Reframing Health Behavior Change With Behavioral Economics

by Bickel, Warren K.; Vuchinich, Rudy E.; Vuchinich, Rudy E.; Epstein, Leonard

• ISBN13: 9780805827330
• ISBN10: 0805827331
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

Behavioral economics is a rapidly developing area of psychological science that has synergistically merged microeconomic concepts with behavioral research methods. A driving force behind the growth of behavioral economics has been its recent application to behaviors that significantly affect health. The book examines the latest behavioral economic research on smoking, drug and alcohol abuse, obesity, gambling, and other poor health habits, and explores the implications for individual and community interventions and policy directions. This innovative book describes new concepts and methods developed in behavioral economics and applies them to understanding health behavior change. The richness of behavioral economic concepts provides novel methods and measures that lend to an understanding of health behavior that is different from previous work in the field. Featuring contributions from experimental and clinical psychologists and economists, this book will be of interest to a broad range of students and professionals concerned with health behavior, including researchers, clinicians, and policymakers, as well as psychologists, educators, and all those who work with people who are currently attempting to make positive health and lifestyle changes.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
G. Alan Marlatt
Preface	xxi
Rudy E. Vuchinich
Warren K. Bickel
Part 1: Behavioral Economic Concepts and Methods
A Behavioral Economics Primer	3	(24)
Gregory J. Madden
Behavioral Economic Concepts and Methods for Studying Health Behavior	27	(36)
Steven R. Hursh
Part 2: Price and Consumption
A Behavioral Economic Analysis of the Reinforcing Effects of Drugs: Transition States of Addiction	63	(26)
Marilyn E. Carroll
Una C. Campbell
Economics and Antihealth Behavior: The Economic Analysis of Substance Use and Abuse	89	(26)
Frank J. Chaloupka
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
Part 3: Substitutability Relations Between Activities
Economic Substitutability: Some Implications for Health Behavior	115	(30)
Leonard Green
Edwin B. Fisher, Jr.
The Lonely Addict	145	(22)
Howard Rachlin
Part 4: Health Behavior as Intertemporal Choice
Self-Control and Health Behavior	167	(26)
A. W. Logue
Temporal Changes in the Value of Objects of Choice: Discounting, Behavior Patterns, and Health behavior	193	(26)
Cathy A. Simpson
Rudy E. Vuchinich
Part 5: Specific Health Behaviors: Help Seeking, Smoking, Eating, Exercise, and Gambling
Waiting to See the Doctor: The Role of Time Constraints in the Utilization of Health and Behavioral Health Services	219	(46)
Jalie A. Tucker
John W. Davison
Behavioral Economics of Tobacco Smoking	265	(28)
Kenneth A. Perkins
Mary E. Hickcox
James E. Grobe
Behavioral Economics of Obesity: Food Intake and Energy Expenditure	293	(20)
Leonard H. Epstein
Brian E. Saelens
Gambling in Socioeconomic Perspective	313	(28)
Patrick M. Ghezzi
Charles A. Lyons
Mark R. Dixon
Part 6: The Cultural Context of Health Behavior
The Tyranny of Small Decisions: Origins, Outcomes, and Proposed Solutions	341	(52)
Warren K. Bickel
Lisa A. Marsch
Author Index	393	(18)
Subject Index	411