To support your library’s health programming strategy, here are July health programing ideas – brought to you by The Pulse, part of the Gale Health and Wellness Resource Center. Keep looking for us on the first of each month to find resources for three months out.
Still working on spring? Check out April: National Donate Life Month, and May: American Stroke Month / National High Blood Pressure Education Month, June: National Men’s Health Month. Is your library focusing on National UV Safety Month this July? Check out our July 2012 library health programming ideas.
More than one in seven women ages 18 and over in the United States are only in fair or poor health, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The reasons are not difficult to guess: less than half of women get adequate exercise, about 36 percent of women 20 and older are considered obese, about 33 percent of women 20 and older have hypertension.
July is a month of long hours of daylight and many vacation-filled days–perhaps a good time for women to take a deep breath, reflect, read more, increase physical activity, and think about health. Celebrate women and put the spotlight on Women’s Health in your library this July with these free resources and with information from Gale Health and Wellness Resource Center:
- Quick and Easy: printable coloring pages for children and helpful print-ready information for adults.
- Featured Resources: books for children and their caregivers and links to reliable online information
- Book Club: adult book club ideas
- Tie In: ideas for library programs
- Community Resources: local agencies to contact
- Publicity Resources: free resources to help you publicize National Men’s Health Month at your library through social networking sites or traditional printed materials
- Fun Stuff: links to interactive websites and apps
Quick and Easy
Coloring Pages:
- Running Mom
- Super Mom
- Walking on Beach with Mom
- At the Park with Mom
- Mom Reading to Her Child
- Mother Daughter Campfire
Printables for Adults
- Violence Against Women flyer from womenshealth.gov
- Women Stay Healthy at Any Age checklist from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- My Family Health Potrait
- Prevention Checklist for Women from the American Cancer Society
Featured Resources
Books
Reliable Online Information for Adults:
- American Cancer Society
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
- Women’s Health
- Educational Materials
- FastStats: Women’s Health
- Girlfriends’ Health and Safety Tips
- Leading Causes of Death in Females
- What’s New in 2012
- Women’s Health Topics: A – Z
- Medline Plus: Women’s Health
- National Cancer Institute: Women’s Cancers
- National Institutes of Health: Women’s Health
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Quick Health Data Online
- girlshealth.gov
- Teen Survival Guide: Health Tips for On-the-go Girls
- womenshealth.gov
- Women and the Affordable Care Act
- WebMD: Women’s Health Center
Book Club
Pink Ribbon Blues: How Breast Cancer Culture Undermines Women’s Health by Gayle A. Sulik (Oxford University Press, 2011)
From the publisher: “Since its introduction in 1991, the pink ribbon and even the color pink itself have become a ubiquitous symbol for breast cancer awareness. Pink ribbon paraphernalia saturate shopping malls, billboards, magazines, television, and other entertainment venues. Thousands of everyday products have been produced in special pink ribbon editions, with some proceeds going to various awareness foundations. The pervasiveness of the pink ribbon campaign leads many people to believe that the fight against breast cancer is progressing, when in truth it’s barely begun.
Based on eight years of research, analysis of advertisements and breast cancer awareness campaigns, and hundreds of interviews with those affected by the disease, Pink Ribbon Blues highlights the hidden costs of the pink ribbon as an industry, one in which breast cancer has become merely a brand name with a pink logo. Indeed, while survivors and supporters walk, run, and purchase ribbons for a cure, cancer rates rise, the cancer industry thrives, corporations claim responsible citizenship while profiting from the disease, and breast cancer is stigmatized anew for those who reject the pink ribbon model. But Sulik also outlines alternative organizations that make a real difference, highlights what they do differently, and presents a new agenda for the future.”
- Excerpt
- Click to Look Inside
- Discussion Questions
- Author’s Website
- Author’s Facebook Page
- Author’s Twitter Feed
- Publisher Website
- Author Radio Interview
- Related Books
Community Resources
- National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCED) – Contact a Local Program
- Find your state’s American Heart Association advocacy contact.
- Find American Cancer Society events in your area
Publicity Resources
- National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program Web Badges
- womenshealth.gov poster in English and Spanish
- National Women’s Health Week (May 13-19, 2012) Resources that your library can adapt
- Tips for planning Health Events from the CDC
Fun Stuff
Add these interesting and helpful interactive links to your library’s website, Facebook page, or Twitter feed:
- Heart Attack in Women Quiz from womenshealth.gov
- What’s Your Sun Safety IQ? from the American Cancer Society
- Interactive Screening Tool for Women from the CDC
- Family Tree History from The Power to End Stroke / American Stroke Association
- Your Family’s Heart Health Starts with You – Heart Health Quiz and Family Vine tool from Welch’s
- Women’s Health-e-Cards from the CDC
- Women’s Health Podcasts from the CDC
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