VT behavior expert edits special journal issue on solving chronic health challenges

(University of Vermont College of Medicine) Effectively promoting health-related behavior change needs to be a key component of health care research and policy. And while these problems extend throughout the population, they disproportionately impact economically disadvantaged populations and other vulnerable populations and represent a major contributor to health disparities. To share the latest research in effectively managing these problems, Stephen T. Higgins, Ph.D., UVM professor of psychiatry and director of the VCBH, collaborated with experts on a third annual special issue of Preventive Medicine.

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