Behavioral Economics and Public Health
Ichiro Kawachi editor Christina A Roberto editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Published:8th Oct '15
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Behavioral economics has potential to offer novel solutions to some of today's most pressing public health problems: How do we persuade people to eat healthy and lose weight? How can health professionals communicate health risks in a way that is heeded? How can food labeling be modified to inform healthy food choices? Behavioral Economics and Public Health is the first book to apply the groundbreaking insights of behavioral economics to the persisting problems of health behaviors and behavior change. In addition to providing a primer on the behavioral economics principles that are most relevant to public health, this book offers details on how these principles can be employed to mitigating the world's greatest health threats, including obesity, smoking, risky sexual behavior, and excessive drinking. With contributions from an international team of scholars from psychology, economics, marketing, public health, and medicine, this book is a trailblazing new approach to the most difficult and important problems of our time.
Roberto and Kawachi have put together a collection of insights that health policy professionals will need to understand to create the largest impacts moving forward." -Max H. Bazerman, Straus Professor and Co-Director, Center for Public Leadership, Harvard University; Author, THE POWER OF NOTICING
Want to promote healthy behavior? Make sure you understand the ideas in this important book." -Peter A Ubel, Madge and Dennis T. McLawhorn University Professor, Schools of Business, Public Policy, and Medicine, Duke University
ISBN: 9780199398331
Dimensions: 152mm x 231mm x 28mm
Weight: 499g
384 pages