More and more people are making strides in obtaining health care coverage, partly in response to the passing of the Affordable Care Act. For Latinos, they are still the largest uninsured population in the country. All across the country, Latinos are the fastest growing population. This is no exception in the state of Nebraska. However, Latinos in Nebraska lag far behind in both medical care and health insurance coverage. Over 35% of all Latino adults between the ages of 18 and 64 do not have a personal physician. This has been shown to lead to a host of potentially serious medical conditions. “Lack of medical care. Latinos do not have access to health or mental health services, they don't have a medical home or primary care facility,” said Dr. Aida Maisonet Giachello, research ...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has recently offered resources on getting the most out of your healthcare coverage. Four essential tips can be utilized to successfully manage health insurance all year long. Pay your first month’s premium. You have to pay your premium each month to keep your health insurance benefits.
Turn in your paperwork. All of your information must be submitted for your coverage to take effect.
Update your personal and financial information. Make sure you take note of any “life changes” (change of income, change of household size, residence, etc.) as soon as they happen.
File your income taxes. If you had a tax credit in 2015, you must file your 2015 federal income tax return. Open enrollment for 2017 health plans begins on ...
According to the U.S. Military Processing Exam, 62,000 new recruits to the military were turned away in joining the military due to their weight. Juan Cardenas, a member of the Marine Corps junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) at Northridge High School, offered fellow students a presentation on healthier foods, nutrition, calories, and label reading. Sixteen year old Cardenas said in a local article, that he wasn't always the strongest and fastest kid, but was always the bigger kid, but now he is the kid that can "hold his own" and compete. Cardenas knows that eating healthy and exercising has helped him and hopes to show that to his peers. Latino kids are at higher risks for diet-related dieseases like obesity and diabetes, and according to the the local article, ...
Health messaging is a critical way to empower health equity. But without relevant, culturally competent health messages, Latinos will continue to face vast health disparities in diabetes, heart disease, and certain cancers, especially in the face of conflicting unhealthy marketing by the food and beverage industry. Let’s use #SaludTues on April 12, 2016, during National Minority Health Month, to tweet about how healthcare professionals, public health professionals, city leaders, businesses, schools, and you can alter language and images in their health messaging to promote health for Latinos. WHAT: #SaludTues Tweetchat: “How to Alter Health Messaging to Promote Prevention for Latinos”
TIME/DATE: 1-2 p.m. EST Tuesday, April 12, 2016
WHERE: On Twitter with hashtag ...
With funding from The California Endowment, the Alliance for a Healthier Generation's Healthy Schools Program has launched a new initiate, Active Students, Active Minds, to help elementary, middle, and high schools in California (38.6% Latino) provide 60 minutes of physical activity for kids through a 60 minute equation (see image for equation). Any school staff member is eligible to register their school for free. When a school registers to participate, a school representative will have access to resources, trainings, assistance from national experts, and a customizable assessment tool and action plan, and will be prompted throughout the year to solve the 60 minute equation. Each week, schools will receive 2 simple classroom breaks/activities and a bonus activity to reach the ...
New 30-second videos produced by Sesame Street and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) aim to teach kids how to avoid contracting the virus, NBC Health reports. The videos uses the famous Sesame Street characters to explain to children the importance of covering and sealing all water containers to avoid mosquitos from breeding. It also reminds children to wear long sleeves whenever possible. Watch video one and video two! Learn more about Zika and summer ...
The Springfield City Council has voted to authorize seven million dollars to help support a growing meals program for the state's second largest public school system. The money will help purchase and renovate a warehouse dedicated to help save taxpayers money and provide healthier school meals for the city's 30,000 impoverished kids, by housing all food-related operations for the district into one place. The school's department of finance chief Patrick Roach explained that the warehouse will help save the program over half a million dollars a year, and help create a culinary and nutrition center that will allow for more scratch cooking and less processed foods. The warehouse will also allow high school students learning opportunities and provide 40 additional full-time jobs to ...
Datos de un nuevo estudio sugieren que 1 de cada 5 personas (18% de hombres y el 21% de las mujeres) serán obesas para el año 2025, informa CNN. El estudio, publicado en la revista The Lancet, comparo tendencias del índice de masa corporal de más de 200 países entre 1975 y 2015, y llegó a la conclusión de que "[en] cuatro décadas, la obesidad mundial se ha triplicado entre los hombres y se duplicó entre las mujeres". Otros hallazgos clave del estudio fueron los siguientes: • Más hombres padecen de obesidad que de malnutrición en 136 países y más mujeres padecen de obesidad que de malnutrismo en 165 paises.
• En 1975, el 2,6% de la población mundial era obesa; en 2014, ese número aumentó a 8,9%.
• En 2025, el estudio estima que el 43% de las mujeres y el ...
Wanting to help change the scene for healthy school lunches, mom of three and now new entreprenuer, Gaby Wilday started her own way of changing school lunches. With a startup company called, No Fuss Lunch, Wilday works with schools to offer up fresh and healthier options like organic salads and whole wheat made bread. After Wilday's daughter came home from school with expired raisins, which were considered a "fruit" she was inspired to create healthier lunches that included fresh organic fruits and vegetables for her daughter and her 7 friends kids. The lunches cost more, as they are made with no white ingredients and organic fruits and vegetables, but are convenient for families who don't have time to make lunches in the morning, and allows parents and kids to go online and ...
