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Public health programs can 'rewire' social networks, study finds

Source: Phys.org · Published 22 Oct 2026, 21:00

An educational program intended to improve maternal and child health fundamentally altered the social fabric of the rural Honduran villages where it was implemented, a new Yale-led study finds. The findings, researchers say, have implications for interventions anywhere that seek to improve people's well-being by disseminating information or changing behaviors through social contagion.

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