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Tools & Incentives

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Regulatory Tools And Incentives For Dealing With Health-Related Risk

The ways in which people perceive risk, and implement policies based on those perceptions, are driving important debates in health policy that will affect medical practice, technology innovation, and economic development. In this issue of Health Affairs, we glimpse the role that public perception plays in policy development.

Two events have achieved almost iconic status in this regard. Reports in the medical literature linking newer antidepressants to suicide led to suggestions that these agents, known collectively as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), be prescribed less frequently and monitored more closely. Right on the heels of the SSRI brouhaha, the decision . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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