Examining and promoting women's health through a descriptive analysis of a novel health tool: the 'Circle of Health'.
Women Health
; 63(8): 648-657, 2023 09 14.
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ABSTRACT
A comprehensive perspective of women's health increases healthy equity and broadens the spectrum of care for women. The Circle of Health, a holistic health assessment tool, was created by the National Centers of Excellence in Women's Health (NCEWH). This initiative focuses on advancing women's health needs by empowering them to actively engage about their own health care. The tool includes surveys for seven distinct domains of health physical, social, emotional, intellectual, environmental, financial, and spiritual. The present study reports comprehensive health findings for a sample of 169 females from Region VIII with data collected from February 2014 to April 2019. The Circle of Health tool highlights distinct health needs across the seven domains. For the present sample of mostly female college students, areas of concern included the emotional, financial, and environmental health domains. Further research is needed to examine the holistic health of women from diverse cultural, racial, age, and socioeconomic backgrounds. The Circle of Health tool describes health, for both women and their health providers, more holistically and encourages an integrative model of care.
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Equidade em Saúde
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Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
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Female
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Humans
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En
Ano de publicação:
2023
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Article