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Numerical Reasoning in Judgments and Decision Making about Health
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eBook - PDF
Numerical Reasoning in Judgments and Decision Making about Health
About this book
Every day thousands of individuals need to make critical decisions about their health based on numerical information, yet recent surveys have found that over half the population of the United States is unable to complete basic math problems. How does this lack of numerical ability (also referred to as low numeracy, quantitative illiteracy or statistical illiteracy) impact healthcare? What can be done to help people with low numeracy skills? Numerical Reasoning in Judgments and Decision Making about Health addresses these questions by examining and explaining the impact of quantitative illiteracy on healthcare and in specific healthcare contexts, and discussing what can be done to reduce these healthcare disparities. This book will be a useful resource for professionals in many health fields including academics, policy makers, physicians and other healthcare providers.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Measuring numeracy
- 2 Collective statistical illiteracy in health
- 3 Physicians’ understanding and use of numeric information
- 4 Patient numeracy: what do patients need to recognize, think, or do with health numbers?
- 5 Application of numeracy in diabetes mellitus chronic disease care
- 6 Numeracy and genetic screening
- 7 Using visual aids to help people with low numeracy make better decisions
- 8 Anticipating barriers to the communication of critical information
- 9 Rational healthcare
- 10 A review of theories of numeracy: psychological mechanisms and implications for medical decision making
- 11 Do the numbers help patients decide? Ethical and empirical challenges for evaluating the impact of quantitative information
- Conclusion
- Name index
- Subject index
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