May
The Women’s Heart Health Foundation
The Women’s Heart Foundation as well as their newly launched effort, Screen 4. Screen 4 is an innovative, grass-roots debate which encourages women to get screened for heart disease. Because 1 in 4 women dies of heart disease, the module is written to shade women in groups of 4.
Screen 4 is the giveaway module which began upon May 1st to happen at the same time with Mother’s Day as well as National Women’s Healthcare Month. Utilizing the “buddy” system, Screen 4 calls for women to accumulate in to teams to work together to fight as well as forestall heart disease. The module involves 3 easy steps: get together, get screened, as well as get starting with the devise to residence risk factors. Sister to Sister’s Screen 4 guides teams around easy collection upon the website.
Once the lady signs up online as well as recruits her team, the site helps them brand the place nearby their home where they can get screened. Following the screening, group members punch in their formula and, formed upon their numbers, have been supposing with the heart-health module they can simply exercise upon their own. Screen 4 participants will additionally have giveaway entrance to the online village as well as an e-newsletter array which will broach necessary report without delay to them.
As an inducement for debate participation, Sister to Sister will present the single giveaway screening for each group of 4 which signs up (up to 1,000), enabling which most some-more women to take carry out of their heart health. The screening personalizes the risk factors by on condition that women with 5 critical numbers:
- Blood glucose—because diabetes doubles the woman’s risk for heart conflict as well as stroke.
- cholesterol—because 1 in 4 women has tall cholesterol.
- Blood pressure—because 1 in 4 women has hypertension.
- BMI as well as waist circumference—because 1 in 4 women is obese.