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Obesity and diabetes are serious health concerns in underserved Latino communities.
In this video from HBO’s The Weight of the Nation Series, America Bracho executive director of Latino Health Access (LHA) explains why interventions are needed both before and after chronic diseases develop.
“Any strategy wanting to defeat obesity needs to be community centered,” Bracho said.
Bracho has worked with the Latino community in Santa Ana, CA to find both short term and long term solutions to dealing with obesity. One way LHA is doing this is by bringing mobile playgrounds to children. The group is also working to have a park built in an area of the city where not one park exists.
“We need to do something today…We need to create parks,” Bracho remarks in this video.
By The Numbers
33
percent
of Latinos live within walking distance (<1 mile) of a park
