Judgement and Decision Making in Healthcare

This course aims to achieve a number of objectives as follows:

1] Knowledge of the theoretical and methodological foundations of the psychology of judgment and decision-making applied to the field of health.
2] Knowledge of the psychological, cognitive, contextual and social determinants of choices in the field of disease prevention and health promotion.
3] Understanding of the mechanisms internal to the individual and related to the social and contextual system that can promote errors and sub-optimal decisions.
4] Understanding of individual- and system-related predisposing factors that can promote decision fatigue in health professionals.
5] Understanding of individual decision-making needs associated with different diseases and the intervention tools and techniques that can be implemented to support decision-making in health care.

1] Will have acquired the ability to recognize and understand the psychological, cognitive, contextual, and social determinants that influence choices in the area of disease prevention and health promotion.
2] Will be able to use the main theories of judgment and decision-making to analyze decision-making processes in the context of health, at the individual, group and organizational levels.
3] Will be able to describe possible strategies and methodologies to support choice processes, in the field of health.