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Major PFAS Legislation Works its Way Through Congress
Extremely harmful toxins, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), contaminate water supplies, products, food packaging, and other everyday sources. It's why some national legislators want to pass a bill to designate these chemicals ...
What Latinos Should Know about the Moratorium on Evictions
After a federal moratorium on evictions put in place by the CDC last fall expired on July 31, 2021, the CDC has issued a new ...
Electric Cars: A Vehicle for Environmental Justice
The climate crisis is especially impacting Latinos and other people of color. Despite being low contributors to the rate ...
Bilingual Videos with Latino Doctors Help Answer Questions about COVID-19 Vaccines
Latinos are getting vaccinated for the COVID-19 vaccine at much lower rates than other groups. This mainly due to a lack ...
Zo Mpofu & Dakisha Wesley: Forging Alliances to Declare Racism a Public Health and Safety Crisis
Zo Mpofu believes protecting the health of mothers and babies in childbirth is a moral responsibility. That is why it ...
Farmer’s Markets Are Essential for Healthy Food Access amid COVID-19
Does your town have a farmers market? Farmers markets are a path to healthy food access. They are especially important ...
Emelina Asto-Flores: Participant in a COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Trial to Help Latinos!
Why did Emelina Asto-Flores volunteer for a clinical trial to test a COVID-19 vaccine? Asto-Flores, a community health ...Browse our articles
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Salud America! is daily curating toolkits, data, webinars and other educational materials to support you in creating obesity-reducing changes in your area. These curated resources are great nuts-and-bolts guides to change, as well as helpful content and data that can help you build a case for a decision-maker.
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Get the latest stories, research, and news on different aspects of Latino health, including: obesity, health equity, and how to grow a culture of health.
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Salud America! focuses on topics of potential change to promote a healthy environment and weight for Latino kids. Each topic has a scientific research review and bilingual issue brief, video, and infographics.
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They are people like you—children, parents, teachers, health workers—who learn of childhood obesity, get an idea to do something about it, mobilize support, and drive policy and system changes in schools and communities.
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Salud America! is daily curating toolkits, data, webinars and other educational materials to support you in creating obesity-reducing changes in your area.
These curated resources are great nuts-and-bolts guides to change, as well as helpful content and data that can help you build a case for a decision-maker.
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Giselle Rincon: A Venezuelan Immigrant Sending Help to her Home Country
When Giselle Rincon decided to start a nonprofit to help immigrants and offer humanitarian aid to ...
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Latino College Enrollment Shrunk During COVID-19
Latinos are suffering high rates of COVID-19 cases and deaths, with low vaccine rates. But in ...
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What Latinos Should Know About the Delta Variant
Across the country, COVID-19 cases are on the rise again, despite the vaccine being widely ...
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