The National Association of Hispanic Nurses (NAHN) is hosting a virtual conference from October 13-16 with the topic being “Educating the Latino Community on the Affordable Care Act.” The goal of the conference is to educate nurses, students, healthcare professionals, and anyone else interested in educating Latinos on the benefits of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The training module component will help prepare attendees that deal with Latino patients on a regular basis educate Latinos on the fundamentals of the ACA. This will include assisting them on applying for coverage through their state’s Medicaid site, through the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) or through the Health Insurance Marketplace. Attendees will be able to connect the importance of health ...
Every year the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) hosts a Feria de Salud (health fair) for Latinos in various areas across the nation. Recently LULAC hosted it's 3rd annual fair in Los Angeles California, helping nearly 10,000 residents connect to vital resources to address health disparities and increase access to health care in the Latino community. Providing free health screenings, glucose and cholesterol tests, as well as free vision and dental check-ups, the fair provides for and promotes healthy living. Cooking demonstrations are also set up by local celebrity chefs and farmers markets distribute thousands of dollars worth of produce to attendees to help encourage families to eat fresh foods. Fun fairs usually offer fried foods, sugary beverages, and very rarely ...
Yolanda Molina was diagnosed with cancer after Daisy, her Yorkie/Schnauzer hit her left breast. “The pain was so severe that tears rolled down my face,” Molina said. Two days after the incident, Yolanda found out she had breast cancer. “It’s said that God does not give us more than we can handle. I had been diabetic for28 years and under a doctor’s care for clinical depression, so I already had two strikes against me. After my first chemo treatment, I thought at the time that death had to be better,” Molina said. After going through chemo, diabetes and depression Yolanda won the battle against cancer. “Through it all, Daisy has been constantly by my side. I think about the night she “found” my lump. I think that her jumping on me made the lump come out. I ...
How do we see through false advertising claims from unhealthy food ads? One third of American kids are overweight or obese. These numbers of obesity rates rise in lower income neighborhoods and cause disease, diabetes, and joint deterioration. We make poor food choices, but what are they influenced by? Taking advantage of knowledge about food advertising, and food literacy education, the new Food Fight Toolkit helps schools, students, parents and staff learn how to make better buying decisions with health in ...
“You can grow anything. People have grown some crazy stuff with the towers,” Nate Storey, a tower farmer in Wyoming stated in a recent article from Civil Eats. “We’ve grown tomatoes and very large statured crops, watermelons. It works until they’re about 20 pounds apiece and then things start falling." Growing indoors in rural Rocky Mountain West, tower farms like these help rural areas provide fresh produce to locals without strain of the harsh climates during winter. Wyoming is considered to have the largest ranches and farms, but the fewest number of vegetable farms of any state. Having an easily accessible source for local fresh produce is important to Wyoming as many foods are shipped in from other areas and may not stay fresh as long. Latinos living in rural ...
With next phase of open enrollment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) scheduled to take place from November 1 through January 31, and the current administration is focusing efforts to expand health coverage to the uninsured in Dallas, Houston, New Jersey, Chicago, and Miami. “Overall, this open enrollment period is going to be tougher than last year,” said Sylvia Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services. “With our economy improving, more people can get coverage under employer plans.” While many have taken advantage of enrollment already, the administration will focus on 10.5 million uninsured Americans who were eligible through the public insurance exchanges. The Congressional Budget Office predicted in March of this year that enrollment through the exchanges would ...
San Antonio Food Bank is encouraging healthy living by encouraging runners, walkers, and bikers to use a phone app called Charity Miles. How does it work? The app tracks the miles of the person walking, running, or biking and corporate sponsors donate towards the athletes charity of choice. The app allows those exercising to donate their miles completed towards food access to San Antonio (63.2% Latino), where many Latino families live without access to fresh foods. 1 mile running or walking equals .25 cents, biking gives .10 cents per mile. Providing ways to help people donate to their favorite charities may help highly Latino populated cities like San Antonio to take advantage of free technology and get in more physical activity all while providing healthy foods and a local ...
The Oliver Foundation is offering three funding opportunities for summer and school year programs that teach healthy eating habits and physical activity. "The goal of the Oliver Foundation is to encourage children, families and communities in Texas to improve the eating and physical activity patterns of Pre-School, Elementary, Middle School and High School students." If your organization, agency or school is interested in implementing an innovative program to prevent childhood obesity apply for one of three grants by October 15th. In addition to funding, which ranges from $500 to $5000, grantees will receive support and on site visits from the Oliver Foundation. Projects are selected based on implementing the Oliver Foundations 7 Healthy Messages: Choose 5-A-Day ...
RJ Manchester and Erica Asti, staffers at the Florida Hospital for Children, along with Dr. Angela Fals and her team, spent years working with obese children and families in their Central Florida CCFW clinic. The local childhood overweight and obesity rates ranged from 32% in Orange County (28.7% Latino population) to 64% in Osceola County (48.6% Latino). The team was growing increasingly concerned about younger and younger patients with obesity-related health complications. “We were having some of the youngest patients we’ve ever had in the weight and wellness clinic with pre-diabetes and diabetes,” Asti said. They wanted to step up in a big way.
An underlying issue: No P.E. Asti and Manchester and the CCFW team discovered that many parents misidentified their ...
