Episode 6: Let's Be More Positive About Black Women's Health

Lake Health and Wellbeing

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Today’s episode is inspired by the Black Women’s Health Imperative’s IndexUS report which looked at what healthy black women can teach us about black women’s health.

The Black Women’s Health Imperative‘s report is the first comparative index on black women’s health based on healthy black women. It provides:

Practical tips to help black women improve their health
Recommendations for political and civic leaders on how to improve the health of black women
An explanation as to why the health of black women is important.

This report was birthed out of the BWHI’s desire to change the negative narrative on black women’s health based on data from the Black Women’s Health Study which showed, yes, there are challenges when it comes to the health of black women, but actually there is much to celebrate.

In this episode we talk about how happy we were to read this report, summarise some of the findings and stress the importance of the need to be more positive about black women’s health.

You can download the BWHI’s report here

We hope you enjoy this week’s episode and tell us what you think in the comments section below.

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Podcast Music:

“Bossa Antigua” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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