PUBH 520

Patient and Consumer Activation:

1. Please take the Patient Activation Measure (please see attached document in the Assignment Dropbox), score it and report back about the level of difficulty you fall under. You do not need to show me your specific responses.

2. Now, please ask a friend or family member who is NOT in the health field to take the PAM. Ask them to score their own responses and report back you about the level of difficulty he/she falls under. He/she does not need to show his/her specific responses.

3. Now compare the levels of difficulty between yourself and the other person. What factors do you think may have caused any differences there are?

4. How would you incorporate patient activation into an intervention to change your selected personal health behavior?

Patient Communication:

1. How are patient activation (score on PAM) and health literacy related? How might patient activation and health literacy affect the power differential in a physician-patient relationship?

2. What are some measures you would take to empower patients/clients and increase their health literacy if you developed an intervention to change your selected personal health behavior?