PrintVision
To be the effective coalition of patient-focused and professional organizations that improves bone and joint health in all persons in the United States.
Mission
To promote and facilitate collaboration among the public, patients, and organizations to improve bone and joint health through education, research and advocacy.
Value for Belonging
- Only organization that assembles the broad musculoskeletal community and has patient advocacy organizations and MSK professional organizations as members;
- Has and will continue to provide a forum for communication among patients, patient advocacy groups, providers, payers, and industry representatives for collaboration on optimal treatment and prevention of MSK disorders;
- Offers a single creditable voice for all segments of the organization on issues of common concern;
- Offers problem solving abilities on MSK issues that are truly a multidisciplinary collaboration.
Guiding Principles
- Remain an organization of organizations;
- Ensure the core disciplines remain involved;
- Recognize multidisciplinary healthcare professional and patient advocacy (volunteer health agency) organizations are the principal organizational drivers;
- Ensure achievable objectives on a programmatic level;
- Ensure a broad focus on cross-cutting themes, such as awareness/advocacy, public health, prevention, research, access to care, disparities, affordability;
- Focus on bringing disparate groups together;
- Focus on being a forum for interdisciplinary discussion and action;
- Maintain a focus on the burden of musculoskeletal conditions where issues address a broader concern;
- Identify where priority issues are already being, or should be addressed, by constituent organizations, and where the USBJI itself is best suited to take the lead, or address unmet goals.
Goals
- To raise awareness about ways to prevent, manage, and reduce the escalating burden of musculoskeletal disease;
- To develop advocacy and training programs to ensure appropriate care for musculoskeletal disorders is available for all individuals and to address inequities in accessing appropriate care;
- To generate and disseminate prevalence, economic and societal costs and trends data, relating to musculoskeletal disease, to be used in supporting USBJI programs;
- To create and foster interdisciplinary forums and provide programs on issues of common concern and opportunities with regard to making advances in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of musculoskeletal disorders.
