Effective Interventions for Lifestyle Behaviors
It was part of the symposium “Accelerating the Pathway from Ideas to Efficacy: Developing More Effective Interventions for Lifestyle Behaviors Related to Chronic Diseases” sponsored by National Cancer Institute; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; National Institutes of Health Office of Disease Prevention; and the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research.
The purpose of the two-day event (September 28-29) was to highlight early-phase translational behavioral research studies aimed at improving behavioral risk factors for chronic diseases like cancer, cardiopulmonary diseases, and diabetes.