Using healthcare wisely: psychosocial interventions to reduce unnecessary testing and treatment

过度使用医疗保健（使用不必要的检查和治疗）正在伤害患者，并从最需要的地方转移了稀缺的卫生资源。向公众、患者、临床医生和政策制定者有效沟通这一问题是改变行为的先决条件。该奖学金将开发一套基于通信的干预措施，以减少过度使用，并建立一支多学科的研究人员队伍，以解决全球卫生系统面临的这一紧迫问题。

Overuse of healthcare (use of unnecessary tests and treatments) is harming patients and diverting scarce health resources from where they are most needed. Effective communication of the problem to the public, patients, clinicians and policymakers is a prerequisite for behaviour change. This fellowship will develop a suite of communication-based interventions to reduce overuse and build a multidisciplinary workforce of researchers to address this urgent problem facing health systems globally.