A regional health disparities research program has unveiled a new website, membership opportunity, and scholarships under the direction of Dr. Amelie G. Ramirez of the Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR) at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, the team behind SaludToday. Dr. Ramirez’ program is called GMaP Region 4. It is one of six regional GMaPs (or Transdisciplinary Geographic Management Programs) funded by the National Cancer Institute to bring together local networks of investigators to collaboratively identify and address health disparities in regions across the country. GMaP Region 4 is enhancing local communication, recruitment, and evaluation capacity to support health disparities research, training and outreach in Arizona, New Mexico, ...
The East Bay Regional Park District, in partnership with the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland and the Regional Parks Foundation (RPF), is bringing residents living in the San Francisco Bay area park prescriptions, through the Healthy Parks, Healthy People initiative. According to a July-August 2014 East Bay Regional Park newsletter, the partnership took shape in late 2013, when the groups came together to discuss a way to improve the health of children living in the East Bay area. The goal was to find the "best way to weave nature into the clinical experience," according to the regional park's newsletter. In addition to connecting patients to the outdoors through park prescriptions, the RPF is providing transportation for patients from clinics to parks. The RPF ...
Latinos are less likely than non-Latino whites to get screened for colorectal cancer, and are more likely to be diagnosed at harder-to-treat stages. Latino men, specifically, have a 17% lower screening rate than non-Latino men. That’s why Dr. Cynthia Mojica, a researcher at the Institute for Health Promotion Research at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, is creating a cultural- and language-relevant print-based tool to persuade Latino men to get colorectal cancer screening. Mojica’s efforts are fueled by a new grant from the Health Science Center’s Mentored Research Career Development (KL2) Program in Clinical and Translational Science. “The grant award will give me training, mentorship and research support to help me bring the community into the research ...
Find the latest advances in Latino health—studies on liver cancer rates and colorectal cancer screening, and a promotora’s heartwarming story of survival—in the IHPR Noticias E-newsletter. IHPR Noticias has lots of info on the latest local and national health disparities-related news, resources and events: Story: A Latina Cancer Survivor Makes a Career of Helping Others through Cancer (Pg. 1)
Profile: An Aspiring Doctor, Jennifer Garcia-Davalos, Works for Latino Health (Pg. 2)
Study: South Texas Latinos Have Nation’s Highest Liver Cancer Rates (Pg. 3)
Study: Local Researcher Hopes to Increase Colorectal Cancer Screening (Pg. 4)
Story: How to Fix Huge Lack of Hispanics in Clinical Trials (Pg. 6)
Story: Food Trucks—Healthy or Junk Food for Latinos (Pg. ...
Unique partnerships are bringing healthy lifestyle resources to families of central Florida, according to a recent blog post from the YMCA. As stated in the blog post, at least four YMCA facilities in the area will be seeing improvements thanks to generous donations from local businesses and partnerships with health groups. Local businessman Frank De Luca donated $1 million to the YMCA (Y) in Marion county and the Munroe Regional Medical Center has agreed to partner with the Y to expand wellness programs to over 40,000 residents in the area. Additional partnerships in central Florida with the Florida Hospital, Orlando Health, and the West Orange Healthcare District will also help to increase the number of health and wellness programs offered to residents in Winter Garden, ...
Hospitals can be a role model in the community, a trusted source for information not only about healing sickness but about healthy living. In San Antonio, TX, where over half the population is Latino, one hospital has decided to step-up their role as a health care provider for children in the community. The Children’s Hospital of San Antonio is partnering with the Culinary Institute of America in San Antonio (CIA), the Goldsbury Foundation, and H-E-B, to begin a new culinary health and education program aimed at reducing childhood obesity and improving access to nutritious food for patients of the Hospital and the community at large. According to a press release on June 4th, 2014, the program will provide a comprehensive and carefully designed approach to childhood health and ...
May is Exercise is Medicine Month. Exercise is Medicine (EIM), is a global initiative to make physical activity and exercise a standard part of traditional medicine. Because a growing body of scientific evidence points to exercise as a key way to prevent and treat over 40 chronic diseases, members of the Exercise is Medicine network want to encourage physicians and health care practitioners to get involved with getting their patients to exercise. EIM's main goals are to: Create a broad awareness that exercise is, indeed, medicine.
Makes “level of physical activity” a standard vital sign question at each patient visit.
Helps physicians and other health care providers become consistently effective in counseling and referring patients as to their physical activity ...
Check out this great profile of Latina public health research Dr. Larissa Avilés Santa. The profile, by CienciaPR, chronicles Avilés Santa's career development, from how she got interested in anatomy and endocrinology in 4th grade in elementary school, studied medicine and translational research in Puerto Rico, worked in heart disease prevention and diabetes clinical trials at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, and joined the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) in 2006. Now she is directing the largest-ever study on U.S. Latino health (the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos). Avilés Santa said the initial results from the large study indicate high risks for diabetes and heart disease among Latinos, creating new opportunities for ...
Hispanics suffer higher rates of certain cancers, including cervical cancer and childhood leukemia, than other groups. That is one of the reasons behind Lifelines, a series of cancer education articles, videos and audio files from the National Cancer Institute’s Multicultural Media Outreach (MMO) program. The Lifelines series, in both English and Spanish, addresses cancer prevention, treatment, survivorship, health disparities, clinical trials and other cancer-related topics for African-American, Hispanic, Asian American and Pacific Islander and Native American populations. Lifelines Videos feature videos on a wide range of topics, including colorectal, breast, and cervical cancer, tobacco use and lung cancer, complementary and alternative medicine, and nutrition and cancer ...
