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

I Vlaev, D King, A Darzi, P Dolan - BMC public health, 2019 - Springer
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 …

Unhealthy diets, obesity and time discounting: a systematic literature review and network analysis

P Barlow, A Reeves, M McKee, G Galea… - Obesity …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
There is an increasing policy commitment to address the avoidable burdens of unhealthy
diet, overweight and obesity. However, to design effective policies, it is important to …

Do financial incentives increase mental health treatment engagement? A meta-analysis.

GK Khazanov, PE Morris, A Beed… - Journal of consulting …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: Engagement in mental health treatment is low, which can lead to poor outcomes.
We evaluated the efficacy of offering patients financial incentives to increase their mental …

Effectiveness and acceptability of parental financial incentives and quasi-mandatory schemes for increasing uptake of vaccinations in preschool children: systematic …

J Adams, B Bateman, F Becker… - Health technology …, 2015 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
Effectiveness and acceptability of parental financial incentives and quasi-mandatory schemes
for increasing uptake of vaccinatio Page 1 HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT VOLUME …

Acceptability of financial incentives for health-related behavior change: an updated systematic review

K Hoskins, CM Ulrich, J Shinnick, AM Buttenheim - Preventive Medicine, 2019 - Elsevier
Despite the successes of financial incentives in increasing uptake of evidence-based
interventions, acceptability is polarized. Given widespread interest in the use of financial …

The Situated Assessment Method (SAM2): Establishing individual differences in habitual behavior

L Dutriaux, NE Clark, EK Papies, C Scheepers… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
From the perspectives of grounded, situated, and embodied cognition, we have developed a
new approach for assessing individual differences. Because this approach is grounded in …

Paying people to lose weight: the effectiveness of financial incentives provided by health insurers for the prevention and management of overweight and obesity–a …

J Ananthapavan, A Peterson, G Sacks - Obesity reviews, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Curbing the obesity epidemic is likely to require a suite of interventions targeting the
obesogenic environment as well as individual behaviour. Evidence suggests that the …

Effectiveness and usability of digital tools to support dietary self-management of gestational diabetes mellitus: a systematic review

N Adesina, H Dogan, S Green, F Tsofliou - Nutrients, 2021 - mdpi.com
Advice on dietary intake is an essential first line intervention for the management of
gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). Digital tools such as web-based and smartphone apps …

Can an incentive-based intervention increase physical activity and reduce sitting among adults? the ACHIEVE (Active Choices IncEntiVE) feasibility study

K Ball, RF Hunter, JL Maple, M Moodie… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Springer
Background Despite recent interest in the potential of incentivisation as a strategy for
motivating healthier behaviors, little remains known about the effectiveness of incentives in …

Acceptability of financial incentives for health behaviour change to public health policymakers: a qualitative study

EL Giles, FF Sniehotta, E McColl, J Adams - BMC Public Health, 2016 - Springer
Background Providing financial incentives contingent on healthy behaviours is one way to
encourage healthy behaviours. However, there remains substantial concerns with the …