Understanding organ donation: applied behavioral science perspectives

The worldwide need for transplantable organs continues to increase. Over 100,000 people are on the waiting list in America alone. This ground-breaking bookintroduces the realm of organ donation and provides wide-ranging examples of successful theory-based interventions across real-world situations. With contributions from scholars and professionals actively working in this field, and reporting on the very latest developments, this volume provides a concrete example of how evidence-based, translational research functions in a real-world nascent field, with life or death outcomes. Understanding Organ Donation is an invaluable resource for organ donor professionals, applied social psychologists, health psychologists, policy-makers, as well as professors and students in health communication who are interested in theory-based research in real-world contexts.

• ISBN: 978-1-4051-9213-2
• Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 392
• Fecha Publicación: 04/12/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés