Empowered Health aims to help you reduce risk, treat, and survive cancer by growing your confidence and teaching you the skills and benefits of making decisions with your healthcare team.
Which Best Describes You?
Becoming An Empowered Patient
Did you know that feeling and acting empowered can help improve your cancer and overall health outcomes, adjust faster to a medical condition like cancer, follow your treatment or care plan more easily, and have increased confidence?
Making Healthcare Decisions Is Tough. Empowered Health Can Help
Sometimes it’s hard to know which cancer treatment or medical procedure is best for you. This video offers tips for how you can work with your healthcare team to make decisions that address what’s most important to you.
Healthcare Professionals: One Question Can Help Your Patients
Do you know the one question to ask your patients when they are faced with making an important medical decision that can lead them to feel more confident and in-control?
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As Empowered Health Ambassadors, we share our triumphs, struggles, and lessons learned to hopefully empower YOU.
Welcome to the Patient Empowerment Network’s Empowered Health website. The content for this website was developed by the CDC Foundation with technical support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and is made possible by a partnership between the CDC Foundation and the Patient Empowerment Network (PEN).