Carrots and sticks to promote healthy behaviors: A policy update

Hastings Center Report

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 13-16

  Blacksher, Erika ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHICS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; LIFESTYLE; MEDICAID; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUNISHMENT; REVIEW; REWARD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MEDICAID; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUNISHMENT; REWARD; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STEREOTYPING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 44849095468     PISSN: 00930334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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