tailieunhanh - Understanding Organ Donation

Being researchers fortunate enough to be funded as part of the Social and Behavioral Science grant program of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), we attend several yearly meetings where fellow grantees presented their findings. Year after year we listen to our colleagues’ presentations of intervention calamity and recovery. Reports of campaigns leading to increases in hospital consent rates and workplace interventions increasing the number of registered workers are commonplace. Gains in knowledge about organ donor registration behavior are rivaled only by the lessons learned as researchers and practitioners teamed up to apply social science and behavioral theories to a domain with great need. One. | y Ị V _ CLAREMONT APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY SERIES Understanding Organ Donation Applied Behavioral Science Perspectives Edited by Jason T. Siegel and Eusebio M. Alvaro WILEY-BLACKWELL Praise for Understanding Organ Donation This work represents thousands of hours of effort in the understanding of individual decision-making and the promotion of positive outcomes in organ donation. The variety of approaches used with different populations in different settings that have been found to be more or less effective based on sound fieldbased research and evaluation is the hallmark of this work. Practitioners can get great insight into promoting better health behaviors and the greatest human to human gift of all and researchers can get great insight into the complexities of conducting research and evaluation in the messy real world. J. Jackson Barnette Colorado School of Public Health University of Colorado Denver Over a relatively short period of time a relatively small group of dedicated professionals have sought to accomplish a great purpose . to eliminate deaths on the transplant waiting list. This book chronicles the breadth and depth of their research into changing human behaviors which in many cases have never been studied or even fully described before. As such it is a wonderful contribution to an ever-growing field still pursuing the ultimate goal of eliminating deaths on the waiting list. Jeffrey P. Orlowski Chief Executive Officer Center for Donation and Transplant Albany NY Siegel and Alvaro have gathered the experience and perspectives of some of the field s most respected professionals and scholars. For anyone seeking to apply recent developments and contribute research in their own right Understanding Organ Donation goes a long way toward delivering on the promise of its title. Bryan Stewart President Donate Life California With hundreds of thousands of lives on the line we don t have the luxury of guesswork. This book shows us how to apply evidence-based .