ArticleHealth expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy2013
Financial incentives to encourage healthy behaviour: an analysis of U.K. media coverage.
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- Public attitudes towards pricing policies to change health-related behaviours: a UK focus group study.European journal of public health · 2015Article
- Acceptability of financial incentives and penalties for encouraging uptake of healthy behaviours: focus groups.BMC public health · 2015Article
- Moral responsibility for (un)healthy behaviour.Journal of medical ethics · 2013Article
- When do financial incentives reduce intrinsic motivation? comparing behaviors studied in psychological and economic literatures.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2013Review
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- Financial incentives for smoking cessation in pregnancy: protocol for a single arm intervention study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2013Article
- "Pay them if it works": discrete choice experiments on the acceptability of financial incentives to change health related behaviour.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2012Article
- Financial incentives to promote active travel: an evidence review and economic framework.American journal of preventive medicine · 2012Review
- Acceptability of financial incentives to improve health outcomes in UK and US samples.Journal of medical ethics · 2011Article
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Abstract
backgroundPolicies to use financial incentives to encourage healthy behaviour are controversial. Much of this controversy is played out in the mass media, both reflecting and shaping public opinion.
objectiveTo describe U.K. mass media coverage of incentive schemes, comparing schemes targeted at different client groups and assessing the relative prominence of the views of different interest groups.
designThematic content analysis. SUBJECTS: National and local news coverage in newspapers, news media targeted at health-care providers and popular websites between January 2005 and February 2010.
settingU.K. mass media.
resultsThe study included 210 articles. Fifteen separate arguments favourable towards schemes, and 19 unfavourable, were identified. Overall, coverage was more favourable than unfavourable, although most articles reported a mix of views. Arguments about the prevalence and seriousness of the health problems targeted by incentive schemes were uncontested. Moral and ethical objections to such schemes were common, focused in particular on recipients such as drug users or the overweight who were already stereotyped as morally deficient, and these arguments were largely uncontested. Arguments about the effectiveness of schemes and their potential for benefit or harm were areas of greater contestation. Government, public health and other health-care provider interests dominated favourable coverage; opposition came from rival politicians, taxpayers' representatives, certain charities and from some journalists themselves.
conclusionsThose promoting incentive schemes for people who might be regarded as 'undeserving' should plan a media strategy that anticipates their public reception.
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