KAREN WOLK FEINSTEIN, PhDPresident and CEO, Pittsburgh Regional Health InitiativeNovember 5, 2015

ENGAGING AND ACTIVATING PATIENTS AND FAMILIES: THE POWER OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

MAKING HOSPITALS

SAFER

KEEPING PEOPLE OUT

OF HOSPITALS

IMPROVING THE CAPACITY OF PRIMARY CARE TEAMS

SUPPORTING AN ACTIVATED

PATIENT-PROVIDER

RELATIONSHIP

MAKING HOSPITALS

SAFER

KEEPING PEOPLE OUT

OF HOSPITALS

IMPROVING THE CAPACITY OF PRIMARY CARE TEAMS

SUPPORTING AN ACTIVATED

PATIENT-PROVIDER

RELATIONSHIP

I Grew Up on Social MovementsI Love Social Movements and Revolutions

• Civil Rights• War on Poverty• Anti-War Movement• Women’s Movement (Feminist)• De-Institutionalization of the Mentally Ill and Retarded• Hospice• AIDS Activism

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Successful Health Movements

• Planned Parenthood• Our Bodies Ourselves: Reclaiming Women’s Health• HIV/AIDS Activism• Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure: Breast Cancer• Hospice, End of Life, and Palliative Care• Center for Science in the Public Interest:

Food & Nutrition• Mothers Against Drunk Driving• Buckle Up• Multiple Myeloma Drug Discovery

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Five Problems Ripe for Activation

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Pregnant Women & Families

At Risk for Diabetes & Heart Disease

Frail Seniors Living in

the Community

Parents & Children

At-Risk Families

PERINATAL

DEPRESSION

BRCA1 & BRCA2

HPV VACCINAT

ION

HOUSING

OPTIONS

NUTRITION

NRHI Videos

• Hour-long live event: https://vimeo.com/141324828• • Coffee chat: https://vimeo.com/140019415

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