Sentence examples for fostering behaviour from inspiring English sources

The Children's Government acts as lead advocates in fostering behaviour change on key issues bordering on the welfare of children in their community.

16 The main outcome evaluation has shown positive effects of the intervention on walking, cycling and overall physical activity after 2 years, 17 and qualitative interviews have highlighted the potential importance of visibility of the new infrastructure in fostering behaviour change in local people.

Many previous studies stress that teachers could benefit significantly from the early identification of the negative behaviours and that awareness could support them in identifying and fostering behaviours that may better support children's adjustment to school (Ladd and Price [1987]; Pettit et al. [1997]).

They defined it as "a powerful strategy that uses marketing principles and techniques to foster behaviour change".

On the one hand, adherence to religion might foster behaviour that helps a nation to become rich.

Both objections can be countered with pragmatism: in tackling such a big issue, a council has to start somewhere; new planning permissions are the perfect instrument for fostering desirable behaviour.

Sufficient regularity of structural organisms plays an important part in fostering adequate behaviour of masonry building although the response of historic-URM (HURM) is greatly influenced by the strength of brick and mortar materials.

This could be explained by better birth preparedness being considered as an intervention fostering preventive behaviour and influencing other socio-economic and cultural barriers, thus encouraging the use of health facilities.

In order to consolidate the gains of the last decade, and contribute to lowering the burden of childhood morbidity and mortality, post-MDG goals for water and sanitation should focus on strengthening key WSH institutions, creating demand and ownership, and fostering sustainable behaviour change.

This suggests the influence and reach that parental role model plays in fostering health behaviours among their children.

Fundamental to the TTM model are a number of cognitive and behavioural strategies that help individuals progress from lower to higher levels of motivational readiness, with the aim of modifying attitudes and fostering specific behaviours.