The Amsterdam Center for Health Communication (ACHC) strives to promote health through research on effective communication.

Published on September 21, 2023 – In order to decrease fall rates among community-dwelling older adults, local healthcare professionals often organize fall prevention programs. Still, the uptake of these programs is often low. This study shows: reframing ‘aging’ and ‘fall prevention’ may help promote fall prevention programs.   In the article […]
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Published on September 14, 2023 – During 4-8 September 2023, the 37th Annual Conference of the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) took place in Bremen, Germany. The main topic of the conference was Health Psychology for all: Equity, Inclusiveness and Transformation. Several ACHC members participated at the event, contributing with […]
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Published on June 29, 2023 – The article “Leaving traces behind: Using social media digital trace data to study adolescent wellbeing” by Mubashir Sultan, Christin Scholz and Wouter van den Bos provides a framework for studying relationships between social media usage and adolescent well-being using digital trace data.The authors highlight digital […]
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Published on June 22, 2023 – The Be-Prepared consortium (Behavioural Science for Pandemic Preparedeness) organised a round table during the ARPH conference, which took place on March 30-31, in Enschede. The round table was titled „International perspectives on COVID-19 research and the role of behavioural science during a global crisis”, and […]
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