BETTER START EARLY - BREAST SELF EXAM PROGRAM - HIGH SCHOOL WOMEN (go back)

This program seeks to raise breast cancer awareness in young high school women while creating a positive attitude toward breast self-exam. Topics covered include breast health, breast self-exam, mammography, and breast cancer. Students will learn how lifestyle choices and early detection both influence the incidence and survivability of breast cancer. We cover risk factors including age, family history and genetic factors as well as lifestyle choices – alcohol/tobacco use, high-fat diet, obesity, exercise, and breast feeding.

Supports State Goals:
•  22.A.3b Identify how positive health practices and relevant health care can help reduce health risk;
•  22.A.4b Analyze possible outcomes of effective health promotion and illness prevention;
•  22.B.5 Analyze how public health policies, laws and the media function to prevent and control illness;
•  23.B.4 Explain immediate and long-term effects of health habits on the body systems;
•  23.B.5 Understand the effects of healthy living on individuals and their future generations;
•  24.B.4 Explain how decision making affects the achievement of individual health goals;
•  24.B.5 Explain immediate and long-term impacts of health decisions to the individual, family and community; and
•  23.A.4 Explain how body system functions can be maintained and improved.

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