show exactly how these translate into the daily lives (and hence health) of different sectors of the population. In this paper, we suggest that social theories of practice provide an alternative paradigm to both approaches, informing significantly new ways of conceptualising and responding to some of the most pressing contemporary challenges in public health. We introduce and discuss the relevance of such an approach with reference to tobacco smoking, focusing on the life course of smoking as a practice, rather than on the characteristics of individual smokers or on broad social determinants of health. This move forces us to consider the material and symbolic elements of which smoking is comprised, and to follow the ways in which these elements have changed over time. Some of these developments have to do with the relation between smoking and other practices such as drinking alcohol, relaxing and socialising. We suggest that intervening in the future of smoking depends, in part, on understanding the nature of these alliances, and how sets of practices co-evolve. We conclude by reflecting on the implications of taking social practices as the central focus of public health policy, commenting on the benefits of such a paradigmatic turn, and on the challenges that this presents for established methods, policies and programmes.

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“…The intention-behaviour gap 11 is one of the reasons why motivation-based techniques targeting system 2 processes to change health-related behaviour often have only modest results. 12 In that respect, nudging can provide a valuable complement, as it targets automatic, affective processes by altering environmental cues. People often use heuristics and biases as a shortcut when making decisions.…”

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A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness of nudging to increase fruit and vegetable choice

Broers

Breucker

Broucke

et al. 2017

European Journal of Public Health

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BACKGROUND: Nudging refers to interventions that organize the choice architecture in order to alter people's behaviour in a predictable way without forbidding any options or significantly changing their economic incentives. As a strategy to encourage healthy behaviour, nudging can serve as a complement to health education. However, the empirical evidence regarding the effectiveness of nudging as a way to influence food choice remains contradictory. To address this issue, a systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted to test the effects of nudging to encourage people to select more fruit and vegetables. METHODS: A systematic literature search was performed on PubMed, Medline, PsycInfo, Cochrane library, Scopus and Google Scholar. After quality assessment, 20 articles (23 studies) were retained for narrative synthesis. Twelve articles (14 studies) contained enough information to calculate effect-sizes for meta-analysis using Comprehensive Meta-analysis software. RESULTS: The meta...

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Judging nudging: can nudging improve population health?

Abstract: Nudging has captured the imagination of the public, researchers, and policy makers as a way of changing human behaviour, with both the UK and US governments embracing it. Theresa Marteau and colleagues ask whether the concept stands up to scientific scrutiny

Cited by 476 publications

References 27 publications

I’m still standing: A longitudinal study on the effect of a default nudge

I’m still standing: A longitudinal study on the effect of a default nudge

Theories of practice and public health: understanding (un)healthy practices

A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness of nudging to increase fruit and vegetable choice

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