Introduction: What is this program? And what can it do for me?
The A Su Salud En Acción Program
The A Su Salud En Acción program provides a nationally tested model for enabling communities to mount an effective campaign to reach specific segments of the public with tailored health promotion messages. The program grew out of studies on how to provide health information to large groups of people. The rationale for A Su Salud En Acción is anchored in several proven, comprehensive theories that describe how people learn new information and perform new skills. The model has been implemented and tested with a variety of different health risks, different ethnic groups and in a wide assortment of communities in the United States and other countries.
The National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP)
The NBCCEDP is a federally supported program (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services) that provides free or low-cost breast and cervical cancer screening services for low-income women. Through contracts with a wide variety of clinics, hospitals and other health care facilities, NBCCEDP operates across the United States. NBCCEDP funds supported the development of the A Su Salud En Acción Training Manual, and the goals and objectives of that program are the focus of our training guide.
What the Program Can Do for Your Community
The A Su Salud En Acción program has been redesigned to promote breast and cervical cancer screening awareness and the participation among low-income Hispanic/Latina women. We believe that by following the training process provided in the A Su Salud En Acción Training Manual and with modest technical support from trainers, your community will be able to conduct a successful breast and cervical cancer screening promotion campaign. This program will be able to increase, and perhaps even maximize, the NBCCEDP program support provided by the federal government to clinics and the citizens of your community.