HCP has leveraged our years of working on health equity with leaders across the health sector to bring you our newest course: Equitable Patient Education. Equitable Patient Education teaches you to recognize and manage system- and individual-level barriers to equitable patient education, so all patients benefit from the effectiveness of patient education on their health. […]
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Episode 151 Looking at communication with equity lenses
Everyone has equity goals we’re trying to reach, often as part of our regular jobs. In this episode I offer some help, maybe encouragement on how we can advance on our health equity goals, by taking equity lenses on communication. Hi everybody, this is “10 Minutes to Better Patient Communication” from Health Communication Partners. I’m […]
Announcing our new course: Equitable Patient Education
Effective patient education improves health outcomes. Six decades of research proves patient education’s effectiveness on patients’ physical, psychological and physiological outcomes [1,2,3]. Patient education is also cost-effective [4]. For every dollar invested in patient education, 3-4 dollars are saved [5]. Patient education also has the potential to impact health equity. As an essential component of […]
Episode 150 1 question to ask when you’re using equity lenses
It’s great that ‘equity lenses’ is a concept that’s made it into wider use. Here’s one important question I’m going to suggest you keep in mind if you decide to put on equity lenses. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT There’s a phrase I’m seeing crop up more and more in equity and health equity conversations, and it’s “equity […]
Watch this play and documentary about rare diseases
Thanks to our dear friend, Professor of Social Pharmacy Dr. Paul Ranelli, for sharing links to a play and documentary about rare diseases. “RARE: Stories of Dis-ease” is a play about the often-hidden experiences of people with rare diseases, told from the perspectives of patients and their families. The play’s last performance by the Sod […]
Episode 148 5 reasons why communication should be part of any health equity strategy
When it comes to health equity, everybody knows where they need to be, and wants to take action. But how? Here’s 5 reasons why communication should be part of any health equity strategy. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Hello Partners, welcome! If you’re a manager or an administrator who’s tasked with moving the needle on health equity, or […]