Klimaschutz und Gesundheitsförderung: Über den Wert sozial- und verhaltenswissenschaftlicher Ansätze

"Jetzt oder Nie" ("Now or Never,") edited by Jürgen Graalmann, Eckart von Hirschhausen and Kerstin Blum  Stiftung Gesunde Erde - Gesunde Menschen), takes a look at the special role and impact of health care, including how health care can act as a driver for the transformation of society toward sustainability and climate protection.

"Klimaschutz und Gesundheitsförderung: Über den Wert sozial- und verhaltenswissenschaftlicher Ansätze" (Climate Protection and Health Promotion: On the Value of Social and Behavioral Science Approaches) is the title of the article that Mirjam A. Jenny, Jule M. Schmitz, and Cornelia Betsch have now contributed to the book.

A climate and health policy that understands human behavior can effectively change behavior through cleverly set framework conditions, the authors write in their article. If public health decision makers give central consideration to those factors that promote behavior change, climate and health policy decisions can be better explained, misinformation can be prevented and contained, socially just policies can be implemented, and collateral damage at the systemic and individual levels can be minimized.