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[Incentivising personal responsibility: conceptual clarification and evidence]
1Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021, USA. schmidth@mail.med.upenn.edu
Summary
Promoting personal responsibility in healthcare through incentives shows mixed results. More comprehensive data is needed to evaluate program effectiveness beyond cost savings, focusing on health and socioeconomic changes.
Area of Science:
- Health Policy
- Behavioral Economics
Context:
- Analysis of personal responsibility in health promotion.
- Examination of policy options for health and responsibility.
Purpose:
- To distinguish meanings of personal responsibility.
- To present policy options for promoting health and responsibility.
- To outline research insights on health information and incentives.
Summary:
- Discusses potential of health information and incentives to improve health and reduce costs.
- Presents data on socioeconomic characteristics of incentive program users.
- Concludes that data on incentive program effectiveness is unsatisfactory.
Impact:
- Highlights need for revised evaluation requirements in German Social Security Code (SGB V).
- Recommends evaluations consider health status and socioeconomic status changes alongside costs.
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