Changing health behaviors using financial incentives: a review from behavioral economics

• Main Authors: Ivo Vlaev (Author), Dominic King (Author), Ara Darzi (Author), Paul Dolan (Author)
• Formato: Libro
• Publicado: BMC, 2019-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Incentives are central to economics and are used across the public and private sectors to influence behavior. Recent interest has been shown in using financial incentives to promote desirable health behaviors and discourage unhealthy ones. Main text If we are going to use incenti...