Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated every year between September and October to honor the contributions of Hispanic culture as well as its rich history and traditions. Despite Latinos being the fastest growing and youngest group of Americans—many are not registered to vote. It’s estimated that in 2016, 28 million Latinos will be eligible to vote. To raise awareness about this issue and to get more Latinos to become registered voters Voto Latino has launched the campaign Hispanic Heritage Month of Action (HHMA). “Hispanic Heritage Month of Action is a one of a kind on-the-ground and digital voter registration campaign that seeks to shift this cultural celebration to a month of action around voter registration and community organizing,” HHMA said in a written ...
El utilizar contraceptivos orales mejor conocidos como la “pastilla del día después” podría ayudar a prevenir el cáncer uterino, reporta Time Magazine. El estudio publicado en The Lancet Oncology, reviso datos de 7,276 mujeres con cáncer uterino y 115,743 mujeres sin este, de entre 36 estudios distintos. Los investigadores estimaron que 400,00 casos de este cáncer han sido prevenidos ya que mujeres han tomado la pastilla por 50 años, y 200,000 de estos casos han sido prevenidos en los últimos 10 años. De acuerdo al estudio el “efecto protector” continua años después de dejar la pastilla. “Las mujeres que la toman cuando están en sus 20’s o hasta más jóvenes continúan beneficiándose del efecto protector después de los 50’s, cuando el cáncer se ...
The last in a series of reports by the Kids Safe and Healthful Foods Project, this report (1) describes the training needs of school food authorities and personnel to successfully implement USDA’s updated nutrition standards; and (2) provides recommendations for school nutrition professionals. In order to meet updated meal standards and requirements and to improve the quality of meals served to students, many school food authorities must modify some of their practices. These modifications may require additional training in nutrient content, cooking skills, food safety, and the use of new kitchen equipment. This report explores these training needs and provides recommendations. Additionally, food service personnel in child care centers also need to make modifications ...
Physical activity is a necessity with many cities dealing with high obesity rates, but how can physical activity be promoted within neighborhoods? Street connectivity and walkability are two built environment factors that may assist in physical activity within neighborhoods. Educational tools that analyze a support for walkability are helpful in understanding ways to change the built environment to help the community increase physical activity daily and in helping combat obesity. A recent report by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) used a 15-item environment audit tool, called MAPS-Mini to evaluate neighborhood design and physical activity in four age groups. MAPS stands for, Microscale Audit of Pedestrian Streetscapes (MAPS), it works to measure street design, ...
Miami, a highly Latino populated city (65.6% Latino) is also struggling with obesity for the many immigrant families that live in low-income areas. In fact according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 67.4% of the adult population of the county is overweight or obese. For 23 years, a pediatric mobile health clinic supported by Children's Health fund and Miami Miller School of Medicine has been providing comprehensive medical care to low-income children. The University of Miami Pediatric Mobile clinic is now acknowledging the obesity issues in the low-income migrant population. The mobile clinic will now be providing and testing a new telehealth obesity prevention program. Using technology such as text messaging, health education apps, electronic fitness ...
According to a new report by the CDC more Americans are smoking less this year compared to 2014, Latin Times reports. The CDC’s Health Interview Survey show only 15.2 % of U.S. adults smoke on a regular basis compared to 16.8% in 2014. “Latinos (10.4%) were less likely to smoke than whites (17.1%) and African Americans (18.1%), the data show.” Among young adults 18-44 the smoking rate was 17%, very similar to the rate among middle-aged adults (16.9%). Among senior citizens the rate was even lower only 7.5%. The current rates show a significant drop compared to 2009 when 20.6% of adults were regular ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently unveiled an action plan to address health equity and reduce health disparities in Medicare within four years. The CMS Equity Plan for Improving Quality in Medicare has six steps: Expand the Collection, Reporting, and Analysis of Standardized Data
Evaluate Disparities Impacts and Integrate Equity Solutions Across CMS Programs
Develop and Disseminate Promising Approaches to Reduce Health Disparities
Increase the Ability of the Health Care Workforce to Meet the Needs of Vulnerable Populations
Improve Communication and Language Access for Individuals with Limited English Proficiency and Persons with Disabilities
Increase Physical Accessibility of Health Care Facilities “Making sure care is equitable is ...
Now you can be more connected with Latino health issues with a new bilingual live show produced by Salud America!, formerly called SaludToday. #SaludbySandra & #SaludconSandra will air every Tuesday at 11 a.m. ET on Periscope and Twitter. The show is hosted by Professor Sandra San Miguel, Research Instructor at the Institute for Health Promotion Research --the team behind Salud America!. Here’s the schedule of the topics we will cover in the next three weeks: 09/15/2015- National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month
09/22/2015- Oral Health Habits
09/29/2015- Family Health & Fitness You can catch the show live on Periscope and ...
The League of American Bicyclists recognizes that women, youth and people of color are underrepresented in many bike advocacy efforts; therefore, in 2013, they established the Equity Initiative to engage leaders from traditionally underrepresented groups. The Equity of Access to Bicycle Infrastructure: GIS Methods for Investigating the Equity of Access to Bike Infrastructure (1) explores a case study evaluation of bicycle infrastructure access in Chicago; (2) details the methodology of the construction of a Bicycle Equity Index (BEI), the mapping of the BEI to identify disadvantaged communities, and the mapping and analysis of bicycle facilities to identify access deprived areas; and (3) provides a tutorial regarding the methods previously described. This case study found that ...
