What Is Really Behavioral in Behavioral Health Policy? And Does It Work?. Galizzi, M. M. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 36(1):25--60, March, 2014.
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Across health systems, there is increasing interest in applying behavioral economics insights to health policy challenges. Policy decision makers have recently discussed a range of diverse health policy interventions that are commonly brought together under a behavioral umbrella. These include randomized controlled trials, comparison portals, information labels, financial incentives, sin taxes, and nudges. A taxonomy is proposed to classify such behavioral interventions. In the context of risky health behavior, each cluster of policies is then scrutinized under two respects: (i) What are its genuinely behavioral insights? (ii) What evidence exists on its practical effectiveness? The discussion highlights the main challenges in drawing a clear mapping between how much each policy is behaviorally inspired and its effectiveness.
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	volume = {36},
	issn = {2040-5790, 2040-5804},
	shorttitle = {What {Is} {Really} {Behavioral} in {Behavioral} {Health} {Policy}?},
	url = {http://aepp.oxfordjournals.org/content/36/1/25},
	doi = {10.1093/aepp/ppt036},
	abstract = {Across health systems, there is increasing interest in applying behavioral economics insights to health policy challenges. Policy decision makers have recently discussed a range of diverse health policy interventions that are commonly brought together under a behavioral umbrella. These include randomized controlled trials, comparison portals, information labels, financial incentives, sin taxes, and nudges. A taxonomy is proposed to classify such behavioral interventions. In the context of risky health behavior, each cluster of policies is then scrutinized under two respects: (i) What are its genuinely behavioral insights? (ii) What evidence exists on its practical effectiveness? The discussion highlights the main challenges in drawing a clear mapping between how much each policy is behaviorally inspired and its effectiveness.},
	language = {en},
	number = {1},
	urldate = {2014-03-03},
	journal = {Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy},
	author = {Galizzi, Matteo M.},
	month = mar,
	year = {2014},
	keywords = {Behavioral economics, Behavioral policy, C90, D03, Health behavior, I10, I18, Nudges},
	pages = {25--60},
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