Increasingly, I’m becoming more appreciative of, and am on the lookout for, alternative, creative approaches to reach the general public with messages to improve the public dialogue about health care interventions.
So when I went, for the second straight year, to the international Preventing Overdiagnosis conference, which was in Barcelona this year, a new social movement campaign caught my attention.
It’s called ShowMoreSpine…with its own Twitter hashtag – #ShowMoreSpine – and a website, ShowMoreSpine.com, and videos and animations and links to other reading resources and more. It’s addressing overdiagnosis of osteoporosis, with an eye on changing clinical guidelines that the campaigners think amount to disease-mongering.
Of all the members of the team, which includes Finnish orthopedist Teppo Järvinen, Canadian drug policy analyst Alan Cassels (who’s also one of our contributors), Malcolm Willett (whose art you may have seen on the covers of The BMJ), and others, I chose to do a podcast interview with social media guru/social change agent Ajay Puri. Listen to our conversation:
Our next podcast will feature a researcher who uses music video parodies to get his message across.
Other resources on the ShowMoreSpine campaign:
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All episodes of our podcasts are archived on this page on HealthNewsReview.org.
Credit: podcast editor Mitch Skinner
Music credit: “Time Has Come Today,” by The Chambers Brothers (One of my ’60s flashback favorites)
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Lisa Leger
October 11, 2016 at 9:10 pmI admire your work. Here is a CME from Medscape where clinicians are being taught how to explain risk and benefits to patients. thought your team would want to have a look:
http://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/868942?nlid=109762_2707&src=wnl_cmemp_161011_mscpedu_obgy&impID=1213530&faf=1
Gary Schwitzer
October 12, 2016 at 10:41 amLisa,
Thanks for your note.
Our next podcast, scheduled for early next week (week of October 17) will feature risk literacy guru Gerd Gigerenzer of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy in Berlin. He has done a lot of work with physicians on risk literacy issues.
Gary Schwitzer
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