The Right to Know: promoting breast cancer screening for women with physical disabilities

Keywords / Description:

The Right to Know health promotion campaign promotes early and regular breast cancer screening for women with physical disabilities.

This dissemination guide will help local health officials plan and organize their health promotion efforts for this campaign as well as implement, monitor, and track the plan. They can also view how other organizations used the promotion campaign effectively.

Free health promotion materials for this campaign can be ordered through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) here:

http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/disabilityandhealth/righttoknow/freematerials.html

Toolkit:

Chronic Disease Prevention Toolkit

Keyword Area:

Access to Care, Chronic Disease, Disability, Health Equity, Health Promotion and Health Education, Minority, Screening, Vulnerable Populations

Jurisdiction:

Institutional Author:

National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, CDC

Submitted:

07/29/2010

Modified:

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