标题：There Are Many Purposes for Conditional Incentives to Accessing Healthcare; Comment on “Denial of Treatment to Obese Patients—the Wrong Policy on Personal Responsibility for Health”
期刊名称：International Journal of Health Policy and Management
电子版ISSN：2322-5939
出版年度：2013
卷号：1
期号：3
页码：235-236
DOI：10.15171/ijhpm.2013.46
语种：English
出版社：Kerman University of Medical Sciences
其他摘要：This commentary is a brief response to Nir Eyal’s argument that health policies should not make healthy behaviour a condition or prerequisite in order to access healthcare as it could result in the people who need healthcare the most not being able to access healthcare. While in general agreement due to the shared concern for equity, I argue that making health behaviour a condition to accessing healthcare can serve to develop commitment to lifestyle changes, make the health intervention more successful, help appreciate the value of the resources being spent, and help reflect on the possible risks of the intervention. I also argue that exporting or importing the carrot and stick policies to other countries without a solid understanding of the fiscal and political context of the rise of such policies in the US can lead to perverse consequences.
其他关键词：Personal Responsibility for Health ; Obesity ; Carrots and Sticks ; Chronic Diseases ; Public Health Ethics
