TY - JOUR T1 - The centrality of behavior change in health systems development – Author's response JF - Global Health: Science and Practice JO - GLOB HEALTH SCI PRACT SP - 134 LP - 134 DO - 10.9745/GHSP-D-14-00005 VL - 2 IS - 1 AU - James D Shelton, Editor-in-Chief Y1 - 2014/02/01 UR - http://www.ghspjournal.org/content/2/1/134.abstract N2 - I heartily welcome Naimoli, Parker, and Heiby's endorsement of behavior change interventions,1 as well as their elaboration on behavior change best practices. I maintain my view, however, that behavior change is underappreciated: (1) in its crucial role across all the 6 domains of health interventions, and (2) specifically in the way health systems are conceptualized.I also admire Naimoli and colleagues' enlightened view in seeing elements of behavior in each of the World Health Organization (WHO) health system building blocks. One can indeed thus say behavior change is “everywhere.” But it is all too often true that things can be categorized as everywhere, or “overarching,” yet be easily overlooked and … ER -