OBSSR’s strategic plans align with our mission and vision to enhance behavioral and social sciences research (BSSR) that improves health outcomes for all. Each plan highlights scientific priorities that reflect key research challenges OBSSR is uniquely positioned to address. Because BSSR provides valuable insights into human behavior—including how individuals and groups think, feel, behave, and interact—findings from BSSR can inform interventions and public health strategies to directly affect health outcomes.

Meeting Objectives

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Key Highlights and Action Items

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Key Highlights and Action Items

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What is Health Behavior Maintenance?

Health behavior maintenance is the ability to sustain health-related behaviors over the long term to maintain positive health outcomes. It’s crucial for managing treatments like heart failure medications, antiretroviral therapy, and insulin, as well as for lifestyle changes that prevent and manage conditions like obesity, cancer, heart disease, and diabetes. However, maintaining these behaviors can be challenging, and health care disparities and social determinants of health impact adherence.