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Engaging the Health Care Consumer

Engaging the Health Care Consumer. Bev Mitchell, MSN, RN. Health Literacy & PHRs: A barrier or empowerment Strategy?. Working definition of Health literacy Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and its management The concept of self-management Personal health records as self-management tool

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Engaging the Health Care Consumer

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  1. Engaging the Health Care Consumer Bev Mitchell, MSN, RN

  2. Health Literacy & PHRs:A barrier or empowerment Strategy? Working definition of Health literacy Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and its management The concept of self-management Personal health records as self-management tool Health literacy and PHRs using Nutbeam (2000) health literacy framework

  3. Inquiry …….to explore the concept of health literacy and its relationship to COPD patients’ ability to achieve self-management through the use of personalized electronic health records.

  4. Health literacy definition… Kickbusch, Wait & Maag (2005)… “critical empowerment strategy to increase people’s control over their health” Zarcadoolas, Pleasant & Greer (2005) …“to make informed choices, reduce health risks and increase quality of life” (p.197).

  5. COPD: What is the impact? fourth leading cause of chronic morbidity and mortality throughout the world ranks fifth as a worldwide burden of disease by 2020 by WHO complex care demands of COPD leading cause of hospitalization in the United States, particularly among older populations (55 – 75 years)

  6. Overview of COPD progressive chronic airway inflammation airflow limitation that is not fully reversible chronic cough, sputum production, wheezing, dyspnea, forced expiration history of exposure limit normal physical activities of daily living that can negatively impact quality of life

  7. COPD: management prevent disease progression and complications and relieve symptoms goals of health education are to ameliorate quality of life

  8. Self-management paradigm shift expectations that individuals demonstrate the capacity to manage their health and wellbeing specific skills and knowledge autonomy & empowerment

  9. Self-management participation in education designed to bring about specific outcomes preparing individuals to manage their health condition on a day-to-day basis practicing specific behaviours having the skills and abilities to reduce the physical and emotional impact of illness with or without the collaboration of the health care team (McGowan, 2005)

  10. Issues programs inaccessible unintended consequences health inequalities unnecessary risk

  11. Personalized electronic health records strategy for self-management barriers: health literacy access cognitive and physical disabilities

  12. Personalized electronic health records generate health records and manage health information integrate with providers’ information systems track health status in conjunction with providers book hospital appointments store and chart health indicators, e.g. BP auto-generated email reminders links to on-line health information

  13. Nutbeam’s Health Literacy Framework functional or basic interactive critical

  14. Functional Health Literacy:considerations readability and numerical concepts embedded in instructions use of relevant examples avoid using jargon older adults have shown to learn better from visual presentations pictorial and other visual touch screens

  15. Interactive Health Literacy:considerations on-line peer networks health information media literacy eHealth literacy

  16. Critical Health Literacy:considerations based on foundational collaboration empowerment?

  17. Conclusion COPD care complex PHR potential tool for self-management assess and match literacy levels collaborative approaches more research is necessary……

  18. PHR Example….

  19. Questions??

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