Healthcare Access for All
Welcome! Our Healthcare Access for All program includes:
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Patient Advocacy Workshops
These are online workshops, available separately with a Northern Ireland and Los Angeles, California focus. They are free of charge. You can be located anywhere in the world to be able to register and attend the workshops. They equip participants with practical skills to advocate for themselves and their loved ones. These one hour sessions cover:
- Your Rights as a Patient
- How to Stand Up for yourself and Be Heard
- Knowing your Health Insurance Eligibility and How to Sign Up and Renew (Los Angeles workshops only)
- How to Research Online as an ePatient
- Where to Get Help
Online Video Courses
Our eleven comprehensive video courses cover essential topics for empowered healthcare navigation. These include:
- Your Rights as a Patient
- Patient Empowerment and the ePatient Movement (How to Stand Up for Yourself and be Heard)
- What to do When You Can’t Get a Diagnosis
- Finding Credible Information Online (How to Research Online as an ePatient)
- Knowing your Health Insurance Eligibility and How to Sign Up and Renew (Los Angeles, US focused)
- Health Literacy (The Language of Health)
- Preventing Medical Errors
- Building Your Healthcare Team
- Approaches to Patient Advocacy
- Managing Opioids and other Controlled Substances
- Understanding the Role of a Patient Advocate
Online Peer to Peer Events
We have hosted six impactful online panels, reaching over 1,000 attendees. These events foster community and shared learning. Our most recent panel, “How to Stand Up for Yourself: Patient Empowerment and the ePatient Movement with a focus on IBD,” exemplifies our commitment to addressing specific health challenges.
Low health literacy is a critical barrier to equitable healthcare access and positive health outcomes. Individuals with limited health literacy are significantly more likely to delay or forgo necessary medical care, struggle to find appropriate providers, and have difficulty understanding health information and instructions. This not only impacts timely entry into the healthcare system but also hinders effective self-management of chronic conditions, increases the likelihood of preventable hospitalizations, and contributes to higher healthcare costs. and negatively affect patient safety. These challenges disproportionately affect vulnerable and underserved communities, exacerbating existing health disparities.
In the US for example,, low health literacy can increase the risk of medical errors and deaths (conservatively estimated at 250k annually in a 2016 John Hopkins study “a more realistic number is 440,000”) and negatively affect patient safety. These challenges disproportionately affect vulnerable and underserved communities, exacerbating existing health disparities.