Financial incentives to encourage healthy behaviour: an analysis of UK media coverage.
Background Policies to use financial incentives to encourage healthy behaviour are controversial. Much of this controversy is played out in the mass media, both reflecting and shaping public opinion. Objective To describe UK mass media coverage of incentive schemes, comparing schemes targeted at dif...
| Publicado en: | Health Expectations Vol. 16; no. 3; pp. 292 - 305 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep2013
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