Women today face many demands and challenges. It is important to create a healthy balance in your life. Knowing your health risks and what you can do to protect your health are the first steps. Having routine health tests will help you live a longer, healthier life.
The Care for Yourself Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (IA BCCEDP) services are part of a national program that helps reduce deaths from these two diseases. To reduce your risk, you must have regular screening tests. If the Care for Yourself BCCEDP is right for you, local staff can help you schedule: clinical breast exams, mammograms, pelvic exams, and Pap tests. If the tests you receive through the Care for Yourself BCCEDP show you have breast or cervical cancer, local staff will help you find treatment.
Care for Yourself Program Well-Integrated Screening and Evaluation for Women Across the Nation (WISEWOMAN) services are part of a national program that helps reduce deaths and disability from heart disease and stroke. To reduce your risk, you must have regular screening tests. If the Care for Yourself WISEWOMAN Program is right for you, local staff can help you schedule: Height and weight measurements, blood pressure, cholesterol, and glucose tests, to check your heart disease risk. You can also receive education and encouragement for making small health changes that lower your heart disease risk.
Is the Care for Yourself program right for you?
° Are you over age 40 and under age 65?
° Do you make the amount of money listed for the number of people in your family in "Eligibility/Enrollment?"
° Do you have no health insurance?
° Do you have insurance that does not cover these services?
° Are you unable to pay insurance deductibles or co-payments?
° Do you not have Medicare Part B coverage?
This April 10th webinar is presented by Jody Gatewood, MS, RD, LD, Nutrition and Health Program Specialist with Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, Extension to Families. The webinar provides tips and excellent resources for a healthy lifestyle, including: Jody’s newsletter “Words of Wellness”, how to find an Iowa State University Extension Specialist for local resources specific to your area, tips and suggestions about printed material resources related to eating healthier nutritious low-cost meals and ideas about incorporating physical activities within your local area. All of these tips, ideas, and resources can be used for participants of the Care for Yourself healthy lifestyle intervention sessions or for improving your own health and lifestyle.
Offered in conjunction with the Iowa Care for Yourself (CFY) Program related to the Healthy Lifestyle Intervention.
This webinar is presented by Sarah Taylor Watts, Physical Activity Coordinator and Tami Larson, Community Health Consultant; Iowa Department of Public Health, Division of Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention, Bureau of Nutrition and Health Promotion. Sarah works with Iowans Fit for Life program and Tami works with the I-WALK project an Iowa safe routes to school initiative. The webinar provides information to increase awareness of community-based physical activity and Iowa's safe routes to school project that offer ideas about how to improve physical activities in your community. These ideas include: Ideas about ways to help promote legislative initiatives to improve their living/working environment toward a healthier place to improve physical activity; and linking CFY participants to get involved in walking/biking to help their children and/or grandchildren with safe routes to school.
NOTE: Care for Yourself is a cardiovascular screening program for uninsured or underinsured, women ages 40-64, integrated with the Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program across Iowa. This educational learning offering was made possible by cooperative agreement U58 DP001382-04 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention /WISEWOMAN Program.
For more information, contact your local Care for Yourself, program or call (800) 369-2229 or (800) 735-2942 (V/TTY).
You may also use the "Contact Us" page to submit questions online or write to us at:
Iowa Care for Yourself Program
Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection/WISEWOMAN
Iowa Department of Public Health
Lucas State Office Building
321 East 12th Street
Des Moines, IA 50319-0075
