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Behaviour change: general approaches

  • Public health guideline
  • Reference number: PH6
  • Published:  24 October 2007
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Minor changes since publication

December 2017: Recommendations in principle 1 were replaced with a link to recommendations 1 to 6 NICE's guideline on behaviour change: individual approaches. Links were also added to principles 4 and 7.

October 2013: The guideline title was changed, it was previously called behaviour change.

ISBN: 978-1-4731-2774-6


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