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ReviewBMC public health2019

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

Ivo Vlaev, Dominic King, Ara Darzi, Paul Dolan

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Review in BMC public health, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06624358 (Physical Activity in Adolescents With Chronic Kidney Disease), which is not on this map. Cited by 147 papers, 16 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT06624358 narecruitingnot on this mapstarted 2025, after this paper: background citation

Physical Activity in Adolescents With Chronic Kidney Disease

TypeinterventionalSponsorChildren's Hospital of PhiladelphiaRan2025 to 2028Enrolled100ConditionsChronic Kidney DiseasesArmsIncrease Physical Activity
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

147 citing papers in PubMed, 16 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  4. Looking inside the lab: a systematic literature review of economic experiments in health service provision.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2024
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  15. A meta-analytic investigation of the role of reward on inhibitory control.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Ivo VlaevWarwick Business School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. ivo.vlaev@wbs.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3218-0144
Dominic KingCentre for Health Policy, Imperial College London, London, UK. d.king@imperial.ac.uk.
Ara DarziDepartment of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, UK.
Paul DolanDepartment of Psychological and Behavioural Science, London School of Economics, London, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundIncentives 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 incentive schemes to influence health behaviors, then it is important that we give them the best chance of working. Behavioral economics integrates insights from psychology with the laws of economics and provides a number of robust psychological phenomena that help to better explain human behavior. Individuals' decisions in relation to incentives may be shaped by more subtle features - such as loss aversion, overweighting of small probabilities, hyperbolic discounting, increasing payoffs, reference points - many of which have been identified through research in behavioral economics. If incentives are shown to be a useful strategy to influence health behavior, a wider discussion will need to be had about the ethical dimensions of incentives before their wider implementation in different health programmes.

conclusionsPolicy makers across the world are increasingly taking note of lessons from behavioral economics and this paper explores how key principles could help public health practitioners design effective interventions both in relation to incentive designs and more widely.

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Health BehaviorMotivationEconomics, BehavioralHumansRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicBehavioral economicsBehavior changeHealthcareIncentivesNudge

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PMID31391010
PMCPMC6686221

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