 To promote adoption of household health technologies, think beyond healthM.C. Thurber, C. Warner, L. Platt, A. Slaski, R. Gupta and G. Miller American Journal of Public Health, 2013, vol. 103, issue 10, 1736-1740 Abstract: Health risks from poor malaria control, unsafe water, and indoor air pollution are responsible for an important share of the global disease burden - and they can be addressed by efficacious household health technologies that have existed for decades. However, coverage rates of these products among populations at risk remain disappointingly low. We conducted a review of the medical and public health literatures and found that health considerations alone are rarely sufficient motivation for households to adopt and use these technologies. In light of these findings, we argue that health education and persuasion campaigns by themselves are unlikely to be adequate. Instead, health policymakers and professionals must understand what users value beyond health and possibly reengineer health technologies with these concerns in mind. Keywords: attitude; environmental health; health; health promotion; housing; human; poverty; review; risk; technology, Attitude; Environmental Health; Health Promotion; Housing; Humans; Poverty Areas; Risk; Technology; World Health (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2013.301367_6 Access Statistics for this article American Journal of Public Health is currently edited by Alfredo Morabia More articles in American Journal of Public Health from American Public Health Association |
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