Two new cholesterol drugs are too expensive, according a to a new report-Time Magazine informs. The report, published by the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review looked at Repatha and Praluent, both recently approved by the FDA, and “weighed their benefits, including preventing heart attacks and death, against their prices.” Repatha costs $14,100 a year and Praluent costs $14,600, but according to researchers the cost should be $3,615 to $4,811 a year. “The price would actually have to drop even further, to an annual drug cost of $2,177, for the “total costs of these new drugs to come down to a level at which doctors and insurers would not have to try to limit patient use in some way to keep overall health care cost growth within bounds,” the researchers ...
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsak announced that the USDA will award $2.6 million to support the new national professional standards for nutrition employees who manage and operate school lunch and breakfast programs in 19 states, and will award $5.6 million to help 19 states expand and enhance food service training programs and provide nutrition education in school, child care, and summer meal settings through the Team Nutrition Training Grant. The goal is to develop an educated workforce and sustainable programs to create healthy environments in order to improve children's lifelong eating and physical activity habits. States receiving Team Nutrition grants identify that many children in childcare enjoy healthier meals, and along with their parents and caregivers, are exposed to ...
Two qualitative studies, Nutrition and Physical Activity Environments of Home-Based Care: What Hispanic Providers Have to Say and Latino Family Childcare Providers' Beliefs, Attitudes and Practices Related to Promotion of Healthy Behaviors among Preschool Children: A Qualitative Study, explored the perceptions, beliefs and attitudes of Latino family child care providers regarding nutrition, physical activity, sedentary time, and communication with parents. Findings from Nutrition and Physical Activity Environments of Home-Based Care: What Hispanic Providers Have to Say suggest that providers may have knowledge regarding healthy eating and physical activity; however, they lack practical application of this knowledge into everyday activities. Findings from Latino Family Childcare ...
In June, 2015, It's Time Texas and Dell's Children Medical Center of Central Texas introduced an app for Central Texas businesses and organizations to promote their healthy activities. The Choose Healthier Mobile App is a free app to connect Austin area (35.1% Latino) residents with local health-focused information, activities and events, such as yoga and gardening classes. One barrier to accessing healthy food and activities is lack of knowledge regarding availability. This app could help families adopt healthier habits by providing them information regarding the time and location. Additionally, this app could help Latino families because It's Time Texas developed a tutorial in Spanish. Learn more about the Choose Healthier ...
Teachers and youth groups in Texas now have access to a free mobile app to help them with teaching important nutrition and physical activity concepts. The new Teach Healthier mobile app, which was launched at the TAHPERD Convention in December 2014, was developed by It's Time Texas in partnership with: Snap-Ed, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, and The University of Texas School of Public Health Austin Regional Campus. In just one month over 1,000 individuals have downloaded the app. According to an It's Time Texas blog, coach Katie Harris at the Harmony Science Academy, a school located in Northwest in Houston, uses the app at least 2-3 times a week to teach PE and health to her 5th, 6th and 8th grade students. Wiithout the app Harris would not be able to teach important ...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was in part established to increase healthcare coverage among racial/ethnic minorities to improve their access and utilization of care. But many factors still prevent individuals from obtaining care. Latino and Black adults who are privately insured don’t fare as well as White adults on several healthcare utilization and access categories and have less confidence in their ability to afford medical costs, according to a recent survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Among the uninsured, there are fewer differences between Latino and Black adults and White adults and Medicaid enrollees; where there were differences, Latinos and Black adults fared better than White adults in most cases. Latinos also were less likely than Whites to delay or forgo ...
Latinas born in the U.S. to immigrant parents have had higher rates of depression and suicide attempts for more than 40 years. “Research shows that young Latinas, especially those born in the U.S. to immigrant parents, think about suicide, plan suicide, and actually attempt suicide more than other teens. Their suicide attempt rates have been up to twice as high as for other youth,” Dr. Luis Zayas, dean of the School of Social Work at the University of Texas-Austin told WAMC-Radio. Part of the problem, according to Zayas is that Latinas assimilate to mainstream culture faster than their parents becoming a conflict “that escalates until there is a crisis that sparks the suicide attempt.” Dr. Zayas recommends positive parent-adolescent communication, which, according to ...
Getting Latino kids to eat vegetables isn't always an easy job, especially when Latinos are more likely to live in neighborhoods that have little to no access to local grocery stores. However, a recent research study in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics suggests that Latino kids who consume more vegetables in their diets, are healthier overall, even if they are overweight. The study reveals that kids who are eating vegetables, like spinach, broccoli or carrots, even for just a fraction of their diet, can reduce bad fats in the body. The study focused on a group of overweight Latino children, monitored by a researchers from The Keck School of Medicine, and the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin). They found that children who consume one or two ...
Juanita Gatrelle, a P.E. teacher at Specht Elementary School in San Antonio, isn't afraid to "bribe" kids to get physically active. Gatrelle takes advantage of prizes offered by corporations and groups to reward kids for participating in various activities in her new after-school program that is for students, families, and the public. "The NFL and the Dairy Farmers of America have teamed up to reward kids, basically bribe them to get moving, and that’s just fine with me," she said. Gatrelle was featured this week on the “Making Awesome Changes” TV series, which partners KSAT-TV and Salud America! to feature people and groups who are pushing for healthy changes. Salud America!, a Latino childhood obesity research network funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and ...
