Reframing Health Behavior Change with Behavioral Economics

Name: Reframing Health Behavior Change with Behavioral Economics
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ISBN: 9780805827330

ISBN-10: 0805827331

ISBN-13: 9780805827330

Edition: 2000

Authors: Warren K. Bickel, Rudy E. Vuchinich, Una Campbell, Marilyn Carroll, Frank J. Chaloupka

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Behavioral economics is a rapidly developing area of psychological science that has synergistically merged microeconomic concepts with behavioral research methods. A driving force behind the growth of behavioral economics has been its recent application to behaviors that significantly affect health. The book examines the latest behavioral economic research on smoking, drug and alcohol abuse, obesity, gambling, and other poor health habits, and explores the implications for individual and community interventions and policy directions. This innovative book describes new concepts and methods developed in behavioral economics and applies them to understanding health behavior change. The…

Book details

List price: $170.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 2/1/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 448
Size: 7.20" wide x 9.33" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English



Foreword.



Preface




Behavioral Economic Concepts and Methods


A Behavioral Economics Primer.



Behavioral Economic Concepts and Methods for Studying Health Behavior




Price and Consumption


A Behavioral Economic Analysis of the Reinforcing Effects of Drugs: Transition States of Addiction



Economics and Antihealth Behavior: The Economic Analysis of Substance Use and Abuse




Substitutability Relations Between Activities


Economic Substitutability: Some Implications for Health Behavior



The Lonely Addict




Health Behavior as Intertemporal Choice


Self-Control and Health Behavior



Temporal Changes in the Value of Objects of Choice: Discounting, Behavior Patterns, and Health Behavior




Specific Health Behaviors: Help Seeking, Smoking, Eating, Exercise, and Gambling


Waiting to See the Doctor: The Role of Time Constraints in the Utilization of Health and Behavioral Health Services



Behavioral Economics of Tobacco Smoking



Behavioral Economics of Obesity: Food Intake and Energy Expenditure



Gambling in Socioeconomic Perspective




The Cultural Context of Health Behavior


The Tyranny of Small Decisions: Origins, Outcomes, and Proposed Solutions