Delay discounting and health risk behaviors

This article firstly presents the concept of delay discounting and the discount functions. Secondly, it summarizes the evidences for the relationship between delay discounting and health risk behaviors and describes how the discount functions explain these behaviors’ patterns. Finally, it introduces some strategies to reduce delay discounting in order to improve health behaviors and makes suggestions for school-based intervention programs targeting health risk behaviors in Vietnam.

12p capheny 29-02-2020 21 1   Download