Risking your health
Subtitle: causes, consequences, and interventions to prevent risky behaviors
By: Damien de Walque, editor
Contributors: World Bank
Series: Human development perspectives; Human development perspectives
Publisher: The World Bank
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9780821399064; 9780821399071
Subjects: Developing Countries; Public Health; Health Behavior; Health Status Indicators; Poverty; Risk Factors; Risk-Taking; Social Problems
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Overview of prevalence and trends of risky behaviors by region in the developing world; title: Determinants of risky behavior; title: The consequences of risky behavior; title: Targeting risky behaviors using non-price interventions/legislation, information and education; title: Using economic mechanisms to reduce risky behaviors : tax policy and other incentives.