What is really behavioral in behavioral health policy? And does it work?

Galizzi, Matteo M. ORCID: 0000-0002-7757-5625 (2014) What is really behavioral in behavioral health policy? And does it work? Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 36 (1). pp. 25-60. ISSN 2040-5790

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Across health systems, there is increasing interest in applying behavioral economics insights to health policy challenges. Policy decision makers have recently discussed a range of diverse health policy interventions that are commonly brought together under a behavioral umbrella. These include randomized controlled trials, comparison portals, information labels, financial incentives, sin taxes, and nudges. A taxonomy is proposed to classify such behavioral interventions. In the context of risky health behavior, each cluster of policies is then scrutinized under two respects: (i) What are its genuinely behavioral insights? (ii) What evidence exists on its practical effectiveness? The discussion highlights the main challenges in drawing a clear mapping between how much each policy is behaviorally inspired and its effectiveness.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://aepp.oxfordjournals.org/
Additional Information:	© 2014 The Author. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
Divisions:	Social Policy
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine
JEL classification:	C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C9 - Design of Experiments > C90 - General I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I1 - Health > I10 - General I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I1 - Health > I18 - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
Date Deposited:	04 Mar 2014 10:28
Last Modified:	01 Nov 2024 05:24
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/55969

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