Financial incentives to promote social mobility

Financial Incentives to Promote Active Travel

CONTEXT Financial incentives, including taxes and subsidies, can be used to encourage behavior change. They are common in transport policy for tackling externalities associated with use of motor vehicles, and in public health for influencing alcohol consumption and smoking behaviors. Financial incentives also offer policymakers a compromise between "nudging," which may be insufficient for chang...

Using financial incentives to promote shared mental health care.

OBJECTIVES To consider the most common primary care reimbursement structures, to identify incentives inherent in each, and to discuss how each could be used to encourage a shared-care approach to treating mental disorders at the primary care level. METHOD Three major financial reimbursement models--fee-for-service, capitation, and blended payment mechanisms--are examined. Each is considered i...

DietBet: A Web-Based Program that Uses Social Gaming and Financial Incentives to Promote Weight Loss

BACKGROUND Web-based commercial weight loss programs are increasing in popularity. Despite their significant public health potential, there is limited research on the effectiveness of such programs. OBJECTIVE The objective of our study was to examine weight losses produced by DietBet and explore whether baseline and engagement variables predict weight outcomes. METHODS DietBet is a social g...

Financial Incentives to Postpone Retirement

Financial incentives to promote smoking cessation: evidence from 11 quit and win contests.

In an effort footline to motivate smokers across New York State to stop smoking, tobacco control programs across the state held 'Quit and Win' incentive-based stop-smoking contests. These contests encouraged smokers to make a quit attempt by offering a chance to win cash prize (usually 1,000 dollars) for successfully stopping smoking for at least 1 month. Between 2001 and 2004, 11 different Qui...