Challenge to reduce health disparities with motivational incentives

Abstract

This special report is based on the symposium presentation at the last Japanese Health Education Conference in 2023 regarding behavior change with motivational incentives. This report starts with a general outline of behavior change with motivational incentives that have gradually been utilized in healthcare settings, leading to the description of tips to implement motivational incentives in terms of the definition of behavior and also the incentive content. Furthermore, the limitations of using motivational incentives and research examples are described. It will be a delight to find the approach of using motivational incentives for behavior change implemented in real-world healthcare settings.