Book contents
- Behavioural Incentive Design for Health Policy
- Behavioural Incentive Design for Health Policy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Glossary
- 1 Behavioural Incentives and Health
- 2 Behavioural Learning and the Design of Incentives
- 3 Monetary Incentives for Health
- 4 Social Incentives for Health Behaviours
- 5 Nudging for Better Health
- 6 Social Preferences and Health
- 7 Behavioural Incentives for Health Behaviours
- 8 Behavioural Anomalies in the Demand for Health Care
- 9 Behavioural Anomalies in the Healthcare Supply
- 10 Behavioural Health Insurance Uptake
- 11 Ageing and Caregiving Decisions Over Time
- 12 Policy Applications from a Global Perspective
- References
- Index
8 - Behavioural Anomalies in the Demand for Health Care
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 May 2023
- Behavioural Incentive Design for Health Policy
- Behavioural Incentive Design for Health Policy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Glossary
- 1 Behavioural Incentives and Health
- 2 Behavioural Learning and the Design of Incentives
- 3 Monetary Incentives for Health
- 4 Social Incentives for Health Behaviours
- 5 Nudging for Better Health
- 6 Social Preferences and Health
- 7 Behavioural Incentives for Health Behaviours
- 8 Behavioural Anomalies in the Demand for Health Care
- 9 Behavioural Anomalies in the Healthcare Supply
- 10 Behavioural Health Insurance Uptake
- 11 Ageing and Caregiving Decisions Over Time
- 12 Policy Applications from a Global Perspective
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter focuses on how patients use health-care services. It addresses screening and medication adherence, vaccination (including COVID-19), and self-management of chronic diseases. The realities of health-care decision-making include both direct and opportunity costs (e.g. time it takes for screening, preparing for screening, side effects).This chapter begins with the biases that influence patients’ decisions about healthcare use including preventative care and self-management. Then, with an understanding of how these biases emerge in many contexts, the chapter discusses tools from behavioural economics that could help. Finally, the chapter goes through several examples where we know something about how behavioural economics can help (or not!).
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- Behavioural Incentive Design for Health PolicySteering for Health, pp. 111 - 124Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023