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Public health interventions can increase objective and perceived control by supporting people to enact the choices they want to make

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2017

Jean Adams
Jean Adams*
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Centre for Diet & Activity Research, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK. jma79@medschl.cam.ac.uk http://www.cedar.iph.cam.ac.uk/people/leads/jean-adams/
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Abstract

“Low-agency” public health interventions do not rely on individuals using their personal resources to benefit. These help people enact the choices they wish to make and are likely to increase objective and perceived control. Lower-agency interventions have been criticised as constraining individual choice. Pepper & Nettle show that this is unlikely to be the case.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e315
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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