Communicating about Risks and Safe Use of Medicines

Real Life and Applied Research

Buch | Hardcover

504 Seiten

2020 | 1st ed. 2020
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-15-3012-8 (ISBN)

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At the core of this book lies the question how to approach medicines, risks and communication as a researcher - or anybody planning and evaluating a communication intervention, or wanting to understand communication events in private and the media. With a view to tackle current shortcomings of communication systems and processes for improved implementation, patient satisfaction and health outcomes, a multilayered approach is presented. This combines multiple data types and methods to obtain a wider and deeper understanding of the major parties and their interactions, as well as the healthcare, social and political contexts of information flows, how they interfere and which impact they have. Illustrated with real life experiences of safety concerns with medicines, worldwide active experts discuss the methods and contributions their disciplines can offer. With considerations on terminologies, tabulated overviews on communication types and outcomes, a patient-centred vision and plain language for non-medical readers, the book creates a platform for multidisciplinary collaborations amongst researchers as well as practitioners from communications, healthcare, the social sciences and pharmacovigilance. Importantly, it advocates for an active role of patients and highlights the achievements and aspirations of patient organisations. Finally, the book suggests establishing an inclusive discipline of humanities and epidemiology of medicinal product risk communication to realise full research potential. The authors are driven by the curiosity for communication as the most human behaviour, and as good health is amongst the basic human needs, medicinal product risk communication is an exciting research field of high global relevance.

Priya Bahri holds degrees in pharmacy and epidemiology, focused her PhD at Humboldt University of Berlin on healthcare quality management, and is trained in strategic communication and global health diplomacy. She worked in pharmacies and for projects of health insurance physicians’ associations and the German international development agency before joining the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in 1996 and specialising in pharmacovigilance. She is active for the Utrecht WHO Collaborating Centre for Pharmaceutical Policy and Regulation and also in learned societies, including as fellow of the International Society of Pharmacovigilance.

ForewordBaruch Fischhoff
Preface: Guide for readersPriya Bahri
Authors’ biographical notes
Overview of contents in chapters
1. A multilayered research framework for humanities and epidemiology of medicinal product risk communicationPriya Bahri
Part I: Medicines in real life as communication challenges2. Hormonal contraceptives - Communication for risk awareness and informed choice, or a public scare?Barbara Mintzes, Teresa Alves, with a contribution from Priya Bahri
3. COX-2 inhibitors - Communication of accumulating risk evidence and a product withdrawalAmy Rogers, Kerr Grieve, Thomas M MacDonald, with a contribution from Sérgio Nishioka
4. Isotretinoin - Communication for preventing birth defects and alerting of an uncertain risk of suicideIneke (HJMJ) Crijns
5. Pandemic influenza vaccines - Communication of benefits, risks and uncertaintiesGlen J Nowak, Emilie Karafillakis, Heidi Larson
Part II: Tackling the challenges – Methods for medicinal product risk communication research6. Ethical frameworksGhislaine van Thiel
7. The cognitive and behavioural sciencesSara Rubinelli, Nicola Diviani, Maddalena Fiordelli 8. The social sciencesBrian Taylor, Anne Moorhead
9. Rhetoric and science & technology studiesMathias Møllebæk
10. Media science and practiceGlen J Nowak, Michael A Cacciatore
11. Social media researchNabarun Dasgupta, Carly Winokur, Carrie E Pierce
12. Design science with a focus on user-centred evaluation of written informationJörg Fuchs
13. Dissemination & implementation scienceElaine Morrato, Meredith Smith
14. PharmacoepidemiologyBert (HGM) Leufkens
15. Legal frameworksBurkhard Sträter
16. From passive to active - Patients as contributors to medicinal product risk communication researchFrançois Houÿez
Afterword: The dimension of communicating medicine risks in low- and middle-income countriesNilima A Kshirsagar

Erscheinungsdatum	29.06.2020
Zusatzinfo	30 Illustrations, color; 2 Illustrations, black and white; XXX, 504 p. 32 illus., 30 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	1060 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pharmakologie / Pharmakotherapie
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pharmazie
Schlagworte	Health Communication • Medical Humanities • Patient-Centred Care • pharmacoepidemiology • pharmacovigilance • Risk Management • Risk Perception • Vaccine safety
ISBN-10	981-15-3012-2 / 9811530122
ISBN-13	978-981-15-3012-8 / 9789811530128
Zustand	Neuware