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Breast Cancer Awareness

Pink madness began showing up in football fields across United States on Sunday night but it will surely soon be in full swing action. October is Breast cancer awareness Cancer Awareness Month and everything from food mixers to football jerseys are usually imprinted with the ubiquitous green ribbon, accompanied by promises coming from corporate sponsors that a percentage of your purchase.<br>http://www.mingleweave.com/breast-cancer-awareness/<br>

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Breast Cancer Awareness

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  1. Breast Cancer Awareness

  2. • Pink madness began showing up in football fields across United States on Sunday night but it will surely soon be in full swing action. October is Breast cancer awareness Cancer Awareness Month and everything from food mixers to football jerseys are usually imprinted with the ubiquitous green ribbon, accompanied by promises coming from corporate sponsors that a percentage of your purchase.

  3. Will be Donated to Breast Cancer Awareness or Cancer Research

  4. • Over and above the media attention, Canadian public policy, legislation, and human rights treaties guarantee access to health care even. Canada is a signatory into the Convention on the Rights connected with Persons with Disabilities and has now enacted the Canada Well being Act both of which crown health care as a basic suitable. • The new federal government has invested in using the social determinants connected with health as a framework to get developing new health insurance plan. The Public Health Agency connected with Canada sets prevention in addition to screening for breast cancer awareness(and all cancers) as a substantial priority.

  5. But Will Women of All Ages

  6. • With disabilities and hard of hearing women find the policies, expert services, awareness, funds and winners to ensure we are not overlooked of the picture when it comes to that critical health issue for all women of all ages? • Research has shown women having disabilities and deaf women of all ages face multiple barriers to help accessing health care, including cancer treatment and screening. • For instance, they are less likely than women of all ages without disabilities to receive pelvic and mammogram exams consistently and are thus at a and the higher for delayed diagnosis of busts and cervical cancer. The good reasons for this are due to both physical and systemic barriers. Physical barriers tend to be more visible, such as mammogram machines that demand we own standing or specific ranking, or inaccessible exam workstations.

  7. • Systemic barriers are less noticeable, but can include communications and attitudinal barriers. For example, facts is often unavailable in change formats such as American Warning Language (ASL) and Expression des (LSQ) video. As well, there are not any qualified ASL interpreters for individuals who • Who are deaf, hard or deafened of hearing and no communication supports for women who are nonverbal. • In some full cases, health care practitioners focus on the disability itself as an ongoing health problem, and ignore the overall wellness of the patient. As a total result, ladies with disabilities and hard of hearing women are not encouraged to have screened.

  8. • The Disabled Ladies Network (DAWN) Canada includes a range of resources on cancer of the Breast Cancer Awareness and disability that can be used to boost understanding of the health care requires of women with disabilities in addition to Deaf women, and to improve access to breast cancer awareness cancer treatment and prevention for all women. • Even so the responsibility for accessible health- related cannot rest with a sole organization. Rather, it must be taken up — by policy makers collectively, health-related practitioners, media and researchers champions. With understanding, we can all take liability for ensuring that all women of all ages are ?in the lilac, ? including women with Deaf and disabilities women.

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