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SUMMARY:Mitchell centre Seminar Series
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DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Badham\nCentre for Public Health\nQueen’s University
  Belfast\n\nSimulating network intervention strategies: Implications for
  adoption of behaviour\n \nNetwork interventions involve purposeful effo
 rts to use social network data to help generate social in?uence\, accele
 rate behaviour change\, and/or achieve desirable outcomes among individu
 als\, communities\, organisations\, or populations. A recent review (Val
 ente\, 2012) identi?ed four broad approaches to using networks within pu
 blic health interventions\, such as identifying individuals to act as be
 haviour change agents based on their network properties\, or using an ex
 isting network to disseminate information. We have operationalised 15 su
 ch interventions and simulated behaviour change with two idealised mecha
 nisms. Preliminary results show that interventions that recruit central 
 individuals in the network generally result in faster adoption or a larg
 er proportion of the network adopting the behaviour. However\, anomalies
  occur for some networks and some sets of simulations\, indicating that 
 the best intervention choice is context dependent.\n 
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LOCATION:4.8\, Roscoe Building\, Manchester
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