The strategy we will employ for participants will be to improve their knowledge and awareness of personal health risk by identifying drivers. We will share information tailored to participants' risk factors on techniques with skill development for self-maintenance.
Direct participants to services that include identifying community linkages SDBNA will encourage, track and follow up with participants.
The San Diego Black Nurses Association, Inc. (SDBNA), one of over ninety NBNA chapters, was organized in 1976 by six forward thinking nurses: Eula May Banks, Maudesta George, Lottie Harris, Jewel Kelley, Dorothy Palmer Phillips (Trent), Betty Reliford. Our focus is to decrease healthcare disparities in the following areas: diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, breast cancer, prostate cancer and influenza.
