Your Life Depends on It: What You Can Do to Make Better Choices About Your Health

Author:   Talya Miron-Shatz
Publisher:   Basic Books
ISBN:  

9781541646759


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   21 October 2021
Format:   Hardback
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.

Our Price $45.00 Quantity:  
Add to Cart

Share |

Your Life Depends on It: What You Can Do to Make Better Choices About Your Health


Add your own review!

Overview

Full Product Details

Author:   Talya Miron-Shatz
Publisher:   Basic Books
Imprint:   Basic Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.80cm
Weight:   0.460kg
ISBN:  

9781541646759


ISBN 10:   1541646754
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   21 October 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.

Table of Contents

Reviews

The past year has shown that confusion exists prominently in our medical conversations. We need a new guide to navigating these complex decisions, and psychology professor Miron-Shatz is here to provide one. --Next Big Idea Club


"In Your Life Depends on It, Talya Miron-Shatz combines her unique perspectives on health, choice architecture and behavioral economics to present a work that is not only easy and exciting to read, but full of insights. She includes tips for each of us as health consumers and decision makers as well as for leaders and policy makers. The goal of behavior change in health is a holy grail and this book is a must-read for anyone dedicated to the task of helping us get there.--Joseph Kvedar, MD, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital One lesson that covid-19 has taught us is the importance of communicating accurate and clear health information to the public. Messages from healthcare officials and policy makers were devoured daily and used by the public to make key decisions about how to behave and what actions to take. It is therefore a shame that Your Life Depends on It was not published 20 months earlier. It is precisely the kind of book that everyone--whether they are laypeople, policy makers, or healthcare professionals--would have benefited from reading. Importantly, the book offers clear and simple guidance and solutions that can be implemented by the three relevant actors: patients, healthcare providers, and the healthcare systems. --Yaniv Hanoch, The British Medical Journal People who expect to stay healthy forever need not read this wonderful book. The rest of us should. With a fine combination of humor, compassion, and vast knowledge, Talya Miron-Shatz offers clear and useful guidance for the hardest decisions of life.--Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize-winning author of, Thinking, Fast and Slow This is a fine and very timely book on how to improve the conversation between patients and health professionals, based on the powerful idea of shared decision-making. Full of both great stories and psychological insights, it shows how to put into practice the fundamental principle of 'nothing about us, without us.'--David Spiegelhalter, University of Cambridge and author of, The Art of Statistics When Talya Miron-Shatz says, 'Your life depends on it, ' she isn't kidding! The stakes for medical decision-making are so high, and the circumstances so fraught, that it's no wonder that most people feel overwhelmed. In this fascinating and engaging book, you'll learn practical strategies for navigating even the most challenging of decisions. Your Life Depends on It is not just an invaluable guide for patients; it's also a manifesto for the healthcare system.--Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, NYU School of Medicine and author of, When We Do Harm ""The past year has shown that confusion exists prominently in our medical conversations. We need a new guide to navigating these complex decisions, and psychology professor Miron-Shatz is here to provide one.""--Next Big Idea Club"


In Your Life Depends on It, Talya Miron-Shatz combines her unique perspectives on health, choice architecture and behavioral economics to present a work that is not only easy and exciting to read, but full of insights. She includes tips for each of us as health consumers and decision makers as well as for leaders and policy makers. The goal of behavior change in health is a holy grail and this book is a must-read for anyone dedicated to the task of helping us get there.--Joseph Kvedar, MD, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital One lesson that covid-19 has taught us is the importance of communicating accurate and clear health information to the public. Messages from healthcare officials and policy makers were devoured daily and used by the public to make key decisions about how to behave and what actions to take. It is therefore a shame that Your Life Depends on It was not published 20 months earlier. It is precisely the kind of book that everyone--whether they are laypeople, policy makers, or healthcare professionals--would have benefited from reading. Importantly, the book offers clear and simple guidance and solutions that can be implemented by the three relevant actors: patients, healthcare providers, and the healthcare systems. --Yaniv Hanoch, The British Medical Journal People who expect to stay healthy forever need not read this wonderful book. The rest of us should. With a fine combination of humor, compassion, and vast knowledge, Talya Miron-Shatz offers clear and useful guidance for the hardest decisions of life.--Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize-winning author of, Thinking, Fast and Slow This is a fine and very timely book on how to improve the conversation between patients and health professionals, based on the powerful idea of shared decision-making. Full of both great stories and psychological insights, it shows how to put into practice the fundamental principle of 'nothing about us, without us.'--David Spiegelhalter, University of Cambridge and author of, The Art of Statistics When Talya Miron-Shatz says, 'Your life depends on it, ' she isn't kidding! The stakes for medical decision-making are so high, and the circumstances so fraught, that it's no wonder that most people feel overwhelmed. In this fascinating and engaging book, you'll learn practical strategies for navigating even the most challenging of decisions. Your Life Depends on It is not just an invaluable guide for patients; it's also a manifesto for the healthcare system.--Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, NYU School of Medicine and author of, When We Do Harm ""The past year has shown that confusion exists prominently in our medical conversations. We need a new guide to navigating these complex decisions, and psychology professor Miron-Shatz is here to provide one.""--Next Big Idea Club


Author Information

Talya Miron-Shatz, PhD., is professor and founding Director of the Center for Medical Decision Making at Ono Academic College in Israel, senior fellow at the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest in New York, and a visiting researcher at the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication at Cambridge. An international leader in research at the intersection of medicine and behavioral economics, and a s former student of Daniel Kahneman, Miron-Shatz has also taught at Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania. She is the CEO of CureMyWay, an international health consulting firm whose clients include Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, and Samsung; and CEO of Buddy&Soul, a digital platform for patient engagement. She lives in Jerusalem.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions
Latest Reading Guide

lgn

al

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
Shopping cart
Mailing List