Overview
Provides a comprehensive examination of health care decision making from theoretical and applied perspectives
Encompasses decision making from the individual to the societal level, including important health-related decisions outside the clinical setting
Offers a unique translational approach to health decision making, taking theory to practice
Applies a multilevel framework to decision making in the health care setting
Incorporates a transdisciplinary approach to the study and practice of decision making, including social, behavioral, medical, economic, policy, and practice perspectives
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Basics First
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Decision Making on the Individual Level
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Decision Making on the Interpersonal Level
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Applied Decision Making
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About this book
This comprehensive reference delves into the complex process of medical decision making—both the nuts-and-bolts access and insurance issues that guide choices and the cognitive and affective factors that can make patients decide against their best interests. Wide-ranging coverage offers a robust evidence base for understanding decision making across the lifespan, among family members, in the context of evolving healthcare systems, and in the face of life-changing diagnosis. The section on applied decision making reviews the effectiveness of decision-making tools in healthcare, featuring real-world examples and guidelines for tailored communications with patients. Throughout, contributors spotlight the practical importance of the field and the pressing need to strengthen health decision-making skills on both sides of the clinician/client dyad.
Among the Handbook’s topics:
- From laboratory to clinic and back: connecting neuroeconomic and clinical mea
Overcoming the many pitfalls of communicating risk.
- Evidence-based medicine and decision-making policy.
- The internet, social media, and health decision making.
The Handbook of Health Decision Science will interest a wide span of professionals, among them health and clinical psychologists, behavioral researchers, health policymakers, and sociologists.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Michael A. Diefenbach, Ph.D., is a professor of Medicine, Urology and Psychiatry at Northwell Health and the Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine at Hofstra University. He is a social/health psychologist and the director of the behavioral research program at the Departments of Medicine and Urology at Northwell Health.
t-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Suzanne M. Miller, Ph.D. is a Senior Member at Fox Chase Cancer Center, where she is Director of the Behavioral Medicine Program, the Behavioral Research Core Facility, and the Behavioral Center of Excellence in Breast Cancer. As a clinical/health psychologist, Dr. Miller has been interested in the interface of psychology and medicine, extending basic constructs in cognitive and social science to the domain of behavioral oncology. Her funded research – through the National Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society, and the Department of Defense -- centers on the cognitive-affective processing of threatening health
information and the implications for the design and assessment of interventions to facilitate decision making, adjustment, and adherence, with a special focus on genetic conditions, special populations, and individual family development. Deborah J. Bowen, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at Boston University School of Public Health. She is also an adjunct full member at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and was the head of the Social/Behavioral Sciences Affinity Group, within the Cancer Prevention Research Program. Her research interests include both community and individual interventions to prevent cancer and cancer mortality.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Health Decision Science
Editors: Michael A. Diefenbach, Suzanne Miller-Halegoua, Deborah J. Bowen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3486-7
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media LLC 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-3484-3Published: 27 September 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-7439-9Published: 19 August 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-3486-7Published: 26 September 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 377
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations
Topics: Health Psychology, Public Health, Personality and Social Psychology, Nursing