Expecting a baby is one of the most magical experiences in a woman's life. But do you know how important the first trimester is for your baby and your health? Here are a few of the 19 recommendations for pregnant women in their first trimester from the Someday Starts Now campaign: Choose an obstetrician or health care provider. Make an appointment to be seen before the end of your 12th week.
Start or continue taking prenatal vitamins containing 400 to 800 mcg of folic acid.
If you have had a previous premature baby, let your doctor or midwife know. There are medications that you can take to reduce your risk of another premature delivery.
Stop drinking alcohol, smoking and using street drugs.
Contact your health insurance company about coverage. See the full set of ...
The City of Orlando (25.4% Latino) is in the process of establishing a Complete Streets policy to promote a safe and active transportation alternatives to keep Orlando competitive in attracting new business, retaining a diverse workforce and maintaining a healthy community. Complete Streets policies address built environment changes to support safe, active modes of transportation, such as more sidewalks, more crosswalks, more visible crosswalks, more bike lanes, and road diets to slow traffic. When safe and available these changes can increase residents physical activity by removing barriers and providing safe opportunities to bike and walk. Policies that remove environmental barriers can have numerous economic and health benefits, particularly for Latinos who are ...
You want to pass on family traditions, a grandmother’s quilt or dad’s love of books—but no one wants to pass on a serious illness. That's why vaccines are so important, especially for Latinos. Few adults know about the need for vaccines and even fewer are fully vaccinated, and fewer Latino adults get proper vaccinations (33%) than their white counterparts (45%). That means tens of thousands of adults needlessly suffer, are hospitalized, and even die as a result of diseases that could be prevented by vaccines. And if you get sick, you may risk spreading certain diseases to others. That’s a risk most of us do not want to take. Infants, older adults and people with weakened immune systems (like those undergoing cancer treatment) are especially vulnerable to infectious ...
“Lower-income people having control over their own food is powerful and affirming,” said Mary Petit the co-founder and operator of a community garden in the highly populated latino county of San Bernardino, California, in a recent SeedStock article. Petit stated that her Incredible Edible Community Garden is, “all about growing health and well-being for the community.” Co-founded and operated by Mary Petit and Eleanor Torres, the Incredible Edible Community Garden helps lower- income Latino population address the need of food insecurity for the community. The community is considered amongst the biggest county in the nation with Latinos being the majority, according to the PEW research Center. Also, bringing jobs, food security and increased health to the county ...
It is important for public health professionals to improve health equity through evaluation that engages participants and is culturally relevant. Even minor improvements in evaluation will enhance the effectiveness of obesity prevention efforts in disadvantaged populations. In 2013, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released Evaluating Obesity Prevention Efforts: A Plan for Measuring Progress, which provides a framework for planning, implementation, and evaluation of obesity prevention efforts. Part of this report is the Obesity Evaluation Toolkit: Resources for Evaluating Community-Level Obesity Prevention Efforts, which provides the following six key steps and principles for community-level evaluation: 1. Design Stakeholder Involvement 2. Identify Resources for ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the approval of Dexcom G5, a mobile continuous glucose monitoring system (CGM). This new system could be a great relief for the 12.8 percent of Latinos living with diabetes. How will it work? The user will carry a Bluetooth enable device attached to his/her body which will measure the levels of glucose under the skin,it will then send the information to the user's smartphone. According to Dexcom, Inc this is the first system of its kind approved by the FDA to measure glucose levels in the blood in adults and children as young as 2 years old. "Dexcom is rapidly advancing technology for continuous glucose monitoring devices to improve diabetes management. Since January, the company has introduced the G4 PLATINUM CGM ...
Whole foods offers an ongoing program to provide salad bars to schools across the nation. Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools program for schools helps students enjoy the benefits of healthier diets. Studies show that when fruits and vegetables are available, students eat more healthy options. Helping Latino kids eat healthier may help combat the rising obesity rates in Latino kids. Applying for a salad bar, requires that the school district operates under the USDA National School Lunch Program, and that the school has at least 100 students. All schools interested in applying for the salad bar, are encouraged to read this article first. To learn more about applying, click ...
The Canyon Ranch Institute (CRI) is a non-profit that works to bring health and wellness to the world. Home to Tucson, Arizona (30.3% Latino), the organization helps their community in various ways. Bringing a Healthy Community program pilot to the area back in 2014, the CRI Healthy Community program is now offered in partnership with Apollo Middle School and the Grow 2B Fit Foundation to bring wellness and health to the families in Apollo Middle School (98.1% Latino) . The start date for the CRI Healthy Community is set for this fall, October 24th, 2015. Participants can learn from cooking and nutrition classes, destress with physical activity and join together for healthy eating with the on site garden. The program focuses on participants with low income, high stress and high ...
Minorities, and women are underrepresented in many medical specialties, according to a new study—Fox Health reports. In a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers looked at the number of women and minorities (Hispanic and black) who graduated in 2012. “Medical schools have been trying to increase the diversity of their students, with perhaps the assumption that this increased diversity will translate downstream to all specialties," Dr. Curtiland Deville of John Hopkins University in Baltimore told Reuters. But, despite these efforts there still exist “disproportionate underrepresentation of women and minorities,” especially in the areas of radiology, orthopedics and otolaryngology. Based on public data, researchers determined that out of 16,835 medical ...
