Health Promotion
 The World Health organization defines Health Promotion as a process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve their health.
This view of health promotion places the responsibility of health on the individual. In order to make health decisions, people must have up-to-date information. The Arkansas Disability and Health Program addresses the need of health promotion information for people with disabilities on a variety of issues.
Breast Care Awareness
Women with disabilities are typically not the target of breast care information campaigns, so ADHP will be working with the CDC to implement an awareness campaign that targets women with disabilities. We will be working with Arkansas BreastCare
to identify and advertise accessible mammography
sites, train healthcare professionals on the unique
needs and concerns of women with disabilities, and
offer information on adaptive methods of self breast
examinations. For more information on our breast
care awareness campaign, click
here.
Emergency Preparedness
Typically, emergency preparedness and response systems are designed for persons without disabilities. People with disabilities are at greater risk of injury or death in the event of an emergency because of lack of planning and response accommodations. To learn more about what ADHP and done in the area of Emergency Preparedness, click here.
Health Education
We will be working with several of the Independent Living Centers around the state (Mainstream, Delta Resource Center, and Spa Area Independent Living Services to offer two separate health education opportunities.
- Living Well with a Disability is an 8 week workshop using goal setting and problem solving as the framework for managing and preventing secondary conditions such as urinary tract infections, depression, high blood pressure, and pressure sores just to name a few . Sessions include developing tools and skills for healthy living, healthy reactions, communication, managing depression, how to find out information, physical activity, nutrition, and advocacy. This curriculum was developed by Montana’s Disability and Health Program.
Stanford Chronic Disease Self Management was designed by the School of Medicine at Stanford University to help people with chronic disease such as arthritis, diabetes, asthma, and cardiovascular disease. It consists of 6 sessions, each session lasting 2 ½ hours focusing on dealing with frustration, fatigue, pain and isolation, appropriate exercises for maintaining and improving strength, flexibility and endurance, medications, communication, and nutrition.
Trainings will be offered in Little Rock, Pine Bluff and Hot Springs. Watch this site for
the schedule of these trainings and registration information.
Health Promotion Campaign
There are few health promotion campaign that include people with disabilities.
Arkansas Disability & Health Program developed a
Tips for Including People with Disabilites in Health
Promotion Campaigns. In collaboration with Arkansas Can Do, Inc., ADHP developed a campaign to promote positive, healthy images of people with disabilities. To learn more about the Health Promotion Campaign click here.
Safety Awareness & Abuse Prevention
While data regarding the magnitude of violence in the lives of people with disabilities is limited, published information indicates that this is a major health concern. We have been working with Developmental Disability Providers around Arkansas to modify existing Safety Awareness and Abuse Prevention training to meet the needs of women with disabilities. Click here to learn more about our efforts.
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