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Health workforce incentives and dis-incentives during the COVID-19 pandemic: experiences from Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Senegal, and Uganda
BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic presented a myriad of challenges for the health workforce around the world due to its escalating demand on service...
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Children, vaccines, and financial incentives
Recent studies have been analyzing and measuring the efficacy of the use of financial incentives to increase the Covid-19 vaccine uptake. To the best...
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A 5-Year Review of the Impact of Lottery Incentives on HIV-Related Services
Purpose of reviewLottery incentives are an innovative approach to encouraging HIV prevention, treatment initiation, and adherence behaviours. This...
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Simple economics of vaccination: public policies and incentives
This paper focuses on the economics of vaccination and, more specifically, analyzes the vaccination decision of individuals using a game-theoretic...
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Combining anchoring with financial incentives to increase physical activity: a randomized controlled trial among college students
The purpose of this study was to: (1) compare the relative efficacy of different combinations of three behavioral intervention strategies (i.e.,...
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Long-Term Effects of Incentives for HIV Viral Suppression: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Achieving viral suppression in people living with HIV improves their quality of life and can help end the HIV/AIDS epidemic. However, few...
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How and why do financial incentives contribute to hel** people stop smoking? A realist review
BackgroundTobacco smoking remains a key cause of preventable illness and death globally. In response, many countries provide extensive services to...
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Goals for Adherence with Low-cost Incentives (GOALS): a protocol for a randomized controlled trial evaluating the impact of small airtime incentives on ART adherence among young people living with HIV in Kampala, Uganda
BackgroundTreatment outcomes of HIV-positive individuals are threatened by low antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence, a problem that is particularly...
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The effect of internal salary incentives based on insurance payment on physicians’ behavior: experimental evidence
BackgroundUnderstanding how physicians respond to payment methods is crucial for designing effective incentives and enhancing the insurance system....
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Current Programs and Incentives to Overcome Rural Physician Shortages in the United States: A Narrative Review
Access to healthcare continues to be a top priority and prominent challenge in rural communities, with 20% of the total U.S. population living in...
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Financial incentives to motivate treatment for hepatitis C with direct acting antivirals among Australian adults (The Methodical evaluation and Optimisation of Targeted IncentiVes for Accessing Treatment of Early-stage hepatitis C: MOTIVATE-C): protocol for a dose-response randomised controlled study
BackgroundUntreated hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection can result in cirrhosis and hepatocellular cancer. Direct-acting antiviral (DAA) therapies are...
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Identifying and Minimizing Incentives for Competing Interests in Sports Medicine Publications
Academics in sports medicine as well as other medical fields are generally expected to publish research and opinions in peer-reviewed journals. The...
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High-risk pooling for mitigating risk selection incentives in health insurance markets with sophisticated risk equalization: an application based on health survey information
BackgroundDespite sophisticated risk equalization, insurers in regulated health insurance markets still face incentives to attract healthy people and...
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Heteroscedasticity of residual spending after risk equalization: a potential source of selection incentives in health insurance markets with premium regulation
Many community-rated health insurance markets include risk equalization (also known as risk adjustment) to mitigate risk selection incentives for...
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Cost-effectiveness of goal-directed and outcome-based financial incentives for weight loss in low-income populations: the FIReWoRk randomized clinical trial
BackgroundThe Financial Incentives for Weight Reduction (FIReWoRk) clinical trial showed that financial incentive weight-loss strategies designed...
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Comparison of Two Financial Incentives to Encourage the Use of Adalimumab Biosimilars: Results of a French Experiment Close to Clinicians
BackgroundIn 2018, the French government introduced two mutually exclusive financial incentives to increase etanercept and insulin glargine...
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Increasing Access to Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder in Primary Care: an Assessment of Provider Incentives
BackgroundPrimary care providers (PCPs) are essential to increasing access to office-based buprenorphine medication treatment for opioid use disorder...
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Designing financial incentives for health behaviour change: a mixed-methods case study of weight loss in men with obesity
AimDesigning financial incentives for health behaviour change requires choices across several domains, including value (the size of the incentive),...
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FEEDBACK trial - A randomised control trial to investigate the effect of personalised feedback and financial incentives on reducing the incidence of road crashes
BackgroundRoad crashes continue to pose a significant threat to global health. Young drivers aged between 18 and 25 are over-represented in road...
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The effect of loss incentives on prospective memory in healthy older adults: study protocol of a randomized controlled trial using ultra-high field fMRI
BackgroundProspective memory is important for our health and independence but declines with age. Hence, interventions to enhance prospective memory,...
