How can academic institutions take a more active role in disease prevention for women?
Academic institutions can take a more active role in disease prevention by increasing communicating on disease prevention. In colleges for example they can hold a women health fair and get various wellness companies to come out and students can visit different booths and get material on the different diseases that are out there. A long with the booths have a health care provider conduct health screenings on site like blood work that can give you results the same day on your sugar levels, cholesterol, etc. College students have a higher tendency to eat unhealthy and educating them on the importance of healthy eating can go a long way.
Another way Academic institutions can take a more active role is by offering healthier menus for students. The other day I picked my niece up from school and I asked her about lunch. She said I take my lunch, school lunch is gross, they have pizza, burgers, fried chicken fingers, fries and other stuff that I could not believe they serve. It's been a while since I was in high school and I really don't remember what they served. If the children are eating unhealthy at an early age in school the likeliness of them continuing the unhealthy eating will continue.
Ultimately it is each individuals responsibility to work on a healthy life style to prevent diseases, but if academic institutions can help educate it will help a lot since we spend so many years in school.
