Making Healthy Choices Easier: Regulation versus Nudging

Annual Review of Public Health

Volumn 37, Issue , 2016, Pages 237-251

  Hansen, Pelle Guldborg ^a   Skov, Laurits Rohden ^b   Skov, Katrine Lund ^c  

^a ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c Danish Nudging Network   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Libertarian paternalism; Nudge; Policy; Public health

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; ORGAN DONOR; PATERNALISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; DECISION MAKING; DIET; ETHICS; EXERCISE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MOTIVATION; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; TRANSPLANTATION;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; DIET; EXERCISE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT;

EID: 84982816985     PISSN: 01637525     EISSN: 15452093     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-032315-021537     Document Type: Review

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