A Woman's Health Resource Journal [Ring-bound]

Lisa Copen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2, 2002

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.

Editorial Reviews

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.

Product Details

• Ring-bound: 216 pages
• Publisher: Copen Publishing (January 2, 2002)
• ISBN-10: 097165980X
• ISBN-13: 978-0971659803
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,030,201 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Lisa Copen is the founder of Rest Ministries, the largest Christian organization that specifically serves the chronically ill. She has authored nine books, including resources for over 300 HopeKeepers groups, a small group program of Rest Ministries.

Her newest book is "How to Start a Chronic Illness Small Group Ministry," 320 pages packed full of everything from logistical steps in presenting your idea to the church, to the emotional and spiritual part of deciding if this is something to take on within the limitations your illness may give you.

As editor of HopeKeepers Magazine, founder of National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week, and host of Hope Endures radio program Lisa seeks to encourage churches to increase an outreach to the chronically ill nearly 1 in 2 people in the U.S. She was awarded the "Women's Health Hero" Award for 2009 as the "Audience Choice" given by Our Bodies Ourselves.

Lisa is also the designer of Scrapbook My Adoption, providing transparency overlays and other designs for baby books and personalized adoption albums.

Lisa's works have been published in periodicals such as Just Between Us and Faith Writers Magazine, and books including God Allow U-Turns. Lisa is a sought-after speaker and has been a guest of radio programs Decision Today, Family Life and Joni and Friends and national TV programs like "Peace in the Storm" and "Heroes Among Us."

She resides in San Diego with her husband and young son, and has lived with degenerative rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia since 1993.

She is a member of AWSA, a Christian writers and speakers women's group and also helps author with internet marketing tips, presenting marketing ideas and tips at Christian writer's workshops.

Interesting facts? Hmmm. . . Lisa wore the same pair of sandals for over 5 years due to the inability to find shoes that fit her deformed feet from her disease, plus hammer toes. She has been a passenger on the prednisone roller coaster; as her dosages have gone up and down, so has her weight, gaining over 80 pounds, losing it in 2003-2005 and then regaining it. She's currently on the "down cycle" but the steroid continues to make it a fight. She is ready for a new "Author photo" too!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Makes it Easy to Get Organize & be Your Own Health Advocate, April 2, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: A Woman's Health Resource Journal (Ring-bound)

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

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars reviewed by a person with diabetes, April 8, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: A Woman's Health Resource Journal (Ring-bound)

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.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Disability Lawyer's Dream!, April 2, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: A Woman's Health Resource Journal (Ring-bound)

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...