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Background: Financial incentives are an effective way of helping women to stop smoking during pregnancy. Unfortunately, most women who stop smoking at this time return to smoking within 12 months of the infant’s birth.
S. Orton +33 more
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Financial incentives for vaccination do not have negative unintended consequences [PDF]
Financial incentives to encourage healthy and prosocial behaviours often trigger initial behavioural change(1–11), but a large academic literature warns against using them(12–16). Critics warn that financial incentives can crowd out prosocial motivations
Pope, Devin +13 more
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Public survey of financial incentives for kidney donation in Bahrain
With the increasing prevalence of end-stage kidney disease in Bahrain, kidney donation is of vital importance. In this study, we want to assess how financial incentives will influence peoples’ views and decisions regarding kidney donation.
Amgad E El-Agroudy +3 more
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Financial Impact of Incentive Spirometry [PDF]
Despite largely unproven clinical effectiveness, incentive spirometry (IS) is widely used in an effort to reduce postoperative pulmonary complications. The objective of the study is to evaluate the financial impact of implementing IS. The amount of time nurses and RTs spend each day doing IS-related activities was assessed utilizing an online survey ...
Adam E. M. Eltorai +15 more
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Rents for Pills: Financial Incentives and Physician Behavior
We study the impact of financial incentives on the prescription behavior of physicians. A recent reform in Switzerland enables physicians to dispense drugs to patients and earn a markup on each prescription. We find that the reform leads to a significant
Müller, Tobias +2 more
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Financial incentives and the health workforce [PDF]
Changes to the remuneration of medical practitioners are currently being considered in Australia. In this paper, we provide a discussion of financial incentives in healthcare markets and their effects on health professionals’ behaviour. After defining incentives, the paper focuses on the design of incentive schemes for the health workforce.
Scott, Anthony, Connelly, Luke B.
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Financial incentives and advanced construction procurement systems
Construction clients often use financial incentives to encourage stakeholder motivation and commitment to voluntary higher-order project goals. Despite the increased use of financial incentives, there is little literature addressing means of optimizing ...
Manley, Karen +3 more
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Financial Incentives for Whistleblowers: A Short Survey [PDF]
Whistleblower reward programs, or “bounty regimes”, are increasingly used in the United States. The effectiveness of these programs have been questioned, and empirical evidence on their effectiveness have been scarce likely due to their relatively recent introduction.
Spagnolo, Giancarlo, Nyreröd, Theo
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Community health workers (CHWs) are essential in the provision of a wide range of services, including family planning. In Tanzania, deployment of CHWs has largely been supported by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) who often determine their ...
Maryse Kok +6 more
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