Pamphlets by Journeyworks. Heart Health pamphlets: 10 Ways to a Healthier Heart; 30 Things Everyone Should Know About High Blood Pressure; 10 Ways to Prevent and Control High Blood Pressure; 8 Ways to Improve Your Cholesterol; 30 Things Everyone Should Know About Cholesterol; Women and Heart Disease: What You Should Know. Anti-Tobacco and Drug Prevention pamphlets: How Tobacco Affects Your Teeth, Gums, and Mouth; How Quitting Smoking Helps Your Heart; 45 Scary But True Facts About Meth; How Meth Affects Your Brain [horizontal ellipsis] And the Rest of Your Body; & Preventing Drug Use: Ten Tips for Parents and Other Adults. Headaches, Back Pain, and Skin Cancer pamphlets: Headache Facts: What Everyone Should Know; Watch Your Back: Tips to Prevent Pain; 30 Things You Should Know About Your Back; Protecting Your Skin From the Sun; & 33 Things Everyone Should Know About Skin Cancer. Santa Cruz, CA: Journeyworks Publishing. Prices start at $18 for 50 pamphlets.
Journeyworks Publishing, a respected national leader in the publication of health education and promotional materials, has produced 16 new titles that offer a combination of originality, straightforwardness, and exhibit multicultural awareness. The 3 sets of pamphlets deal with different topics (heart health; antitobacco and drug prevention; and headaches, back pain, and skin cancer) that are both relevant and essential for improving or continuing one's good health and well-being. Each set of pamphlets, which are printed on recycled paper, displays information in a colorful and organized manner that makes it not only easy to read but also aesthetically pleasing. Diversity is also clearly present in the categories of race, ethnicity, age, and subject matter.
The first set of pamphlets enlightens and encourages readers to be proactive about their heart health in order to lead longer and more active lives. Different aspects of heart health are also addressed such as hypertension with 10 Ways to Prevent and Control High Blood Pressure and 30 Things Everyone Should Know About High Blood Pressure. Information is also provided on improving and managing one's cholesterol with 30 Things Everyone Should Know About Cholesterol and 8 Ways to Improve Your Cholesterol. To address the fact that heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in the United States, a pamphlet specifically for women was produced: Women and Heart Disease: What You Should Know. The final pamphlet in this set, 10 Ways To A Healthier Heart, gives a great overview of preventative measures that readers can take such as quitting smoking, healthier eating, and being physically active just to name a few.
The second set of pamphlets is designed to impart anti-tobacco and drug use prevention messages. These pamphlets present illuminating facts and figures, useful recommendations, and depict pertinent illustrations to help engage anyone from adolescence to adulthood. In How Quitting Smoking Helps Your Heart, the reader is made aware that smoking is one of the biggest risk factors for heart disease. In How Tobacco Affects Your Teeth, Gums, and Mouth, the reader is told about the realities of bad breath, gum disease, and oral cancer due to tobacco use. The dangers and pitfalls of methamphetamine abuse are chronicled in 45 Scary But True Facts About Meth and How Meth Affects Your Brain[horizontal ellipsis]and the Rest of Your Body. In the way of drug prevention, Preventing Drug Use: 10 Tips for Parents and Other Adults gives straightforward advice on how adults can clearly and honestly talk about the risks of drugs to young people.
The all-too-common medical conditions of headaches, back pain, and skin cancer are addressed in the final set of pamphlets. Almost everyone has suffered from headaches at some time. In Headache Facts: What Everyone Should Know, the reader is educated on the different types of headaches and what measures can be done to avert or treat them. Just as headaches affect almost everyone, back pain is a condition that many will encounter. Watch Your Back: Tips to Prevent Pain and 30 Things You Should Know About Your Back give useful tips on protecting your back and preventing back pain. Yet another part of the body that people should protect is the skin. Sunburn and skin cancer are but 2 ills that can be caused by too much sun. For reducing the risk of skin cancer and protecting your skin, 33 Things Everyone Should Know About Skin Cancer and Protecting Your Skin from the Sun are 2 excellent resources presented in an easy-to-read format.
These sets of pamphlets are exceptional because they are reader friendly and provide a great layout of the causes, risk factors, and preventative measures that are associated with the above-mentioned topics. For a complimentary review copy or to order additional pamphlets from Journeyworks Publishing, call toll-free 1-800-775-1998 or visit http://www.journeyworks.com.
Kedrick B. Perry
Curry School of Education University of Virginia