Transcript Why Medication Adherence?

Script Your Future
Adherence Challenge
[SCHOOL NAME]
[DATE]
A Campaign of the National Consumers League
Agenda
 Why Medication Adherence?
 Script Your Future Campaign Overview
 Past Adherence Challenges
 Adherence Challenges 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015
 Medication Adherence Team Challenge 2016
Why Medication Adherence?
Research on Adherence
 Recognized as a national public health problem
 No single non-adherent personality type
 Many barriers to adherence
Script Your Future Campaign Overview
 Coalition of 135+ public and private stakeholder organizations,
led by the National Consumers League
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Health care
Consumer
Insurance
Business
Pharmaceutical
Government agencies
Adherence researchers
 ScriptYourFuture.org provides adherence tools and resources
for patients, family caregivers and health care professionals
 Focused on cardiovascular disease, respiratory
disease and diabetes
Campaign Resources
 Health care professional website
(ScriptYourFuture.org/HCP)
Campaign Resources
 Consumer website (ScriptYourFuture.org)
What is the Adherence Challenge?
• Month long Challenge open to pharmacy and
other health professions students
• Engages the next generation of health care
professionals
• Promotes the importance of medication
adherence, using Script Your Future materials
• Sponsored by: American Association of Colleges of
Pharmacy, National Association of Chain Drug Stores
Foundation, American Medical Association, National
Community Pharmacists Association, American Pharmacists
Association, and the National Consumers League
Why have a Challenge?
Our goals:
 Plan and implement activities in our community to
raise awareness about medication adherence
 Secure media interest in the issue of medication
adherence and our activities
 Measure and report on our impact
 Engage the next generation of health care leaders
 Encourage the strength of inter-professional care
teams in promoting adherence.
 Outreach to local communities
Medication Adherence Team Challenge
Outreach (2011-2014)
• Since the first Challenge in 2011, Health professions
students:
– Have reached millions of consumers directly and through the
media
– Held over 500 individual
events
– Directly counseled
tens of thousands of patients
Student Pharmacist Adherence Challenge (2011)
Community Events- Creating & Sharing Materials
Medication Adherence Team Challenge
Adherence Challenge – Materials
 Printed campaign materials
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Medication list wallet cards (English and Spanish)
Posters
Stickers
Wallet Card Easel Stands
 Customizable electronic materials
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Press release and media advisory
SYF Consumer PowerPoint Presentation
Letter to the editor
PSA pitch guide
TV PSA guide
Important Dates
 November 20, 2015: Letter of Intent due
 January - March 2016: Challenge
 March 25, 2016: Report due
 May 2016: Awardees notified
Contact Information
 [SCHOOL] Organizer(s):
 [NAME, EMAIL, PHONE]
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 Adherence Team Challenge Contacts:
 Karin Bolte (submissions, media and materials)
[email protected]