Program Locations
SEARHC
 Background: Since 2000, SEARHC’s Community Health Services
Division has been funded as a standard project.
Lifestyle Iintervention: Health educators offer WISEWOMAN
participants risk reduction counseling at the time of screening plus an
opportunity to participate in a menu of intervention options. Women are
encouraged to attend a variety of nutrition, tobacco, and physical
activity interventions, based on their risk and motivation. Participants
are also linked to community-based activities through community-specific
resource guides.
Screening: Screening includes blood pressure, glucose, cholesterol
and other lipids testing as well as assessing weight, medical history,
tobacco use, poor diet, and physical inactivity.
Sites: SEARHC provides Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection
Program services and WISEWOMAN screening and lifestyle intervention
services in eleven communities throughout southeast Alaska.
Key Partners: Take Heart Alaska HDSP coalition, Tobacco Control and
Prevention, Steps To A Healthier Southeast Alaska, Diabetes Prevention
Program, and numerous community organizations and individuals.
| For more information about the SEARHC WISEWOMAN
program, contact: Nancy Knapp, MPH
WISEWOMAN Program Director
Phone: (907) 966–8746
E–mail: nancy.knapp@searhc.org
Check out SEARHC on the Internet at:
http://www.searhc.org/* |
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Page last reviewed: July 29, 2008
Page last modified: July 29, 2008
Content source: Division
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National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and
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