Advocates in Action Promoting a Healthy Active Lifestyle for the Women of Coos County

The Women's Health Coalition was formed in the early 1990sfrom a networking of community organizations with a common concern for women's health and a belief that healthy, empowered women are the key to a healthy community.

The Zonta Club of the Coos Bay Area played a key role in the coalition's formation with its goal to impact breast cancer awareness and create breast cancer screening opportunities for women who lack adequate medical care resources.

In recent years the coalition's programs have included such topics as menopause, osteoporosis, teen health, pregnancy prevention, female incontinence, and heart disease. Our current focus is to promote a healthy active lifestyle for women.

The Women's Health Coalition advocates for improving availability and awareness of healthy lifestyle choices, facilitation of health screening in collaboration with community partners, promoting exercise as a prevention and management tool against chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and many cancers.