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Horgen, Katherine Battle.

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Promoting healthy food choices: A health message and economic incentive intervention.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Promoting healthy food choices: A health message and economic incentive intervention./
Author:	Horgen, Katherine Battle.
Description:	56 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-03, Section: B, page: 1560.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-03B.
Subject:	Psychology, Behavioral. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3007357
ISBN:	049316717X

Promoting healthy food choices: A health message and economic incentive intervention.
Horgen, Katherine Battle.

Promoting healthy food choices: A health message and economic incentive intervention. - 56 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-03, Section: B, page: 1560.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2001.

Obesity negatively impacts both physical and mental health, and it generates a substantial health care burden. Most efforts to decrease obesity have targeted the individual. This study examines the feasibility and effectiveness of an environmental intervention for obesity. The study compares the impact of health messages and pricing interventions on food choices in a restaurant.

ISBN: 049316717XSubjects--Topical Terms:

1017677
Psychology, Behavioral.

Promoting healthy food choices: A health message and economic incentive intervention.
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520 $a Obesity negatively impacts both physical and mental health, and it generates a substantial health care burden. Most efforts to decrease obesity have targeted the individual. This study examines the feasibility and effectiveness of an environmental intervention for obesity. The study compares the impact of health messages and pricing interventions on food choices in a restaurant.
520 $a For two of four target foods studied (a sandwich and entree salad), price decreases alone yielded stronger sales of target items than did a combination price decrease and health message intervention. For sales of a soup cup and soup bowl, however, the combination approach was superior. The results raise the possibility that the use of health messages, a common public health approach with respect to health interventions, may not have the intended effect on all food choice behavior. For some types of food, health messages may even compromise the impact of price decreases.
520 $a The results of this study have implications for health policy related to food choice. Health policies for smoking and alcohol use have successfully employed health messages and structural interventions including price changes, penalties, and sales and advertising restrictions. Policies designed to improve diet must include new considerations as they draw from the successes in other areas. Unlike the choice to use nicotine and alcohol, individuals cannot choose not to eat. Therefore, policy makers can focus both on encouraging healthier eating and on discouraging unhealthy eating.
520 $a Food choice decisions also involve a complex set of factors including taste, such that messages directed at health have a complicated interaction with other factors. Attempts to intervene at a public health level should account for the unique variables related to food choice.
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