Health Behavior Maintenance

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.

Strengthening Clinical Research Integrity: Updated Good Clinical Practice Training Now Available

In 2016, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued a policy establishing an expectation that all NIH-funded investigators and staff involved in conducting, overseeing, or managing clinical trials should be trained in Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and should refresh their training at least every three years. The purpose of GCP is to ensure the safety, integrity, and quality of clinical trials.

White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Releases Blueprint for the Use of Social and Behavioral Sciences to Advance Evidence-Based Policymaking

Delivering effective policies and programs that benefit all Americans means using every tool at our disposal. Specifically, integrating social and behavioral sciences is critical for federal policies and programs to achieve their intended outcomes.

A Q&A with WALS Lecturer Jenny Tung on her research with primates and advice for aspiring scientists

The NIH Director’s Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series, colloquially known as WALS, is the highest-profile lecture program at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The speakers are some of the most prominent biomedical and behavioral scientists and are nominated by staff from across the National Institutes of Health.

The Science of Social Connection

Thanks to digital technologies, we live in an era of unprecedented connectivity. Yet, paradoxically, data indicate about one in four adults in America report experiencing loneliness. The COVID-19 pandemic only accelerated trends that were already in place, with young adults, people earning lower incomes, and people from groups that have been economically and socially marginalized more likely to experience loneliness.

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