Behavioral health economics and the development of behavioral interventions

Behavioral economic research has been touted as having the potential to lead to new approaches to interventions and policies aimed at influencing health-related behaviors such as exercise, weight loss, and medication adherence. The short course presents an overview of developments in behavioral health economics as it applies to developing interventions aimed at changing lifestyle and other health behaviors. The goal is to identify new insights that behavioral economics can provide to behavioral medicine researchers and economists.