Product Description

Packed full of resources, charts, graphs, forms and articles, this health journal will become your long-term companion in keeping track of medical and health-related information. An invaluable resource for physician, caregivers, and especially disability attorney.

Includes an address book, forms to track lab tests, surgery, pain scales, disability information and more.

Each page includes inspirational quotes or scriptures.

Comes with a CD-Rom of over 250 health organizations that offer advocacy assistance and other information.

Every woman should have one, healthy or not- it's time to take care of ourselves.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5010623 in Books
• Published on: 2002-01-02
• Binding: Ring-bound
• 216 pages

Review
A tremendous aid for people newly diagnosed, or someone who has lived with illness long-term --and their families. -- Kathleen Lewis, Author of Celebrate Life!

For a disability lawyer, it’s a dream. Women will come prepared and confident to all health-related conversations. -- Douglas M. Smith, Attorney at Law

Takes into consideration the whole person, body, mind and spirit! In the maze of healthcare, it empowers women to advocate! -- Rev. Donna B. Coffman, R.N., Executive Director, Caring Congregations

About the Author
Designed by Lisa Copen, the founder of Rest Ministries for people who live with chronic illness or pain. Diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis at age 24, Copen quickly found that organizing her health information would become a challenging task, yet one that she needed to begin immediately.

Copen is also author of So You Want to Start a Chronic Illness/Pain Ministry, and Bible studies on chronic illness, including Learning to Live with Chronic Illness.

Customer Reviews

Makes it Easy to Get Organize & be Your Own Health Advocate
Women will find many helpful ideas, reminders and tips to help them maximize their well-being in A Woman's Health Resource Journal, edited by Lisa Copen. The journal provides a well organized plan for documenting health information that might be needed for a physicians visits, including some more unusual items such as a family tree of health history.

Practical and useful information is included on such important health topics as selecting a specialist, seeing your medical records, when to look for a new doctor and questions to ask about health insurance. These practical areas of information provide valuable information to help each woman become her own advocate and an informed consumer.

I was particularly impressed with the section on pain that provided a vocabulary and questions to help communicate one's experience of pain with a health care provider. This gives voice to the range of experiences of pain that could help to facilitate appropriate treatment. I also appreciated the section emphasizing the importance of throwing out old medications, which is an often neglected potential health hazard.

While the journal is intended for all women, it's original creation for women with disabilities is evident in both the content and the ordering of topics. For example, disability information and information on preparing for surgery precedes lifestyle information, which is the last section of the journal. A Women's Health Resource Journal raises the questions that all women, but particularly women with disabilities, should be aware of in caring for themselves and taking responsibility for their own health. In a time when self care and being an informed health care consumer is so important to health, this journal provides a valuable resource.

Mary Chase-Ziolek, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor of Health Ministries, North Park Theological Seminary
Chicago, IL

reviewed by a person with diabetes
Book is a wonderful resouce for keeping track of the medications you are on, what doctor prescribed your medication, changing medications and allergies.

Diabetes is an ongoing disease. This way I can keep track of my blook sugar levels and know what to take to the doctor.

But best of all, it has a Christian perspective to ongoing illnesses.

A Disability Lawyer's Dream!
Lisa Copen of Rest Ministries has created a book titled A Woman's Health Resources Journal that helps people understand and organize practically all the information that they need for communicating on medical issues. This greatly simplifies working with medical people, pharmacists, insurance companies, the government, and anyone concerned with their health.

From the standpoint of a disability lawyer, it is a dream. Clients using this book will come to legal interviews prepared to outline their cases very quickly. I intend to recommend it to women clients, and hope Ms. Copen will soon produce a similar book for men.

If they read this book and complete the various short questionnaires and checklists, women will come prepared and confident to all kinds of health-related conversations. I would expect Lisa's readers to surmount obstacles faster than most, and to get much more benefit from the time they spend with their doctors.

Arranged in four main categories - physicians/insurance, pharmacy/labs/surgery, pain/illness, lifestyle, and notes - A Woman's Health Resources Journal has a very specific table of contents that takes readers directly to the subject of interest. Here they find discussion and brief questionnaires or checklists....

In using the book, however, readers must remember that numbers and statistics change with time, and verify them before acting on them....It is even wise to check with a Social Security claims representative before assuming that numbers in Social Security publications are up to date. The agency often furnishes publications that contain out of date figures.

A Woman's Health Resources Journal is very pleasant to browse and read. This is unusual for a book on an emotion-charged subject like health. The book leads you naturally into each subject, and usually satisfies. My mother and sister asked me to buy them the book after leafing through my review copy for only a few minutes. My sister appreciated that so many pages conclude with an apt quotation or Bible verse that refreshes. Again, if Lisa publishes a book like this for men, she can be sure of me as a customer...