Kuwait: D. Dana Tarah: The need to understand community behaviours when preparing programs and designing interventions to influence and change individuals’ behaviour towards health patterns.
Under the National Strategy for Prevention and Response of Chronic Diseases, to build capacity and develop skills of non-communicable chronic diseases workers and to ensure the ongoing medical education program, the Department of “Prevention and Response of Non-Communicable Diseases” was held at the Ministry of Health Workshop titled “Influence and Behavior Change”, presented by Dr Dana Al-Tarah, Professor Assistant at Faculty of Public Health at Kuwait University.
At the beginning of the workshop, Dr Hammoud Al-Zaabi, Director of the “Management of Prevention and Response of Non-Contagious Chronic Diseases”, explained the importance of combating non-communicable chronic diseases, which cause about 65% of deaths in the State of Kuwait, reviewing the objectives of the future plan, and the most important interventions and initiatives, and performance indicators.
In which you touch the Dr Dana Al-Tarrah on the importance of understanding community behaviours when preparing programs, designing interventions to influence and change the behaviour of individuals towards health styles, and she explained the key theories of change of behaviour, influence and ways to apply them.
This workshop was attended by a number of departments and stakeholders in the Ministry of Health, interested in awareness and the fight against non-communicable chronic diseases.
