書目名稱 | The Mental Mechanisms of Patient Adherence to Long-Term Therapies | 副標題 | Mind and Care | 編輯 | Gérard Reach | 視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/914/913956/913956.mp4 | 概述 | Discusses the philosophical issues surrounding the notion of adherence to medical prescriptions and to healthy life, asking the question: why does one take care of one-self?.Addresses the role of cogn | 圖書封面 |  | 描述 | .How can we accept that we ought to stop smoking, follow a diet, exercise, or take medications? The goal of this book is to describe the mechanisms of patients’ adherence to long-term therapies, whose improvement, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), would be more beneficial than any biomedical progress. For example, approximately half of the patients do not regularly follow medical prescriptions, resulting in deleterious effects on people’s health and a strong impact on health expenditure. This book describes how our beliefs, desires, and emotions intervene in our choices concerning our health, by referring to concepts developed within the framework of the philosophy of mind. In particular, it tries to explain how we can choose between an immediate pleasure and a remote reward—preserving our health and our life. We postulate that such an “intertemporal” choice can be directed by a “principle of foresight” which leads us to give priority to the future. Just like patients’ non-adherence to prescribed medications, doctors often don’t always do what they should: They are non-adherent to good practice guidelines. We propose that what was recently de-scribed as “clinical in | 出版日期 | Book 2015 | 關(guān)鍵詞 | Adherence and non-adherence to therapies; Psychology and philosophy; doctor-patient relationships; mora | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12265-6 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-38541-9 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-12265-6 | copyright | Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 |
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