Health policy for health professions students: Building capacity for community advocacy in developing nations

Digital vaccine passports and digital health diplomacy: an online model WHO simulation

“…Online simulations could be more rapidly adapted than in-person meetings to reflect changing geopolitics. This can potentially improve the local capacity for community advocacy and health policy change in developing nations, 18 enabling more significant citizen input into local health governance, 50 and care services. 47 …”

Health Advocacy and Health Communication for Elderly Health Care Consumers: Rationale, Demand, and Policy Implications

“…The GALA training program adapts communication education to the unique advocacy environments in different health care settings and countries, working adaptively with health advocates to address their specific advocacy challenges (Kreps & Kim, 2013). Similarly, in recent years a number of important advocacy training programs have been developed to help health care professionals develop the communication skills needed to be effective health advocates (Blenner, Lang, & Prelip, 2017; Godinho, Murthy, & Ciraj, 2017; Masai et al, 2017; Soklaridis et al, 2018).…”

“…A growing body of compelling empirical evidence illustrates that effective health advocacy services significantly enhance health outcomes for vulnerable patients (Dillardet al, 2018; Dohan & Shrag, 2005; Greenfield, Kaplan, & Ware, 1985; Kahanaet al, 2010; Kreps, 2003; Kreps & Chapelsky Massimilla, 2002; Kreps & O'Hair, 1995; Kreps & Sivaram, 2010; Mattson & Lam, 2015; Natale‐Pereira et al 2011; Sklar, 2016; Thomas, 2019). Yet there still are limited health advocacy resources for many elderly patients, as well as insufficient relevant and effective policies and programs to promote, support, and sustain health advocacy services for consumers within the modern health care system (Conrad et al, 2019; Godinho, Murthy, & Ciraj, 2017; Sklar, 2016).…”

‘Serious Games’ for unboxing Global Digital Health policymaking

“…While the health sciences have long used games and simulation-based learning for clinical education, the concept of ‘health political science’ has only very recently begun to gain traction. 6 In the past decade, health policy debate simulations have modelled global, 7 international/regional, 8 national 9 and local policymaking bodies. 10 These addressed pertinent ethical, cultural and environmental issues in health, such as international maternal surrogacy legislation, 7 ‘Health in All Policies’, 10 the Affordable Care Act 11 and even the health impacts of climate change, as recently published in The Lancet Planetary Health .…”

“…An educational approach uses serious games as instructive tools to teach learners about the digital health policymaking process, empowering them with the knowledge to build community advocacy and digital literacy for local implementation. 9 13 Open-source online platforms (eg, O-MUN) can enable universal accessibility for wider citizen participation. 12 For example, a policymaking simulation on the issue of health data privacy could be used to teach about the policy issues of data ownership, sharing and analysis; as well as the corresponding policy solutions, both regulatory and technical.…”