Health Education

Provides information on how different types of exercise, like weight-bearing and muscle-strengthening activities may help build stronger bones. It also provides tips for a safer workout and instruction to talk to a healthcare provider before beginning an exercise program.
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Provides information on how smoking and excessive alcohol consumption can affect your bone health. This resource provides credible support group information for both alcohol and smoking cessation programs.
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Provides information on how broken bones may be the first sign of osteoporosis. It identifies the three most common skeletal sites where fractures may occur – spine, wrist, and hip – and a fracture risk assessment tool for the patient to share with their healthcare provider.
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Helps patients understand what bone health is and how osteoporosis may develop over time. It includes a bone health self-assessment tool to help in identifying those who might be at risk for developing osteoporosis and encourages patients to have conversations with their healthcare provider.
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Helps patients identify depression management and goals. This resource explains talk therapy and medication therapy. It also includes a medicine tracker to help patients stay on track.
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Helps patients reach their treatment goals. This resource identifies how making positive lifestyle adjustments may help patients improve their depression. It also provides a checklist to help patients get started.
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Discusses possible causes of depression such as hormones, family history, and life events. This resource provides a list of common symptoms of depression and a worksheet for patients to create a care plan with their healthcare provider.
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Covers how depression affects men differently than women, from the unique signs and symptoms to the ways they cope. This resource highlights how men can help manage their depression and provides a progress tracker.
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Provides a list of questions and topics for patients to consider before visiting their healthcare provider. It is designed for patients to take with them to medical visits to help make the most of their time with the provider.
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Discusses the different ways depression may present itself in women across their lifespan, including premenstrual syndrome, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, postpartum depression, and menopause. It also addresses the prevalence of depression in women and offers ways women can help manage their depression.
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Walks through managing challenges and the importance of continuing with treatment. It includes a checklist to help patients identify signs and triggers that may lead to recurrence.
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Checking your eyes with regular exams
Explains what patients should expect during a comprehensive eye exam. This resource also provides a step-by-step worksheet to help patients schedule their eye exams.
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Helping care for your eyes
Includes information about the most common eye diseases linked to diabetes and how having a comprehensive eye exam at least once a year may help patients protect their eyesight.
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Help prevent foot problems before they start
Explains ways patients may help prevent foot problems before they start. Includes a foot sensation test kit that contains a single-use monofilament, a self-testing card, and instructions for use.
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Caring for your heart while managing diabetes
Explains ways patients can care for their heart while managing diabetes. This resource goes through the ABCs of diabetes—A1C, blood pressure, and cholesterol—and gives patients an opportunity to track their ABC numbers.

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Taking care of your heart-Hispanic/Latin Americans
Helps patients understand that they may reduce their risk for heart disease by managing their blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol. Includes tips for lifestyle changes that may help. There are also some culturally sensitive food options for Hispanic and Latino Americans.
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Tests for kidney health
Explains how diabetes may affect a patient’s kidneys and walks through tests that a healthcare provider may recommend to check kidney health.
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Living with diabetes as an older adult
Explains ways older patients can manage their diabetes. This resource goes through the signs of low blood sugar, health problems that may be related to diabetes in the older adult, and some elements of a self-care plan.
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Diabetes and your blood sugar
Emphasizes the importance of monitoring blood sugar as part of diabetes management. It aims to help patients understand their blood sugar goals, and how to use that information in self-management. It gives some tips on managing hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia. It also has an A1c to eAG conversion sticker.
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Questions to Ask Your Health Care Provider
Helps both the patient and healthcare provider make the most of their time together, and offers questions and topics for a patient to discuss and check off during the next interaction with his or her healthcare provider.
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What you need to know about gestational diabetes
Explains how diabetes during pregnancy can cause problems for the patient and baby. This resource provides information on how gestational diabetes is diagnosed and managed.
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What you need to know about prediabetes
Explains what it means to have prediabetes and how it may be managed. This guide describes the signs of prediabetes, and how patients can reduce their risk of developing type 2 prediabetes later.
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Explains what blood pressure is and why maintaining a healthy blood pressure is important to patients’ health. This resource provides ways to help manage blood pressure through nutrition, physical activity, smoking cessation, and stress release.
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Explains the different types of cholesterol and how high cholesterol can impact patients’ health. This resource discusses lifestyle changes that patients can make to help manage cholesterol levels and provides an action plan for them to track a lifestyle change they choose.
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Helps patients manage or reduce stress by identifying the source and providing tips to help manage the stress. This resource encourages patients to manage stress by choosing healthy activities that suit their individual personality.
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Provides disease state information on migraine including potential causes, symptoms associated with a migraine attack, and the phases of migraine. The patient will learn about triggers of a migraine attack as well as potential ways to help relieve symptoms after a migraine attack has started (acute management) or things that may help reduce the number of migraine attacks (preventive management). Patients are encouraged to keep a migraine journal. A checklist of items to consider for journaling is provided. They are encouraged to share this information with their healthcare provider. Tips on talking about migraine with friends, family, and coworkers are included. A direct link to an informative video about migraine is provided via a QR Code on the brochure's back cover.
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Provides practical tips to help patients make healthy eating choices at home and in restaurants. It provides detailed information on how to read food nutrition labels, including portion size and nutrients.
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Follows ChooseMyPlate.gov recommendations and provides patients with examples of healthy choices from different food groups, as well as sample meals for a healthier breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
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Helps patients identify their daily caloric needs and demonstrates how to make wise food choices in different situations. It also provides tips for patients to keep in mind when choosing what foods to eat.
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Provides nutrition facts on menu items offered by many of the most popular national fast food and casual dining chains. Restaurants are listed in alphabetical order, and guides to nutrition facts about each menu item are included.
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Describes rheumatoid arthritis (RA), its symptoms, possible triggers for flares, and how it may be managed through treatment and lifestyle changes. It may help answer questions for those newly diagnosed, including how to set goals for the treatment of RA.
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Provides support to caregivers around their own personal health. It provides a caregiver burnout assessment tool to complete and share with their healthcare provider. It also gives tips on how to lower stress Perf Score and fold and manage caregiver burnout.
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Helps prepare patients in any type of healthcare setting when they are transitioning to their next level of care. This resource may be used with any healthcare provider before and during a patient’s stay to help them or their Score and fold Score and fold caregiver be prepared.
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Helps patients manage their own health care by organizing important personal information—allergies, chronic conditions and major illnesses, family history, hospital visits and surgeries, laboratory tests, screenings, vaccinations, and current and past medications—in one single resource.
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Identifies steps that can help patients take their medication correctly and safely. It provides tips for patients to consider at home, the doctor’s office, the pharmacy, or in a hospital or nursing home.
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Helps patients identify healthy food choices, manage side effects, and develop a food plan that can help the patient feel better and stay stronger while going through the cancer journey.
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Helps patients understand the causes of cancer-related fatigue, track their high energy and low energy tasks, and learn lifestyle tips that may help the patient feel better and manage their fatigue.
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Shows patients that being active is anything that gets them up and moving. This resource provides recommendations about how to be active indoors and outdoors and includes a sample walking plan.
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Highlights the importance and possible benefits of regular exercise. It provides tips and a step-by-step approach to incorporating exercise into a daily routine.
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Provides ideas for healthy ways to help manage life with psoriasis. It shares with readers that stress is a common factor in psoriasis flares and that psoriasis may increase one’s risk for depression. This guide also shares tips for keeping close relationships going strong and talking to employers about psoriasis.
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Defines flares, itch, and triggers and provides practical tips to help prevent flares and manage the itch. In this resource, the patient may learn about common triggers of psoriasis flares and tips to manage them.
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Facilitates discussion with one’s healthcare professional about symptoms of psoriasis and its impact on one’s life. It describes the role of the dermatologist in the management of psoriasis and allows patients to list symptoms, questions, and possible triggers of a psoriasis flare.
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Informs patients that the inflammation that causes psoriasis could affect other parts of the body beyond the skin, such as the heart, liver, intestines, and blood vessels. It encourages routine testing and a treatment plan for these other conditions.
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Helps patients understand psoriasis—what causes it, who gets it, how it impacts life, and what treatment options are available. It includes tracking tools to monitor changes of psoriasis plaques and identify triggers of flares.
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