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Why it's so hard to make healthy decisions

David Asch · TED

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About

Why do we make poor decisions that we know are bad for our health? In this frank, funny talk, behavioral economist and health policy expert David Asch explains why our behavior is often irrational -- in highly predictable ways -- and shows how we can harness this irrationality to make better decisions and improve our health care system overall.

The talk

  1. Why it's so hard to make healthy decisions 17 min · TED's player

Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDMED 2018
Speaker
David Asch
Year
2018
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Medicine and health, Economics, Psychology and the brain
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
TED Talks are licensed by TED under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International and are shown here in TED's own player, as TED's usage policy asks.
Who can watch
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