Women's Health Issues

"Young at Heart" - Why Should YoungWomen Care About Their Hearts?

Goal:
Familiarize yourself with heart disease and risk factors
Learn about significance of heart disease in women
Learn about differences in symptoms of heart disease in men and women
Create an educational tool for a specific audience
Convince women that they should care about their hearts even from an early age

Note that the term ‘cardiovascular diseases' refers to several types of disease. The two main categories of CVD are heart disease and stroke. We will focus on heart disease in this project. Some Internet sites and the nature of the creative project are listed below.

• What is meant by ‘heart disease'?
• What are the ‘risk factors' for heart disease? List them.
• What is the significance of heart disease in terms of:
o Causes of death in men and women (search listed sites)
o Causes of disease/death in women of different races/ethnicity (search listed sites)
• At what ages are women most susceptible to death from heart disease?
• Why do women fear breast cancer more than they fear heart disease?
• What is the ‘red dress' campaign? (do search - link included)
• Why do heart attacks occur?
• What are the classic signs/symptoms of a heart attack? Are these signs/symptoms the same for men and women? What is different?

"Young at Heart" Project Description: Use reliable sources (some are included here)
Total points - 100 points; one final edited version only so make it great!

Design and create an educational program targeting a specific group of young women. Convince these women that they should care about their hearts throughout all life stages, even at young ages.

Targets: Target specific groups of women (eg, teenage daughters, college-age women, specific racial/ethnic groups, etc. - you can put your own combinations together if you wish; eg, young African-American women).

Be creative in your approach. You can design an educational program (‘a package', a pamphlet, a newsletter, a power point, etc.) You may use graphics, cartoons, poems, narratives, surveys, You Tubes, etc. as part of your program. You may use several complementary educational components. This is YOUR opportunity to be totally creative and colorful.

Give your project an interesting title (you may use "Young at Heart" or "Heartcare" - but feel free to create your own title.