Handbook of Health Decision Science

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.

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.