Comments on: Drug Adherence Throwdown: Disruptive Women Take on America’s Other Drug Problem http://www.disruptivewomen.net/2009/10/12/drug-adherence-throwdown-disruptive-women-take-on-americas-other-drug-problem/ Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:16:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Robin Strongin http://www.disruptivewomen.net/2009/10/12/drug-adherence-throwdown-disruptive-women-take-on-americas-other-drug-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-22359 Robin Strongin Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:27:44 +0000 http://www.disruptivewomen.net/?p=1732#comment-22359 Thanks very much for the suggestions and input. We will absolutely follow up. Appreciate the important insights. Thanks very much for the suggestions and input. We will absolutely follow up. Appreciate the important insights.

]]> By: kelley connors http://www.disruptivewomen.net/2009/10/12/drug-adherence-throwdown-disruptive-women-take-on-americas-other-drug-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-22352 kelley connors Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:34:56 +0000 http://www.disruptivewomen.net/?p=1732#comment-22352 That's a key issue: gender-based barriers to medication adherence. And, since gender-based is different from sex-based research, we have to look at how women make decisions based on our number one instinct: caregiving - and how the natural tendency to care for others impacts how we decide to (or not decide to) care for ourselves. Great opportunity to identify how companies and organizations can intervene with touchpoints across the multi-dimensional aspects of women's lives. Also, what I'm finding in speaking with women is an overall distrust of "authority" that comes from "medication adherence" and that includes companies that have traditionally not served women well. We haven't even touched on how gender impacts finances..and ability to pay for medications over the required period of time. If women have family that needs resources, the money will come out of their own needs. That’s a key issue: gender-based barriers to medication adherence. And, since gender-based is different from sex-based research, we have to look at how women make decisions based on our number one instinct: caregiving – and how the natural tendency to care for others impacts how we decide to (or not decide to) care for ourselves. Great opportunity to identify how companies and organizations can intervene with touchpoints across the multi-dimensional aspects of women’s lives. Also, what I’m finding in speaking with women is an overall distrust of “authority” that comes from “medication adherence” and that includes companies that have traditionally not served women well. We haven’t even touched on how gender impacts finances..and ability to pay for medications over the required period of time. If women have family that needs resources, the money will come out of their own needs.

]]> By: DCPatient http://www.disruptivewomen.net/2009/10/12/drug-adherence-throwdown-disruptive-women-take-on-americas-other-drug-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-22351 DCPatient Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:17:53 +0000 http://www.disruptivewomen.net/?p=1732#comment-22351 Medication adherence from the patient's perspective has been the most frequently viewed post on my blog -- DCPatient, An Impatient Patient's An Impatient Patient's Perspective on Health Care Today blogged live from Washington DC. http://www.dcpatient.us One of the issues raised recently was that there is very little research on gender-based barriers to medication adherence. That is a ripe area moving forward. Medication adherence from the patient’s perspective has been the most frequently viewed post on my blog — DCPatient, An Impatient Patient’s An Impatient Patient’s Perspective on Health Care Today blogged live from Washington DC. http://www.dcpatient.us

One of the issues raised recently was that there is very little research on gender-based barriers to medication adherence. That is a ripe area moving forward.

]]> By: kelley connors http://www.disruptivewomen.net/2009/10/12/drug-adherence-throwdown-disruptive-women-take-on-americas-other-drug-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-22349 kelley connors Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:21:38 +0000 http://www.disruptivewomen.net/?p=1732#comment-22349 HI Robin. If you'd like to gather some of these through my blogtalkradio show, I'd like to help bring women in from Real Women on Heath! I have 700 members on Linked In and this could be interesting. Just let me know! HI Robin. If you’d like to gather some of these through my blogtalkradio show, I’d like to help bring women in from Real Women on Heath! I have 700 members on Linked In and this could be interesting. Just let me know!

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