Behavioural Policies for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Benjamin Ewert is a social and political scientist at Heidelberg School of Education, Germany. There he is part of the research cluster Society & Health. Benjamin is interested in theoretical and empirical questions in the realm of public policy and public health. He especially focuses on service users and citizenship issues.Kathrin Loer is a political scientist at the FernUniversitaet in Hagen, Germany. After working as a political consultant in health policy she returned to academia in 2013. Her research focuses on health and consumer policies but also on theoretical topics in public policy. Current research projects aim at linking theoretical and conceptual questions of public policy with empirical research on health and energy policy.

• Chapter 1. Understanding the challenges in public health policymaking: Introduction.- Chapter 2. Underlying assumptions in health promotion policymaking.- Chapter 3. Approaches and instruments in health promotion and the prevention of diseases.- Chapter 4. Healthy nations: behavioural approaches in public health policy.- Chapter 5. Who are the policymakers and what are their interests?.- Chapter 6. Conclusion: Towards a behaviourally-informed health citizenship.