Newsletter: Your Health Matters

Newsletter: Your Health Matters

Your Health Matters is a wellness publication of Samaritan Health Plans and InterCommunity Health Network CCO.


 

Current Issue: Spring 2013

  • Practice good hygiene to ward off germs
  • A simple guide to diabetes prevention 
  • Protect kids from diabetes with healthy habits
  • Good dental habits may help your heart
  • Coronary artery disease: Get the facts
  • Tips for weight management
  • Defining depression
  • Give your body a prebaby boost

Past Issues


Fall 2012

  • SAVE THIS ISSUE! Never forget something important again. Use our preventive care and immunization checklists to help keep your family’s health on track.
    • Recommended childhood immunization schedule
    • Recommended childhood preventive screenings
    • Recommended adult preventive screenings
    • Recommended adult immunization schedule
  • Migraines: Stop them before they start
  • What you need to know about dental care as you age
  • Help your children stay cavity-free
  • Is it time for a cholesterol check?
  • Coronary artery disease: Get the facts
  • Back to the basics: Explaining breast cancer
  • Managing COPD: you are in charge
  • Baby-proof your home
  • Classes, programs and support
  • Recipe for health: Blueberry coffee cake

 




Summer 2012


  • Diabetes myths and facts
  • Building a better salad
  • Strategies to help you soothe stress
    • Take back control of your troubled tummy
  • For back pain relief, try adding water!
  • Stay cool to beat heat illness
  • ‘Keep an eye’ on eye safety
  • Practice sun smarts
  • Fruits and vegetables: fresh, frozen or canned?
  • Focus on diabetes: A national health problem
    • Discover your risk for diabetes
    • Learn four myths and facts about diabetes
    • Watch out for prediabetes
  • Not just forgetfulness: It may be Alzheimer’s disease
  • Kids Page: Grow fruits and vegetables right in your yard!
    • Layered fruit salad
  • Parkinson’s disease: Staying physically active can help
  • Finding help and hope for incontinence
  • Classes, programs and support
  • Apple-carrot salad