Self advocacy is about taking a proactive approach to all stages of health and illness: prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. When people take an active role in their care, research shows they fare better both in satisfaction and in how well treatments work. In this talk you will learn how to develop the skills to be a good self-advocate, communicate effectively with your doctors, evaluate the latest health news headlines and find the best health information online.
Are you looking to refresh your current workplace wellness program or have you thought about starting a workplace wellness program and don't know where to begin? Check out Workplace Wellness 2.0. In 60 minutes, you'll learn the 10 easy steps to create an inexpensive, community-based, volunteer-managed, thriving wellness initiative. Hope Health's managing editor, Jen Cronin, will walk you through the effective strategy based on the custom publisher's 30-plus years of working with hundreds of organizations and their workplace wellness efforts.
Learning Objectives:
How to begin a new program, or add new life to an existing wellness program, with the Workplace Wellness 2.0 concepts
How to take advantage of inexpensive, free and readily available resources to power your wellness program
How to create a program WITH employees vs. FOR employees.
About The Presenter
Jen Cronin
Managing Editor
Hope Health
An avid runner and foodie, Jen's goal is to help others embrace — and enjoy — a healthful lifestyle by creating inspiring, engaging, and fun content that focuses on simple ways people can take care of their mind, body, and spirit. Jen has more than 18 years of writing, editing, and communications project management experience. She has worked as a health reporter, a public relations specialist at a major medical school, and a marketing communications consultant for a Blue Cross Blue Shield affiliate before coming to HOPE Health in 2009.
to understand importance of wellness programs in corporates and means or technology like InBody for wellness programs and camps for employees good health at corporates minimising loss due to bad health of employees and medical claims expenditure.
Health, well-being and productivity improvement in the workplaceLimeade
Slides from a webinar with Dr. Michael Parkinson and Limeade.
We spend $2.8 trillion on healthcare but much is attributed to waste or behaviors we can change. The best place for behavior change? The workplace.
The slides review:
- common drivers of health and productivity in the workplace
- how you can address them in your own organization
- 6-step roadmap to improvement
100+ PowerPoint presentation content slides. Does your company experience loss in employee productivity due to illness and poor health? Would you like to know how to solve this problem?
Keynote address by Anna Dixon (Chief Executive, Centre for Ageing Better) at the Royal College of Occupational Therapists Older People Annual Conference 2017.
Are you looking to refresh your current workplace wellness program or have you thought about starting a workplace wellness program and don't know where to begin? Check out Workplace Wellness 2.0. In 60 minutes, you'll learn the 10 easy steps to create an inexpensive, community-based, volunteer-managed, thriving wellness initiative. Hope Health's managing editor, Jen Cronin, will walk you through the effective strategy based on the custom publisher's 30-plus years of working with hundreds of organizations and their workplace wellness efforts.
Learning Objectives:
How to begin a new program, or add new life to an existing wellness program, with the Workplace Wellness 2.0 concepts
How to take advantage of inexpensive, free and readily available resources to power your wellness program
How to create a program WITH employees vs. FOR employees.
About The Presenter
Jen Cronin
Managing Editor
Hope Health
An avid runner and foodie, Jen's goal is to help others embrace — and enjoy — a healthful lifestyle by creating inspiring, engaging, and fun content that focuses on simple ways people can take care of their mind, body, and spirit. Jen has more than 18 years of writing, editing, and communications project management experience. She has worked as a health reporter, a public relations specialist at a major medical school, and a marketing communications consultant for a Blue Cross Blue Shield affiliate before coming to HOPE Health in 2009.
to understand importance of wellness programs in corporates and means or technology like InBody for wellness programs and camps for employees good health at corporates minimising loss due to bad health of employees and medical claims expenditure.
Health, well-being and productivity improvement in the workplaceLimeade
Slides from a webinar with Dr. Michael Parkinson and Limeade.
We spend $2.8 trillion on healthcare but much is attributed to waste or behaviors we can change. The best place for behavior change? The workplace.
The slides review:
- common drivers of health and productivity in the workplace
- how you can address them in your own organization
- 6-step roadmap to improvement
100+ PowerPoint presentation content slides. Does your company experience loss in employee productivity due to illness and poor health? Would you like to know how to solve this problem?
Keynote address by Anna Dixon (Chief Executive, Centre for Ageing Better) at the Royal College of Occupational Therapists Older People Annual Conference 2017.
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Social: The ability to interact effectively with other people and the social environment, to develop satisfying interpersonal relationships, and to fulfill social roles.
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Environmental: The impact your world has on your well well-being.
Men's Health & Primary Care: Improving Access and OutcomesMen's Health Forum
Presentation made to the EMHF Primary Care Roundtable about men's health and primary care access - including usage of the internet for health purposes - England - July 2, 2014
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Physical dimension: Good physical fitness and confidence in one’s personal ability to take care of health problems.
Emotional: refers to both our emotional and mental states – that is, to our feelings and our thoughts.
Spiritual: Refers to individuals identify their own basic purpose in life; learn how to experience love, joy, peace, and fulfillment; and help themselves and others achieve their full potential.
Occupational: Deriving personal satisfaction from your vocation, that provides creativity and challenge.
Social: The ability to interact effectively with other people and the social environment, to develop satisfying interpersonal relationships, and to fulfill social roles.
Intellectual: Your ability to think and learn from life experience, your openness to ideas, and your capacity to question and evaluate information.
Environmental: The impact your world has on your well well-being.
Men's Health & Primary Care: Improving Access and OutcomesMen's Health Forum
Presentation made to the EMHF Primary Care Roundtable about men's health and primary care access - including usage of the internet for health purposes - England - July 2, 2014
Exercise is defined as any movement that makes your muscles work and requires your body to burn calories. There are many types of physical activity, including swimming, running, jogging, walking and dancing, to name a few. Being active has been shown to have many health benefits, both physically and mentally. It may even help you live longer.
Discussion of factors leading to increased frustration among Intensive Care Staff. A well known entity "BURNOUT SYNDROME" lecture to help establish the causes and to find solutions.
Health System Consortium Investigates Cost of Medical Device VariationTom McNaull
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We provide implementation service for Medical which is an open source, centralized Health and Hospital Information System that provides the following functionality :
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1. How To Be Your Own
Health Advocate
Marie Ennis
Europa Donna Ireland
The Irish Breast Cancer Campaign
2. Health Advocacy
Health advocacy encompasses direct service
to the individual or family as well as activities
that promote health and access to health care
in communities and the larger public.
Advocates support and promote the rights of
the patient in the health care arena, help
build capacity to improve community health
and enhance health policy initiatives focused
on available, safe and quality care. Wikipedia
3.
4. It’s important that we be
self advocates for our
health because who better
than us knows what we
need? ~ Jan
5. I believe being your own advocate means
moving past the paralysis of bad news into
active participation. If we don’t participate,
our voice isn’t heard and decisions are made
which may not be the best for our physical
and/or emotional health. Once we actively
engage in our own health care, we start
educating ourselves, asking questions and
demanding answers, and making hard
choices. Not only are better decisions made,
but we take back some control over our lives.
~ Debbie
6. You have to take responsibility for
understanding the risk and benefits for
any proposed treatment. You can’t
accept doctors recommendations
blindly. My oncologist initially
recommended ‘a moderate course’ of
chemotherapy to treat my breast cancer.
But after further testing and a careful
look at the benefits versus risks we both
agreed the risks and benefits were about
equal. Therefore, I opted out. I think I
made the right decision. ~ Lisa
7. Engaging In Your Healthcare
We have to participate actively and knowledgeably in our
care if we are to realize its benefits ~ Jessie Gruman
"I am constantly impressed with the tools that are now
available to treat diagnoses that – even a decade ago –
were death sentences. But what is widely overlooked
about these advances is the extent to which their success
depends on our participation. We have to show up. We
have to do the exercises. We have to take the pills.We
have to avoid the risks – or we don’t realize the benefit."
Delivered at the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement’s Colloquium on Health Care Transformation: “Thriving in an Era
of Health Care Reform: Advancing Accountability, Affordability and the Patient Experience,” St. Paul, Minnesota,
May 18, 2011 http://e-patients.net/archives/2011/06/jessie-gruman-at-icsi.html
9. 1. Talking To Your Doctor
A. Ask Questions
B. Be Prepared
C. Communicate Clearly
10. The most important ingredient to
being a successful advocate is to
embrace your right to ask as many
questions as necessary and as often
as necessary until you understand
all your options. There are never
any “stupid” questions ~ Cara
11. A. Ask Questions
• What is my condition?
• How was it caused?
• What treatment do you propose?
• Are there other treatment options
available?
• What is the expected course of this
illness if I don’t have this treatment?
12. Ask About Your Medication
• How does this medication work?
• Should I take it with or without food?
• Can I take it with other medications?
• Any possible side effects?
• Do I need to follow any restrictions (alcohol,
driving)?
• How long will I need to take my medicine?
• What should I do if I miss a dose?
13. B. Be Prepared
• Research your symptoms
• Make a list of the most important issues
to take with you
• Mention your relevant family history
• Take notes
• Ask someone to come with you to your
doctor visits
14. C. Communicate Clearly
• Ask your most important • Ask the doctor to explain
questions first, in case the what he or she said in terms
doctor runs out of time you understand
• Be clear about what's • Repeat back in your own
bothering you words what you think the
doctor meant
• Be honest about how much
you really smoke, drink, or • Tell your doctor if you need
eat; whether you’ve stopped more information
taking your medication
15. 2. Accurate Knowledge
• Knowledge is the key to personal health
advocacy
• Your knowledge about your illness, and how
you use this knowledge, can make a
difference in how well you live.
• Everyone can find the information they need.
If you don’t know where to begin to look or if
you are not sure you can do it yourself, you
probably do have friends or relatives who can
help find information
17. Fact Or Fiction?
• Don’t just read the headline. Read the original study
report, and look for details about the research done to
support this new theory.
• Was the study in humans? Often these tests will not have
been tried on humans yet. What works in animals does
not always have the same effect on people.
• How big was the study? Has it been reviewed by experts?
• Look at the author's credentials. Are they respected in
their professional field?
• Does the story make a drug sound like it’s available at the
local pharmacy when it’s really only in an early-phase
trial?
18. Internet
• A lot of good information online and a lot
of false information
• Ask your doc what sites s/he recommends
• Discuss findings with doctor
• Important to question your sources
• Trust your judgment - too good to be true
usually means it is
19. How To Evaluate A Website
• Who manages this information? Check the
"About Us" section
• What is the original source of the information
that they have posted? Published in research
journal?
• How is information reviewed before it gets
posted? Peer reviewed?
• How current is the information? Online health
sites should show the date of publication and
last review
20.
21.
22. 3. Personal Health Record
Can you get copies of your records/treatment
summaries?
As you move forward, ask for copies of reports,
test results etc. while you're in the doctor's
office
23. How To Keep Your PHR
• File folders
• Three-ring binders
• Memory stick
• Internet medical record services
• Both electronic and paper records is
a way to have a back-up set of files
24. I would suggest keeping copies of all
.
of your records at home and/or
making an Excel file with dates,
main points, changes in medications,
major tests, etc. Plus keeping a
computer list of all of your
medications. I also make a small
copy of these lists to carry in my bag
and both my husband and I carry
copies of each other's lists. ~Lois
25. What To Include
• Personal Information
• Family Medical History
• Your Past Medical History
• Next of Kin Contact Details
• Health Insurance Details
• Family Doctor Contact Details
• Blood Type
• Allergies
• Medication (list any drugs and dosage)
• Consultant Reports
• Routine Test Results
26. In conclusion….
“The end result of advocacy is empowerment.
Sweet empowerment. Advocacy makes you
more than just a number or statistic; you
become a force to be reckoned with, a
questioner. And there is great comfort in
answers that make sense to you” ~ Renn
Remember, your best advocate is you!