Oh, Behave!

Bob & Jay
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Oh, Behave! Podcast

Getting people to change their health behaviors can be extremely challenging. Especially, since everyone has their own unique set of barriers that are often shifting on a regular basis. Join Bob Bensley, professor of public health, and Jay Rivas, CEO of Maia Synergy as they explore the tapestry of existing health products and services - unraveling the behavioral science and technology woven together to solve complex health issues. If you're a professional looking to improve your health and wellness program or you're wanting to create a program from scratch, this podcast will give you plenty of solutions, strategies, and techniques to draw from.

Episodes

  1. 25/05/2021

    Five Key Principles of Online Behavior Change

    This is the season one finale! In this episode we pull together everything we've covered over the past nine weeks under the umbrella of our five key principles of online behavior change: Recreating the human experience, personalizing to the individual, creating a dynamic experience, including a supportive environment, and building upon sound theory.

    36 min

  2. 18/05/2021

    Creating Change Part 4: Evaluating Your Health Program

    This is the final part of our four-part series called Creating Change. In this miniseries, we've been walking you through the four-step process entrepreneurs and non-profit leaders should follow to create an effective program for their audience. For this episode, we invited our expert data analyst, John Brusk to join us in discussing the evaluation process - like what to include in your evaluation plan, what questions to ask, and how to evaluate your program on a limited budget.

    42 min

  3. 11/05/2021

    Creating Change Part 3: Launching Your Program

    This is part three of our four-part series called Creating Change. In this miniseries, we'll be walking you through the four-step process entrepreneurs and non-profit leaders should follow to create an effective program for their audience. In this episode, we focus on the implementation process and discuss the art of monitoring, iterating, and promoting your program.

    40 min

  4. 04/05/2021

    Creating Change Part 2: Roadmap to Success

    This is the second of a four-part series called Creating Change. In this miniseries, we'll be walking you through the four-step process entrepreneurs and non-profit leaders should follow to create an effective program for their audience. This episode will focus on planning your program or service by creating a roadmap that will utilize your assessment results to set your goals, define the resources you'll need, the activities you'll carry out, and the results you're expecting.

    52 min

  5. 27/04/2021

    A Brief Announcement

    Just a quick heads up on what's happening with this week's episode...

    1 min

  6. 20/04/2021

    Creating Change Part 1: Know Your Audience

    This is the first of a four-part series called Creating Change. In this miniseries, we'll be walking you through the four-step process entrepreneurs and non-profit leaders should follow to create an effective program for their audience. This episode will focus on the needs assessment - also referred to as the user-centered approach. We'll discuss how knowing your audience can reduce your risk of creating an unsuccessful product or program and we'll cover the best techniques for gathering the ...

    40 min

  7. 13/04/2021

    The Power of the Food Industry

    The food decisions we make - what we buy and eat - are heavily influenced by the strategies and tactics of the food industry. In this episode, we dive into many of those tactics and discuss what individual consumers, as well as leaders in non-profit and government sectors, can do to overcome these health-related challenges.

    38 min

  8. 06/04/2021

    The COVID Fallout

    The COVID pandemic brought thousands of tragic deaths and shuttered nearly 100,000 businesses leaving many in financial ruin. But others were impacted in ways that we are just beginning to understand and see. In this episode, we'll look closer at how COVID is impacting education, mental wellness, and domestic violence in this country.

    49 min

  9. 30/03/2021

    Hacking Health Literacy

    Breaking down health literacy to better understand what it is and how it can impact communication between you and your clients or customers. We share lots of examples and give plenty of strategies for overcoming this obstacle.

    45 min

  10. 23/03/2021

    Facing Food Insecurity

    We breakdown two issues that affect nearly 1 in 6 households in America - food insecurity and food access - taking a deep dive into how the COVID epidemic has intensified these issues and what sort of technology could help reverse the trends.

    41 min

  11. 16/03/2021

    Luxury of Health: The Right To Be Fit

    Is the health and fitness industry fair and equitable? And why is it so hard to be healthy with all the technology available today?

    38 min
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About

Getting people to change their health behaviors can be extremely challenging. Especially, since everyone has their own unique set of barriers that are often shifting on a regular basis. Join Bob Bensley, professor of public health, and Jay Rivas, CEO of Maia Synergy as they explore the tapestry of existing health products and services - unraveling the behavioral science and technology woven together to solve complex health issues. If you're a professional looking to improve your health and wellness program or you're wanting to create a program from scratch, this podcast will give you plenty of solutions, strategies, and techniques to draw from.

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  • Creator
    Bob & Jay
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    11
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2022 Oh, Behave!
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