ILC Research Fellow Arunima Himawan presents on how we can inspire and engage individuals, healthcare professionals and policymakers with delivering prevention in an ageing world.
3. Inspiring and engaging people
with the prevention agenda
Arun Himawan, Research Fellow, ILC
@ilcuk
#DeliveringPrevention
4. Our programme of work
• Is moving away from “why” prevention is important to “how”
we can deliver it – we want solutions
• Focuses on the role of healthcare systems
• Focuses on G20 countries
• Focuses on prevention across the life course, with particular
attention to older adults
5. Inspiring and engaging policymakers
• Make prevention visible
• Build a coalition of the willing
• Use quick wins and engage local policymakers to encourage
governments to invest
How do we encourage greater national investment in longer-term
preventative strategies? What examples of good practice can we
learn from? How were national policymakers influenced to take
action in these cases?
6. Discussion
• How do we make preventative health
more visible?
• How do we create a coalition of the willing?
• Is using quick wins and engaging local
policymakers to encourage reluctant
governments to invest in longer-term
prevention an effective approach?
• How else can we get policymakers engaged
with prevention?
• How can we get finance ministers
engaged with the prevention agenda?
7. Inspiring and engaging healthcare
professionals
• Close the gap between public health and primary healthcare
• Support and maximise the role of allied healthcare professions
• Share patient data to facilitate better coordinated care
What are the biggest barriers facing healthcare and allied
professionals to delivering preventative healthcare, and how can
they be supported? What needs to change, and who do we need to
influence?
8. Discussion
• What barriers do countries face in integrating public
health with primary healthcare and how can they be
overcome?
• How else can countries integrate public health with
primary healthcare?
• Which preventative health strategies should be
implemented nationally and which locally?
• How can we influence policymakers to better
support and maximise the roles of allied health
professionals in delivering prevention?
• What barriers prevent allied healthcare
professions from taking a more active role in
delivering preventative healthcare?
• How can we encourage greater data sharing
across public and private healthcare systems?
Who else within the healthcare system should
have access to patient data?
• How do we address data privacy
concerns and how can we ensure
patients are empowered to own
their own data?
9. Inspiring and engaging individuals
• Change the messenger
• Ensure that all healthcare professionals promote prevention
• Use behavioural economics to improve uptake
How else can we instil a culture of prevention across people’s
lives? Who do we need to influence to make this happen? Which
countries have been most successful in achieving this and how?
10. Discussion
• How do we encourage healthcare systems
and policymakers to collaborate with trusted
sources to help deliver messaging?
• How else can we deliver preventative
messaging to improve uptake?
• How can we successfully encourage all
healthcare professionals to promote
prevention?
• Do you know of any successful examples
where behavioural techniques have been
used to shift people’s health behaviours?
• How do we encourage policymakers to
implement behavioural techniques in their
preventative health strategies at a national
level?
Who else should we be engaging with the prevention
agenda other than policymakers, healthcare
professionals, and individuals?
But we need to make sure that everyone benefits and no one is left behind.
We know that… many preventative services don’t reach everyone equally. Democratising access is about… (give definition).
But we need to make sure that everyone benefits and no one is left behind.
We know that… many preventative services don’t reach everyone equally. Democratising access is about… (give definition).
