Nudging health : health law and behavioral economics

The Resource Nudging health : health law and behavioral economics
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Nudging health : health law and behavioral economics
Title remainder
health law and behavioral economics
Statement of responsibility
edited by I. Glenn Cohen, Holly Fernandez Lynch, Christopher T. Robertson ; foreword by Cass R. Sunstein
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Editor
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
"Behavioral nudges are everywhere: calorie counts on menus, automated text reminders to encourage medication adherence, a reminder bell when a driver's seatbelt isn't fastened. Designed to help people make better health choices, these reminders have become so commonplace that they often go unnoticed. In Nudging Health, forty-five experts in behavioral science and health policy from across academia, government, and private industry come together to explore whether and how these tools are effective in improving health outcomes. Behavioral science has swept the fields of economics and law through the study of nudges, cognitive biases, and decisional heuristics-but it has only recently begun to impact the conversation on health care. Nudging Health wrestles with some of the thorny philosophical issues, legal limits, and conceptual questions raised by behavioral science as applied to health law and policy. The volume frames the fundamental issues surrounding health nudges by addressing ethical questions. Does cost-sharing for health expenditures cause patients to make poor decisions?Is it right to make it difficult for people to opt out of having their organs harvested for donation when they die? Are behavioral nudges paternalistic? The contributors examine specific applications of behavioral science, including efforts to address health care costs, improve vaccination rates, and encourage better decision-making by physicians. They wrestle with questions regarding the doctor-patient relationship and defaults in healthcare while engaging with larger, timely questions of healthcare reform." --Publisher's website
Cataloging source
DNLM/DLC
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
RA971.3
LC item number
.N83 2016
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
NLM call number
WA 525
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