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Health psychology: Healthy choice architecture

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Small interventions in everyday public environments hold great potential to positively impact health behaviours. TIPPME is a framework that will provide consensus and definitional precision across intervention research into the purchase and consumption of tobacco, alcohol and food.

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Figure 1: Relationships between determinants of behaviour.

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  1. Institute of Health & Society, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Baddiley-Clark Building, Richardson Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4AX, UK

    Vera Araújo-Soares

  2. Institute of Health & Society and at Fuse, the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Baddiley-Clark Building, Richardson Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4AX, UK

    Falko F. Sniehotta

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