Welcome to The Healthy Nudge. Each month, we'll get you up to speed on the latest developments in policy-relevant health behavioral economics research at CHIBE.
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“While an intense anxiety about robust price increases—something the US hasn’t seen in almost four decades—is a big part of kitchen table conversations across the country right now, it’s not just inflation that’s unsettling people. A jarring string of events is raising fears that the underpinnings of modern American life are crumbling. 'At this point, people have been primed with stimuli practically to the breaking point,' says George Loewenstein. 'When people are in a state of fear, they become more afraid of everything. So people are right to be afraid about the economy, but their fears are amplified by all the other background risks they are, and have been, exposed to.'” Read more here.
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“I think to truly make gains on equity, we can't make it an afterthought of how we design policy," Dr. Navathe said. "In other words, what I think the typical approach has been, is to design a model, change a policy, and then to evaluate and monitor and say, ‘Well, how is this model affecting populations that are more underserved? What's happening to inequities and gaps and disparities?’ And if we do that, we're always going to be chasing our tail and unlikely to really proactively make progress against these social challenges that we have.” Listen here.
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"Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) are a key contributor to a decades-long surge in diet-related chronic disease and demand policy action. Evidence from this review makes it clear that SSB taxes are an effective tool to reduce SSB purchases and, therefore, have the potential to improve diet and health. However, chronic diseases are complex problems driven by multiple factors. It is difficult, though not impossible, for any one policy to substantially move the needle on population-level health outcomes, but improving dietary choices is a worthy goal in and of itself. Jurisdictions that consider implementing these taxes should continue to design them in consultation with lower-income and marginalized communities." Read the invited commentary here.
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"Among patients discharged after a hospitalization for heart failure, does remote monitoring and rewarding their weight and diuretic adherence reduce subsequent chances of death or rehospitalization? In this randomized clinical trial of 552 adults followed up for 12 months, hospital readmissions or death were not significantly different whether patients received remote monitoring and financial incentives or usual care." Read the paper here.
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Robin Yabroff, PhD, MBA
Epidemiologist and Scientific Vice President, Health Services Research at the American Cancer Society
“Medical Financial Hardship Among Cancer Survivors in the US”
June 23, 2022, from 12 - 1 PM EST
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