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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 sures of decision-making dysfunctions.
Strategies to promote the maintenance of behavior change: moving from theoretical principles to practices.
Shared decision making and the patient-provider relationship.
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.

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Introduction.- Part I. Basics first.- 1. What are utilities, preferences and values?.- 2. Heuristics and decision making.- 3. Modeling and mathematical models of decision making.- Part II. Decision making on the individual level.- 4. Basic science articles from the judgment and decision literature.- 5. Basic science article from the health psychological/self-regulation perspective.- 6.Decision making for single events.- 7.Maintaining decision making for multiple events.- 8.Decision making in aging populations: time horizons and familial influences.- 9.Decision making in young adults.- 10. Decision making in disadvantaged populations. Part III. Decision making on the interpersonal level.- 11. Basic science article of spouses/partners and family members.- 12. Decisional influences of health care providers.- Part IV. Decision making by health care providers.- 13. Models of shared decision making.- 14. End-of-life decision making.- 15.&nbs
p; Legal aspects of decision making for health care providers.- Part V. Applied decision making.- 16. Decision tools in shared decision making for patients.- 17. Decision tools for health care professionals.- 18. Integration of decision tools in the health care environment: The example of Kaiser Permanente.- 19. The VA as an example of an integration decision tools for patients and physicians.- Part VI. The communication of decisions.- 20. Graphical and numerical communication.- 21. Health literacy and numeracy.- Part VII. Decision making on the organizational level.- 22. Decision making using Electronic Medical records.- 23. Decision making on the practice level.- Part VIII. Decision making on the state and national health policy environment.- 24. How health policy gets made.- 25. Recent changes in the health care environment.- Part IX. The future of decision making.- 26. The promise of New Media: savior or curse?- 27. Social networks and the power of many.- 28. Decision making in the age of genome wide sequencing.

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