As you probably know, health behavior is very hard to change.
Many factors affect our behavior choices.
Using incentives to encourage behavior change is intended to act as an additional enticement to help people initiate and maintain health related behaviors. While incentive campaigns are a great way to get employees excited about behavior change, they should be viewed as ONE aspect of a comprehensive approach to health behavior change in the workplace. Incentives can be used to accomplish many different things in the context of a wellness program. Some of the major uses for incentives in wellness programs are listed below. To promote learning To encourage participation in programs To encourage improvement in fitness test scores To encourage improvement in other test scores To encourage changes in health service use behavior To encourage compliance with professional health advice To encourage initiation and maintenance of specific health behaviors To encourage accomplishment of personal health enhancement objectives.