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WISEWOMAN 2008 At A Glance: Improving the Health of
Low-Income and Uninsured Women
In 2008, the total cost of heart disease and stroke for the United
States is projected to be more than $448 billion. This cost includes
health care expenditures and lost work productivity. This economic
burden disproportionately affects people with limited resources.
Low-income women are more likely to be uninsured or underinsured; to
have less access to health care services; and to be unable to pay for
needed prevention, screening, and treatment services.....[MORE]
WISEWOMAN Works: A Collection of Success Stories
WISEWOMAN Works is a collection of success stories highlighting some of
the ways that CDC–funded WISEWOMAN Programs are making a difference for
financially disadvantaged women participants. Through success stories, WISEWOMAN Works provides a method for health professionals to share
information about grassroots efforts to promote the health of women in
need. By including sections on how to use success stories, writing your
own success stories, and adapting your stories for multiple purposes,
WISEWOMAN Works provides technical assistance to help health professionals
capture success stories. A total of 25 stories have been published in two
volumes and provide examples of strategies that build strong WISEWOMAN
programs: expanding access, reaching culturally diverse women, women
helping women, and developing partnerships.
Vol. 1: Entire Publication
(PDF–4,760K)
WISEWOMAN Works: A Collection of Success Stories From Program Inception
Through 2002 (published in 2003)
Also available as individual
success stories.
Vol. 2: Entire
Publication
(PDF–650K)
WISEWOMAN Works: A Collection of Success Stories on Empowering Women to
Stop Smoking (published in 2005)
Also available as individual
success stories.
WISEWOMAN Publications
The June 2004 issue of the Journal of Women's Health features
17 research articles about CDC's WISEWOMAN program. The overall goal of
these articles is to review current WISEWOMAN demonstration programs and
to select the best practices that can be useful to other programs and
future WISEWOMAN sites. Authors examine a wide range of topics, such as
issues in health disparities research, how to conduct local program
evaluation, and specific programmatic strategies that boost success in a
underserved population.
This listing of publications is designed to
provide you with more information on WISEWOMAN.
- WISEWOMAN Brochure
(PDF–3.3M) Also available as an HTML
version.
- WISEWOMAN Briefing Document
(PDF–3.6M) Also available as an
HTML version.
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WISEWOMAN At A Glance 2007: A Crosscutting Program to Improve the Health
of Uninsured Women
(PDF–2,007K)
Also available as an
HTML version.
- Farris, R., J. Will, O.A. Khavjou, and E.A. Finkelstein. Feb 28 2007
“Beyond
Effectiveness: Evaluating The Public Health Impact of the WISEWOMAN
Program.” American Journal of Public Health. [Epub ahead of
print].
- Khavjou O, Finkelstein E, Will J. 2007. “Impact of Medication Use in
a Multi-component Intervention: Results from the WISEWOMAN Program."
American Journal of Health Promotion. 21(4): 267–273. (http://apt.allenpress.com/aptonline/?request=get-abstract&issn=0890-1171&volume=021&issue=04&page=0267)
- Farris R, Sanders C, Stockmyer C. WISEWOMAN: Reducing Health
Disparities in Women. The Digest: A Practice Group of the American
Dietetic Association, Winter 2001.
- Finkelstein EA; Troped PJ; Will JC; Palombo R. Cost–effectiveness of
a cardiovascular disease risk reduction program aimed at financially
vulnerable women: The Massachusetts WISEWOMAN Program. Journal of
Women's Health & Gender Based Medicine 2002; 11(6):519–526.
- Ford ES, Will JC, DeProust Ford MA, Mokdad AH. Health insurance
status and cardiovascular disease risk factors among 50–64 year–old U.S.
women: Findings from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination
Survey. Journal of Women's Health 1998; 7(8):997–1006.
- Nelson TL, Hunt KJ, Rosamond WD, Ammerman AS, Keyserling TC, Mokdad
AH, Will JC. Obesity and associated coronary heart disease risk factors
in a population of low–income African American and white women: North
Carolina WISEWOMAN program. Preventive Medicine 2002; 35:1–6.
- Rosamond WD, Ammerman AS, Holliday JL, Tawney KW, Hunt KJ,
Keyserling TC, Will JC, Mokdad AH. Cardiovascular disease risk factor
intervention in low–income women: the North Carolina WISEWOMAN program.
Preventive Medicine 2000; 31(4):370–379.
- Sellers DB, Thompson–Robinson M, Parra–Medina D, Wilcox S, Thompson
N, Will, JC. Readability of educational materials targeting CVD risk
factors in African American women. American Journal of Health Studies
2003; 18:188–94.
- Wilcox S. Parra–Median D. Thompson-Robinson M. Willl J. Nutrition
and physical activity interventions to reduce cardiovascular disease
risk in health care settings: a quantitative review with a focus on
women. Nutrition Reviews, Jul 2001; 59(7):197–214.
- Will JC, Massoudi B, Mokdad A, et al. Reducing risk for
cardiovascular disease in uninsured women: combined results from two
WISEWOMAN Programs. JAMA, Fall 2001; 56(4):161–165.
- The WISEWOMAN Workgroup Cardiovascular Disease Prevention for Women
Attending Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Programs: The WISEWOMAN
Programs. Preventive Medicine 1999; 28:496–502.
WISEWOMAN Best Practices Toolkit: Lessons
Learned from Selected Projects
The WISEWOMAN Best Practices Toolkit provides guidance, resources, and
technical tools to help WISEWOMAN programs serve women. The described
practices address recruitment and engagement of program participants,
lifestyle intervention delivery, facilitation and maintenance of behavior
change, and participant retention in the WISEWOMAN program. The toolkit
also lists strategies to assist WISEWOMAN projects in recruiting and
retaining local sites and in facilitating local site adoption of the
described practices.
The toolkit is
a compendium of best program practices identified through in-depth case
studies with selected WISEWOMAN projects. The methods used to identify best
practices are outlined in Chapter I. The toolkit is meant as a reference
guide from which projects and local sites can select practices that might be
useful in their states or tribal organizations. The writers recognize that
the practices included in this toolkit might not be effective in all
settings; therefore, the toolkit is not meant to dictate practices that all
projects should use.
Go to the Best Practices Toolkit.
Community Resource Guide
Community and neighborhood resources can make it
easier to turn new, healthy behaviors into lifelong habits. Using community
resources can also help people overcome the barriers to a healthy lifestyle.
Resources such as farmer's markets and produce stands can make it easier to
eat more fruits and vegetables; parks and trails can make it easier to walk
regularly.
To be able to use local resources, however,
community members first need to know that the resources exist. They also
need to be motivated to use the resources. By developing and using community
resource tools, WISEWOMAN programs and other community-based health
promotion programs can help program participants become more aware of
resources in their community and encourage them to regularly use such
resources.
This guide will help you create tailored community resource tools. The
tools highlight local resources to help participants eat healthier foods, be
more physically active, stop smoking, and learn how to advocate for changes
in their communities.
Download the Individual Tools
- Community Assessment: A questionnaire to help you understand
your eating and exercise habits and your goals to improve them.
(PDF– 47K)
- Tip Sheets: Tips on how to eat healthier, how to get more
exercise, and how to make your community safer. (PDF–76K )
Download the Community Resource Guide Templates
The guide is tailored to your community and pulls together key
information about how to tap into local resources.
Download the Tri-fold Brochures
The nutrition and physical activity brochures offer a condensed version
of the community resource tools in a single document.
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Page last reviewed: July 2, 2008
Page last modified: July 2, 2008
Content source: Division
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