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Public health: is the glass half full or half empty?

Julia Segar By Filed Under: Featured Posted:

Dr Julia Segar was one of those out in force during Manchester Policy Week to hear Durham University’s Professor David Hunter and Manchester’s own Professor Steve Harrison ponder whether optimism or pessimism should prevail in the light of recent changes to the way public health is organised. The recent healthcare reforms have seen public health […]

NUDGE – influential book points to new policy directions?

Colin Talbot By Filed Under: Whitehall Watch Posted:

The influential new book “Nudge” (Thaler and Sunstein 2008) comes from the emerging field of behavioral economics, which investigates the non-rational ways in which people make decisions.

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