The role of incentives in the improvement of health.

Abstract

65 THERE IS NO PAUCITY OF recommendations for various interventions to help prevent disease. The United States Preventive Services Task Force, American Heart Association, and American Cancer Society are just a few of the not-for-profit organizations that study how to prevent disease (or its progression) and then make recommendations to the medical and public health community on how to intervene. These recommendations come at all levels of prevention—primary (lifestyle choices), secondary (screening for disease), and tertiary (preventing progression of disease). The recommendations from these and similar organizations promote interventions that have proved to improve health and decrease sickness and death.