Book contents
- Numerical Reasoning in Judgments and Decision Making about Health
- Numerical Reasoning in Judgments and Decision Making about Health
- 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
10 - A review of theories of numeracy: psychological mechanisms and implications for medical decision making
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2014
Book contents
- Numerical Reasoning in Judgments and Decision Making about Health
- Numerical Reasoning in Judgments and Decision Making about Health
- 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
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014
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