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Behavioral Economic Factors Related to Pediatric Obesity
Angela J Jacques-Tiura1, Mark K Greenwald2
1Department of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, iBio - Behavioral Health, Wayne State University, 6135 Woodward, H206, Detroit, MI 48202, USA.
Abstract:
Behavioral economics (BE) suggests that food and activity choices are governed by costs, available alternatives, and reinforcement. This article reviews basic, translational, and intervention research using a BE framework with overweight or obese children up to age 18. We address BE concepts and methods, and discuss developmental issues, the continuum of BE intervention approaches, findings of studies focused on increasing the cost of unwanted behaviors (ie, energy-dense food intake and sedentary behavior) and decreasing the cost of desired behaviors (ie, healthy food intake and PA), and our team's recent basic behavioral studies using BE approaches with minority adolescents.
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