Transcript Medication Adherence Team Challenge

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 Challenge 2011
 Adherence Team Challenge 2013
 Medication Adherence Team Challenge 2014
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 Association of
Colleges of Nursing, American Pharmacists Association
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 21, 2014: Letter of Intent due
 January - February 2015: Challenge
 March 13, 2015: Report due
 May 2015: Awardees notified
Contact Information
 [SCHOOL] Organizer(s):
 [NAME, EMAIL, PHONE]
 [NAME, EMAIL, PHONE]
 Adherence Team Challenge Contacts:
 Ayanna Johnson (submissions, media and materials)
[email protected]