November 21, 2020, 13:00 - 14:00
Deconstructing Breast Health - Connecting the Dots between Breasts and Adolescent, Maternal, Reproductive and Oncological Health
Nicole Joseph-Chin
Nicolengj@gmail.com
In the multiple disciplines of public health and particularly intergenerational health dialogues, there is a vast disconnection between the influence of breast health and diverse stages and the states of a woman’s health and a society’s perception of gender focused health.
These gaps are also indirectly connected to mental health and the wellbeing and progress of a society, as the populations can better participate in integrated approaches to health care, if we adopt a more inclusive approach to the discourse.
For a number of years, the discussions around menstrual health, maternal and reproductive health and mental health, all excluded the influences on these clinical and anatomical changes, tied into the effects on breasts in general. In the discourses around interventions for wellbeing and menstrual heath, the focus is usually on the genital and reproductive organs - omitting the breasts. The major instances where there is any focus on breast health occur and apply to subject matters around post natal care during breastfeeding and post-oncological diagnosis of breast cancer.
Taking into consideration the active participation in providing and promoting radical interventions in education, public health awareness and clinical solutions around health impact, it is important to delve into how these interventions can create healthier societies and influence the sustainable development goals – 1, 2, 3, 5, 11 – and especially using applying goal 17 of unified engagement for the overall impact.
This study proposes to engage the audience with tools, findings, experiences, references, results and social innovation which has inculcated dignity into the development of the adolescent body, the woman who has been diagnosed and requires rehabilitation as well as the clinical practitioner who needs a team of resources for the successful outcome of post operative care, following surgical procedures to their patients.
The work of this project has already been introduced on five continents and our relationship with academia to introduce the methodologies to their curricular works has enabled us to provide empirical evidence of the importance of our work in enhancing the delivery of holistic solutions for a better social impact.