Health and wellness site caters to women of color
Ayana Jones/Special to the NNPA from the Philadelphia Tribune
Issue date: 12/7/08 Section: Health
"You have to be your own consumer when it comes to your health, otherwise the wrong decision can be made," Farmer stressed.
As a marriage and family therapist, Evans-Weaver is concerned that most of the mental health information that is presented online is mostly Eurocentric.
"A lot of the mental health therapies are so individually-based so coming from a collectivist culture it doesn't really connect well with how we think and interact and engage and relate to one another. So I would like to see more information that speaks to who we are as a culture instead of pathologying our behaviors," Evans-Weaver said.
The founders of OurHealth conducted focus groups and information sessions with women between the ages of 20 and 85, in which participants were asked to give their opinions about their health concerns and to offer feedback on what they hoped to see in a Web site designed specifically for them. An estimated 400 women indicated that they would like to participate in the network.
While their main venue is online, the founders of OurHealth are taking their message directly to the community through a series of health networking events that will be held in Philadelphia, New York and Washington, D.C.
As a marriage and family therapist, Evans-Weaver is concerned that most of the mental health information that is presented online is mostly Eurocentric.
"A lot of the mental health therapies are so individually-based so coming from a collectivist culture it doesn't really connect well with how we think and interact and engage and relate to one another. So I would like to see more information that speaks to who we are as a culture instead of pathologying our behaviors," Evans-Weaver said.
The founders of OurHealth conducted focus groups and information sessions with women between the ages of 20 and 85, in which participants were asked to give their opinions about their health concerns and to offer feedback on what they hoped to see in a Web site designed specifically for them. An estimated 400 women indicated that they would like to participate in the network.
While their main venue is online, the founders of OurHealth are taking their message directly to the community through a series of health networking events that will be held in Philadelphia, New York and Washington, D.C.
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