Health intervention

Health intervention

A health intervention is an effort to promote good health behaviour such as physical exercise or to prevent bad health behaviours, e.g. promoting tobacco smoking cessation or discouraging the use of illicit drugs or excessive drinking.

Health interventions may be run by a variety of organizations, including departments of health and private organizations.


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