Smart Help to Keep You on Track
Despite our goals and best intentions, we don’t always follow a path to good health.
We know we need to lose weight and diet, but we keep overeating. We know we need more exercise, but we don’t do it. We know we ought to quit smoking, yet we can’t seem to give it up. Our doctors remind us, yet we often fail to take our medications.
Recently, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have found ways to make it easier to stay on track to better health.
Building on the latest ideas from the field of behavioral economics and using wireless technologies and the web, the Way to Health team is creating online tools and other applications that will allow people to participate in studies that test ways of improving health behaviors.
If You Want More Information
If you would like to learn more about similar projects at the University of Pennsylvania, please visit the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics at the Leonard Davis Institute website.
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