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Incorporating behaviour change into healthcare interventions
Summary and recording from our forum “Behaviour change - it's more than just willpower” on 23rd November 2023.
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Policy
The ultimate aim of the project is to provide policymakers, healthcare decision makers and health service commissioners with a cost effective, evidenced-based healthcare intervention to help prevent maternal and child diabetes.
Technology can help make healthcare systems more sustainable by empowering patients, freeing up professional capacity and reaching more people than ever.
Using smartphone technology, the Bump2Baby and Me intervention may provide a low resource system of care for appropriate weight management and improved outcomes for both mother and baby. Remote delivery of healthcare can help to enable equality of access, help reach more women, and has been proven to be essential during the recent pandemic.
We hope to show that using technology in this way will have positive health outcomes for both mums and their babies, supporting early intervention and reducing the long-term demand for health services. This approach is completely novel and expected to be low-cost, making the Bump2Baby and Me mHealth coaching programme a potential game changer.
It is hoped that at the end of the project the Bump2Baby and Me mHealth coaching programme will be rolled out across maternity services, including those in low- to middle-income countries.
How to engage with us
There are a number of ways for policy and health stakeholders to connect to the Bump2Baby and Me project.
Forum Meetings
The aim of forum meetings is to ensure there is effective, bi-directional dialogue and exchange of information between policy and health stakeholders and researchers. The next meeting will be held on Wednesday 20th November 2024.
Policy Communications
The latest project news and information will be shared via social media, the project website and press releases and at conferences and events. Please follow us on X, LinkedIn or sign up for news and updates.
Workshops
A series of four workshops will be held, one in each country, at the end of the project. The aim of these workshops will be to disseminate the findings of the project and to roll out the Implementation Toolkit.
Policy Options
At the end of the project, Policy Options, including economic justifications for implementation of the Bump2Baby and Me intervention, will be the final and definitive communication to policymakers.