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Behavioral Sciences Tips for Physical Distancing

May 1, 2020/in Technical Briefs Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics, Ideas42, Indlela, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Pennsylvania Global English, Français Social/Physical Distancing Policy Makers, Response Organizations/by Kathryn Sugg

This brief includes some concrete tips for how local and national governments and other institutions can use behavioral design to help slow the spread of COVID-19 in communities in low and middle-income countries around the world while facilitating social cohesion and the provision of essential services.

These include:

  • Make it easier for people to practice physical distancing in their communities by reshaping their environments.
  • Redesign how healthcare and other public services are delivered to facilitate physical distancing while ensuring essential service provision.
  • Lower the costs, both social and financial, associated with physical distancing.
  • Create new benefits and incentives to make physical distancing less painful and more sustainable for people to practice over time

Source (English): Behavioral Sciences Tips for Physical Distancing

Source (Français): Conseils de la Science du Comportement pour l’Eloignement Physique

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