Free Health Screenings & Healthy Lifestyle Tips
August 28, 2009
As the health care debate rages across the country, one of the things that’s often overlooked is how much money we could save with better preventative medicine. It’s often much cheaper to invest time and money up front to help prevent, delay, or minimize expensive medical conditions, yet our insurance system is setup with the mindset of covering treatments and procedures rather than prevention.
Here are some resources you can use to screen for and help prevent some of these medical conditions, especially if they run in your family. I also included some healthy lifestyle tips for men and women at different stages of thier lives:
Family Health History
Health Screenings & Tests
- Screening & Immunization Guidelines for Men
- Screening & Immunization Guidelines for Women
- Depression Screening Test
- FAQ about HIV & HIV Testing
- Prostate Cancer Screening
- Screening & Testing to Detect Cancer
- Breast Self-exam
- Cervical Cancer Screening
- Colorectal Cancer Screening
- American Cancer Society Guidelines
- Screenings & Mammograms
Disease Prevention
- ABCs of Heart Disease Prevention
- Healthy Weight Tips
- Childhood Obestiy
- Diabetes – Causes and Prevention
- Lower Heart Disease Risk
Guides to Healthy Living
- Men: Stay Hhealthy at Any Age
- Women: Stay Healthy at Any Age
- Pocket Guide to Good Health for Adults
- Pocket Guide to Good Health for Children
- Pocket Guide to Staying Healthy over 50
- Teenager’s Guide to Better Health
Hopefully you found some of those resources useful. Have a healthy weekend!
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