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Health Incentive Structures

Meaning

Health Incentive Structures are systematically designed programs or policies, often implemented in corporate or public health settings, that utilize rewards or penalties to encourage individuals to adopt and maintain beneficial health behaviors. These structures aim to leverage principles from behavioral economics to bridge the gap between knowing what is healthy and consistently acting on that knowledge. Their design must ethically navigate complex issues of fairness, data privacy, and the potential for coercion to ensure genuine, sustained behavioral change and not just short-term compliance.