Behavioral Economics and Public Health

by Ichiro Kawachi

Behavioral economics has potential to offer novel solutions to some of today's most pressing public health problems: How do we persuade people to eat healthy and lose weight? How can health professionals communicate health risks in a way that is heeded? How can food labeling be modified to inform healthy food choices?

Behavioral Economics and Public Health is the first book to apply the groundbreaking insights of behavioral economics to the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019939833X
• ISBN13: 9780199398331
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"