Back to Annual Meeting Page		American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA

Abstract #121209

Deborah Hudson, MPH, Jewel S. Goodman, MPA, Angela Futrell, RN, and Edwina Gary, MS. Pharmacy Care of Hampton Roads, Peninsula Institute for Community Health, 1033 28th Street, Second Floor, Newport News, VA 23607, 757-952-0170, dhudson@pich.org

Community-based healthcare facilities provide health information and preventive, maintenance and full-service medical care to medically underserved populations. By reaching individuals with limited access to healthcare services, these facilities serve as a bridge between underserved populations and health services. The Peninsula Institute for Community Health (PICH) has been responsive to the healthcare and health education needs of Newport News and Peninsula area residents in Virginia since 1978, placing a considerable emphasis on acute and preventive patient care and education. PICH offers comprehensive health and dental services to patients, both insured and uninsured, on a reduced-fee scale. One of the two overarching Healthy People 2010 goals is to eliminate health disparities among minority segments of the population, such as the poorer health status of racial and ethnic minority sub-group populations and the inadequate access to healthcare services. Although research shows that the interfacing of genetics, physical and social environment, and lifestyle impact health disparities, other contributory factors include income, education, and health insurance status. In an attempt to increase knowledge levels, promote healthy lifestyle modifications, and provide educational patient literature to its patients, PICH developed an informational handout to accompany each prescription monograph filled by the Pharmacy Care of Hampton Roads (PCHR) discussing diabetes, asthma, elevated cholesterol, elevated blood pressure, and heart disease was developed. This project demonstrates PICH's commitment to promoting on-going patient education of these five disease states and overall improved health status. The handout includes a description of the disease, symptoms associated with the disease, and suggested lifestyle modifications.

Learning Objectives:

• Participant will be able to develop significant and meaningful, yet brief educational materials for pharmacy patients.
• Participant will be able to articulate the importance of increasing pharmacy patient disease status knowledge and understanding.
• Participant will be able to identify if there exists a need for increasing pharmacy patient knowledge at varying, yet defined, disease status stages.

Keywords: Education, Community-Based Health Promotion

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.