Bright Futures for Women's Health and Wellness Initiative

Program Overview

Vision Statement

To achieve physical, mental, social, and spiritual health, Bright Futures for Women's Health and Wellness identifies opportunities for integrating prevention into self-care, culturally competent health care, and community action.

Goals

1. Improve the health status and reduce health disparities for women across the lifespan.
   
   
2. Increase the use of preventive health services.
   
   
3. Integrate cultural and environmental factors in the knowledge and practice of preventive health behaviors.
   
   
4. Support women to share in preventive health decision-making with their health care providers and to sustain preventive health activities that promote personal, family, and community health.
   
   
5. Increase practitioner utilization of evidence-based preventive health guidelines
   
   
6. Build capacity for community preventive services, including increasing access to community resources for health promotion and elimination of barriers to preventive self-care.

Mission Statement

The mission of the Bright Futures for Women's Health and Wellness Initiative is to plan, develop, implement, and evaluate a variety of culturally competent consumer, provider, and community-based products to increase awareness and use of preventive health services for all women across their lifespan. The Health Resources and Services Administration is partnering with other Federal agencies, private organizations and professional associations, and consumer groups to ensure that BFWHW makes a unique contribution to the field of health promotion and disease prevention.

Objectives

1. Provide information to women on recommended preventive health services so that they seek care based on their individual needs and share in the decision-making about their health services.
   
   
2. Provide tools for practitioners to use in making all health care visits an opportunity to offer preventive care.
   
   
3. Provide materials for community organizations to use in promoting women's health.
   
   
4. Support health professions curricula for students and continuing education modules for practitioners on women's preventive health.
   
   
5. Stimulate a research and data collection agenda that recognize relevant differences across preventive health behavior and practice.

FINAL 5/21/02

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