The Primary Health & Community Partnerships branch of NSW Health worked with women with disabilities and professionals to produce Being a Healthy Woman, a book for women with disabilities covering a wide range of health topics, in plain English.
This is a book to help women with intellectual disability learn more about their health. It also provides a list of resources on disability for women with intellectual disability, their family members, carers or health care professionals. It can be used as a teaching tool to help women with intellectual disability learn about their health.
You can download a single file (5.3 Mb) of the entire book here.
It has also has been split into 18 small files to accommodate slow download capabilities. Chapter/file titles:
• Acknowledgements and Contents
• ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT YOU
• BEING HEALTHY AND HAPPY
• HEALTHY EATING
• FEELING SAD AND FEELING HAPPY
• PUBERTY
• HAVING YOUR PERIODS
• GROWING UP
• CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS AND SEX
• SAFER SEX
• DECIDING TO BECOME A PARENT
• BEING PREGNANT
• HAVING A PAP TEST
• BREAST HEALTH
• MENOPAUSE
• GETTING OLDER
• GRIEF AND LOSS
• OTHER HELPFUL RESOURCES
This page lists the individual chapter files.
Source: CID e-news – June/July 2010
This is a book to help women with intellectual disability learn more about their health. It also provides a list of resources on disability for women with intellectual disability, their family members, carers or health care professionals. It can be used as a teaching tool to help women with intellectual disability learn about their health.
You can download a single file (5.3 Mb) of the entire book here.
It has also has been split into 18 small files to accommodate slow download capabilities. Chapter/file titles:
• Acknowledgements and Contents
• ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT YOU
• BEING HEALTHY AND HAPPY
• HEALTHY EATING
• FEELING SAD AND FEELING HAPPY
• PUBERTY
• HAVING YOUR PERIODS
• GROWING UP
• CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS AND SEX
• SAFER SEX
• DECIDING TO BECOME A PARENT
• BEING PREGNANT
• HAVING A PAP TEST
• BREAST HEALTH
• MENOPAUSE
• GETTING OLDER
• GRIEF AND LOSS
• OTHER HELPFUL RESOURCES
This page lists the individual chapter files.
Source: CID e-news – June/July 2010
Other resources on health for people with intellectual disabilities:
Health fact sheets from NSW CID
DSA UK's Looking after yourself
Library resources:
Books beyond words series which include:
Food, fun, healthy and safe
George gets smart (about personal hygiene)
Looking after my breasts (preparing for a mammogram)
Keeping healthy down below (preparing for a pap smear)
Looking after my balls
Falling in love
Special Girls' Business
Secret Girls' Business
Puberty and Special Girls
If you'd like to borrow any of the library resources or anything else, just email us or call.
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