Health Behaviours 

People’s health related behaviours are influenced by a range of factors including social, economic and physical environment and mental wellbeing. Evidence-based interventions will make it easier for people to adopt healthy behaviours.  

• Understanding the role of health beliefs amongst adults engaging with secondary and tertiary preventive services to live well with type 2 diabetes: a rapid review (2025)

• Self-testing for HIV: Behavioural determinants that influence uptake, and interventions to increase uptake. A summary of two scoping reviews (2024)

• A rapid review of the effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions for people with anxiety and/or depression living within the community (2024)
• Why are cases of non-melanoma skin cancer increasing in Wales: An agile scope of the literature (2024)
• Universal, whole system and settings-based interventions for stabilizing or reducing the prevalence of overweight and obesity (2024)
• Tobacco cessation interventions digital evidence map 
• Tobacco prevention and de-normalisation intervention digital evidence map
• Interventions to increase physical activity digital evidence map 
• Primary prevention of substance misuse digital evidence map
• Prehabilitation interventions for patients on elective surgical waiting lists (2024)
• Topic evidence summary: Interventions to increase active travel (2022) [full report]
• Topic evidence summary: Interventions to increase active travel (2022) [one page brief]
• Evidence base for risk and protective factors associated with smoking initiation and cessation: A brief scope of the literature (2022)
• Interventions to prevent and reduce harm from alcohol digital evidence map  
• Management of hypertension evidence map (Last reviewed: September 2021)*
• Obesity, diet and nutrition evidence review technical report (2019)
• Physical activity evidence review technical report 
• Qualitative systematic review on attitudes and beliefs around the development of drug misuse. Technical summary (2021)  
• What are the risk and protective factors for drug misuse? What attitudes and beliefs do people hold about the development of drug misuse? Summary of findings from two systematic reviews (2021) 
• What are the risk and protective factors for drug misuse? Technical summary (2021) 

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