Should we be invited to cancer screenings according to our individual cancer risk, rather than because we are a certain age or because we are male or female? Three community juries have concluded that this approach could be acceptable to the public, in research led by Becky Dennison and Juliet Usher-Smith at the University of […]
Public support for a policy can be increased by communicating evidence of its effectiveness
Small increases in public support for policies to address problems such as obesity, gun crime and climate change could be achieved by providing evidence about what works, according to the first systematic review of studies exploring the impact of communicating policy effectiveness on public support, published today in Royal Society Open Science. Concerted national and […]
Communicating evidence of policy effectiveness can increase public support, a new study from the University of Cambridge has found
Smoking and excessive consumption of alcohol and unhealthy snacks are leading causes of years of life lost globally. Promising interventions include nudging – changes to the physical environment that make healthier behaviours more likely – and taxation. Public acceptability of policies is increasingly recognised as playing a pivotal role in determining the extent to which […]