Redesigning employee health incentives - Lessons from behavioral economics

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 365, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 388-390

  Volpp, Kevin G ^a,b   Asch, David A ^a,b   Galvin, Robert ^c,d   Loewenstein, George ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c Equity Healthcare   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYEE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INCOME; OBESITY; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; SHORT SURVEY; SMOKING;

EID: 79961113322     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1105966     Document Type: Short Survey

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