Carrots and sticks to promote healthy behaviors: a policy update.

Sticking with Carrots and Sticks (Sticking Points Aside): A Response to Ventakapuram, Goldberg, and Forrow

Denial of Treatment to Obese Patients—the Wrong Policy on Personal Responsibility for Health

In many countries around the world, including Iran, obesity is reaching epidemic proportions. Doctors have recently taken, or expressed support for, an extreme ‘personal responsibility for health’ policy against obesity: refusing services to obese patients. This policy may initially seem to improve patients’ incentives to fight obesity. But turning access to medical services into a benefit depe...

Corporate Wellness Programs: Implementation Challenges in the Modern American Workplace

Being healthy is important for living well and achieving longevity. In the business realm, furthermore, employers want healthy employees, as these workers tend to be more productive, have fewer rates of absenteeism, and use less of their health insurance resources. This article provides an overview of corporate “wellness” efforts in the American workplace and the concomitant challenges which em...

The Epistemic Contract: Fostering an Appropriate Level of Public Trust in Experts.

COURSES 2016-17 • Carrots, Sticks, Norms, and Nudges: Changing Minds and Behaviors: LAW 7501 (Spr) • Policy Practicum: California Prop. 64 and Marijuana Policy: LAW 805T (Win) 2015-16 • Law and Psychology: LAW 534 (Win) • Research Design for Empirical Legal Studies: LAW 712 (Aut) 2014-15 • Law and Psychology: LAW 534 (Win) • Policy Practicum: Analyzing Alternative Laws and Policies for Psychoac...

Denial of Treatment to Obese Patients-the Wrong Policy on Personal Responsibility for Health.

In many countries around the world, including Iran, obesity is reaching epidemic proportions. Doctors have recently taken, or expressed support for, an extreme 'personal responsibility for health' policy against obesity: refusing services to obese patients. This policy may initially seem to improve patients' incentives to fight obesity. But turning access to medical services into a benefit depe...