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Collaborations that integrate diverse perspectives are critical to addressing many of our complex scientific and societal problems. Yet those engaged in cross-disciplinary team science often face institutional barriers and collaborative challenges. Strategies for Team Science Success offers readers a comprehensive set of actionable strategies for reducing barriers and overcoming challenges and includes practical guidance for how to implement effective team science practices. More than 100 experts--including scientists, administrators, and funders from a wide range of disciplines and professions-- explain evidence-based principles, highlight state-of the-art strategies, tools, and resources, and share first-person accounts of how they've applied them in their own successful team science initiatives. While many examples draw from cross-disciplinary team science initiatives in the health domain, the handbook is designed to be useful across all areas of science. Strategies for Team Science Success will inspire and enable readers to embrace cross-disciplinary team science, by articulating its value for accelerating scientific progress, and by providing practical strategies for success. Scientists, administrators, funders, and others engaged in team science will also leave equipped to develop new policies and practices needed to keep pace in our rapidly changing scientific landscape. Scholars across the Science of Team Science (SciTS), management, organizational, behavioral and social sciences, public health, philosophy, and information technology, among other areas of scholarship, will find inspiration for new research directions to continue advancing cross-disciplinary team science.
How do individuals conceive illness and symptoms? Do their conceptions conflict with the physician's views of their illness, and what happens if they do? This book thoroughly explores the field of disease representation, describes and discusses lay illness models in a variety of social, histo- rical and cultural contexts.
As screening programs for HIV, high cholesterol, high blood
pressure, genetic abnormalities and other risk factors continue to
proliferate, difficult questions are continually raised concerning
the psychological and behavioral effects on the participants.
Although members of the public health community have debated the
costs and benefits of screening programs for over three decades,
these questions have become especially pertinent with the current
emphasis on early disease detection and prevention. While advocates
argue that risk notification provides the impetus for individuals
to improve their health habits and seek early treatment, skeptics
contend that risk screening can have an adverse labeling effect,
leading to increased anxiety, work absenteeism, and fatalism.
The demand for health information continues to increase, but the
ability of health professionals to provide it clearly remains
variable. The aim of this book is (1) to summarize and synthesize
research on the selection and presentation of data pertinent to
public health, and (2) to provide practical suggestions, based on
this research summary and synthesis, on how scientists and other
public health practitioners can better communicate data to the
public, policy makers, and the press in typical real-world
situations. Because communication is complex and no one approach
works for all audiences, the authors emphasize how to communicate
data "better" (and in some instances, contrast this with how to
communicate data "worse"), rather than attempting a cookbook
approach. The book contains a wealth of case studies and other
examples to illustrate major points, and actual situations whenever
possible. Key principles and recommendations are summarized at the
end of each chapter.
Handbook of Cancer Control and Behavioral Science is an expert synthesis of what is known, what is suspected, and what is still unknown about core behavioral and sociocultural aspects of cancer control. Editors Suzanne Miller, Deborah Bowen, Robert Croyle, and Julia Rowland present a thought-provoking overview of the key areas of research, from primary prevention, to early cancer detection, to the clinical treatment of cancer, to survivor experience and bereavement, to future directions for research.Senior researchers provide jargon-free descriptions of current approaches while identifying the most effective behavioral interventions in use for preventing and treating cancer. Yet, the focus is not limited to cancer patients; the relationship between doctor and patient, and the effects of cancer on families are also examined. In its broad scope and detailed examination of the entire continuum of cancer incidence, the Handbook is an essential, cross-disciplinary resource that will be of great use for researchers, health care providers, and mental health professionals in the fight against cancer.
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