Understanding Organ Donation (eBook, PDF)

Applied Behavioral Science Perspectives
Redaktion: Siegel, Jason T.; Alvaro, Eusebio M.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This highly important book introduces the realm of organ donation, providing an overview of the current situation, highlighting the challenges, summarizing past research, and providing guidance for future research. * The first book to bridge the gap between applied research and the social and behavioral issues surrounding organ donation * An impressive collection of contributors from a range of both practitioners and scientists actively working in the field * Provides a concrete example of how evidence-based research and theory can be applied with real-world value * Explores future directions of organ donation and research including community-based health interventions, ethical considerations, and advancing donor registration * The latest publication in the prestigious Claremont Applied Social Psychology Series

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444317466
• Artikelnr.: 38308730

Autorenporträt

Jason T. Siegel is part of the Research Faculty at Claremont Graduate University's School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences. Dr. Siegel, Co-director of the Institute of Health Psychology and Prevention Science, has been researching organ-donation-related behavior for nearly a decade. Eusebio M. Alvaro is a Research Faculty member at Claremont Graduate University's School of Behavioral and Organizational Science where he is Co-Director of the Institute of Health Psychology and Prevention Science. He is a behavioral scientist conducting research on overcoming resistance to health behavior change.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.

INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW.

ORGAN DONATION INTERVENTIONS.

Part I: Media and Community Interventions.

Part II: Organizational Interventions.

Part III: Broad Perspectives and Future Directions.

Rezensionen

"This work represents thousands of hours of effort in theunderstanding of individual decision-making and the promotion ofpositive outcomes in organ donation. The variety of approaches usedwith different populations in different settings that have beenfound to be more or less effective based on sound field-basedresearch and evaluation is the hallmark of this work. Practitionerscan get great insight into promoting better health behaviors andthe greatest human to human gift of all and researchers can getgreat insight into the complexities of conducting research andevaluation in the messy real world."
--J. Jackson Barnette, Colorado School of PublicHealth, University of Colorado Denver

"Over a relatively short period of time, a relatively smallgroup of dedicated professionals have sought to accomplish a greatpurpose...to eliminate deaths on the transplant waiting list. Thisbook chronicles the breadth and depth of their research intochanging human behaviors which in many cases have never beenstudied, or even fully described, before. As such, it is awonderful contribution to an ever-growing field still pursuing theultimate goal of eliminating deaths on the waiting list."
--Jeffrey P. Orlowski, Chief Executive Officer, Centerfor Donation and Transplant, Albany, NY, USA

"Siegel and Alvaro have gathered the experience and perspectivesof some of the field's most respected professionals andscholars. For anyone seeking to apply recent developments andcontribute research in their own right, Understanding OrganDonation goes a long way toward delivering on the promise ofits title."
--Bryan Stewart, President, Donate Life California

"With hundreds of thousands of lives on the line, we don'thave the luxury of guesswork. This book shows us how to applyevidence-based theory with lifesaving outcomes."
--G. David Fleming, President and CEO, Donate LifeAmerica

"Understanding Organ Donation is a groundbreaking volumeon the topic of vital importance to the public and scientificcommunity. The book is informative in its overview of the currentapproaches, it is insightful in its detection of the challenges,and it is extremely useful in providing guidance to researchers andactivists for meeting those challenges."
--Radmila Prislin, San Diego State University