Office of Outreach and Health Disparities - Educational Materials
A Patchwork of Life: One Woman's Story
A Patchwork of Life: One Woman's Story is a computer-based patient decision aid that assists women diagnosed with early stage breast cancer in making informed decisions about their surgical treatment options (breast conserving surgery with radiation or mastectomy).
To add the Patchwork of Life widget (located above) to your own web site, click "Get Widget" and copy the code that is provided. Then, just paste that code into the code of your web page.
Exciting News! The Office of Outreach and Health Disparities has been recognized with a Silver award from the World Wide Web Health Awards for "A Patchwork of Life," the on-line education program for women making breast cancer treatment decisions.
Retratos de la Vida Real
Retratos de la Vida Real is a culturally sensitive and linguistically appropriate multimedia program on breast cancer screening aimed at Spanish-speaking women over 20 years of age who have limited reading capabilities. While viewing the program, women learn about the recommended screening guidelines for the early detection of breast cancer.
Viewers may calculate their personal risk of developing invasive breast cancer utilizing an adapted version of the National Cancer Institute’s Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool. Visit the web site: www.bcm.edu/retratos or click on the picture.
Vivir Mejor
Vivir Mejor is a bilingual brochure that informs men and women about cancer screening. It includes information about screening exams for the early detection of breast, cervical, colon, prostate, and skin cancers that are appropriate at different times throughout the life cycle. The brochure is targeted to Hispanic audiences, although the information may be suitable for other audiences.
Vivir Mejor features a quick reference, Handy Screening Guide page. To download the brochure, click on the picture to the right.
Cancer Screening Wheel
The Cancer Screening Wheel is a colorful, innovative way for people to learn about the various tests available to detect the most common cancers. It consists of screening guidelines indicating when and how often someone should be tested. The wheel provides information about which tests are appropriate for adult men and women. For more information or to get copies of the wheel, contact us at aperales@bcm.edu. Click on the link to view a larger image of the screening wheel.
Exciting News! The Office of Outreach and Health Disparities at the Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center has been recognized with a 2010 Gold award from the National Health Information Resource Center for their bilingual cancer screening wheel in the Health Promotion/Disease and Injury Prevention Information category.
"Germie the Unhealthy Car" Activities for Teachers and Students
To increase awareness about the primary prevention of cancer among school-aged children, the Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine collaborated with the Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine and the Health Museum to create a fun and engaging cancer prevention activity sheet targeted to elementary school children, accompanied by easy-to-use lesson plans for teachers, called "Germie the Unhealthy Car."
The activities stress eating fruits and vegetables, physical activity, and maintaining a healthy body weight. The Houston Independent School District distributed the sheet to 55,000 elementary school students and 10,000 more sheets were distributed along the Art Car Parade route, at the Texas Children's Hospital, and at the Health Museum. Printable versions of the activity sheet and lesson plans are available now.
Download a copy of the "Germie the Unhealthy Car "activity packet.
Three lesson plans for the Art Car Activity Sheet
Primary Subject: Health and Physical Education
Grade level: adaptable for K-5
Contents
What does it mean to be healthy: A healthy habits discussion guide
Muscle Madness: Active classroom games
Have a Rainbow for Dinner: Nutrition-focused drawing activity
Toni "You Are What You Eat" bookmarks
The Salad Lady’s green costume and electric green hair draw children to the cart, where they can talk to her as she walks around the cart, distributing colorful keepsake bookmarks with targeted nutrition tips. The bookmarks are available in four different designs, in English or Spanish. View English version. View Spanish version.
Learn more about the art car organization.
If you used Germie the Art Car Activity Sheet and the accompanying lesson plans, please go to the following link to let us know what you thought of the materials. Your input will be very helpful to us for developing other similar activities.
Complete the Germie the Art Car Activity Sheet survey.