Personal financial incentives can change habitual health-related behaviors and help reduce health inequalities .
However , their role in reducing disease burden is potentially limited given current evidence that effects dissipate beyond three months post-incentive removal
OBJECTIVES Uncertainty remains about whether personal financial incentives could achieve sustained changes in health-related behaviors that would reduce the fast-growing global non-communicable disease burden .
This review aims to estimate whether : i. financial incentives achieve sustained changes in smoking , eating , alcohol consumption and physical activity ; ii .
effectiveness is modified by ( a ) the target behavior , ( b ) incentive value and attainment certainty , ( c ) recipients ' deprivation level .
Work-site cardiovascular risk reduction: a randomized trial of health risk assessment, education, counseling, and incentives.
OBJECTIVES This study reports an efficacy trial of four work-site health promotion programs . It was predicted that strategies making use of behavioral counseling would produce a greater reduction in cardiovascular disease risk factors than screening and educational strategies . METHODS Twenty-eight work sites were r and omly allocated to a health risk assessment , risk factor education , behavioral counseling , or behavioral counseling plus incentives intervention . Participants were assessed before the intervention and at 3 , 6 , and 12 months . RESULTS Compared with the average of the health risk assessment and risk factor education conditions , there were significantly higher vali date d continuous smoking cessation rates and smaller increases in body mass index and estimated percentage of body fat in the two behavioral counseling conditions . The behavioral counseling condition was associated with a greater reduction in mean blood pressure than was the behavioral counseling plus incentives condition . On average among all groups , there was a short-term increase in aerobic capacity followed by a return to baseline levels . CONCLUSIONS Work-site interventions that use behavioral approaches can produce lasting changes in some cardiovascular risk factors and , if implemented routinely , can have a significant public health impact
Personal financial incentives can change habitual health-related behaviors and help reduce health inequalities .
However , their role in reducing disease burden is potentially limited given current evidence that effects dissipate beyond three months post-incentive removal
OBJECTIVES Uncertainty remains about whether personal financial incentives could achieve sustained changes in health-related behaviors that would reduce the fast-growing global non-communicable disease burden .
This review aims to estimate whether : i. financial incentives achieve sustained changes in smoking , eating , alcohol consumption and physical activity ; ii .
effectiveness is modified by ( a ) the target behavior , ( b ) incentive value and attainment certainty , ( c ) recipients ' deprivation level .