We Can Do Better — Improving the Health of the American People

By Shattuck Lecture, S. Schroeder. 2007

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Subfields: Pharmacy, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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In Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

1. Heather Patrick
2. Geoffrey Williams
3. Richard M. Ryan
4. Edward L. Deci
5. George Loewenstein

Citations in the corpus

• From Ideas to Efficacy: The ORBIT Model for Developing Behavioral Treatments for Chronic Diseases (2015, background): “…to preventable behavioral factors such as smoking, unhealthy dietary intake, and sedentary lifestyle (Mokdad, Marks, Stroup, & Gerberding, 2004; Schroeder, 2007), all of which have been linked to major chronic illnesses such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes (Chakravarty, Hubert,…”
• Facilitating health behaviour change and its maintenance: Interventions based on Self-Determination Theory (2008, background): “Despite many recent technical breakthroughs in health care, human behaviour remains the largest source of variance in health-related outcomes (Schroeder, 2007).”
• The Economist as Therapist: Methodological Ramifications of 'Light' Paternalism (2007, background): “One recent estimate is that modifiable behaviors such as tobacco use, overeating, and alcohol abuse account for nearly one-third of all deaths in the United States [Flegal, Graubard, Williamson, and Gail, 2005; Schroeder, 2007].”