Co-authors:
Catherine Hooey, Pittsburg State University
James Triplett, Pittsburg State University

The goals of this paper are (1) to provide an overview of sustainability-enhanced approaches to patient-centered health care (2) to examine health communication in the sustainability context through multiple forms, channels and messages, and (3) to provide professional resources for increasing  capacity building between patients, health care providers and the communities they serve.  and promotion of health services, (c) engagement and community outreach, and (d) health care policies that contribute to the long term co-benefits of sustainable health care systems.