At Salud America!, we're excited to discuss health during Hispanic Heritage Month! This annual U.S. observance, from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, celebrates the histories, backgrounds and contributions of American citizens whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America and Latin America.
How Did Hispanic Heritage Month Start?
U.S. Congressmen George E. Brown and Edward R. Roybal of Los Angeles, and Henry B. Gonzales, were among those who introduced legislation on the topic in 1968. President Lyndon Johnson implemented the observance as Hispanic Heritage Week that year. U.S. Rep. Esteban E. Torres of Pico Rivera proposed the observance be expanded to cover a 31-day period. President Ronald Reagan implemented the expansion to Hispanic Heritage ...
As summer come to an end, children and families are gearing up for another school year. Between the school supplies, new clothes, and getting back into the routine of things, it’s important to ensure students and families are healthy and safe! With this in mind, let’s look at helpful reminders for back to school.
1. Keep a Sleep Schedule
Having a consistent sleep schedule can impact one’s health and wellbeing. For example, studies show an association between insufficient sleep and obesity. “Poor sleep is also linked with the likelihood of developing diabetes and, over a longer term, with heart problems,” according to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Consistent sleep schedules also support emotional regulation and mood stability, cognitive ability, immune ...
People need social interaction to live a healthy life.
Yet many aging adults face social isolation, a lack of social contacts and few people to interact with regularly, and loneliness, the distressing feeling of being alone or separated.
How can we avoid social isolation and loneliness as we age?
Check out our new fact sheet, A Guide to Combating Social Isolation & Loneliness, to help our abuelos, familias, and amigos understand social isolation and loneliness and ways to combat them and avoid Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias.
This fact sheet was created by Dr. Amelie G. Ramirez of Salud America! and UT Health San Antonio and its partner the San Antonio Center for AD/ADRD Population Aging and Social Studies (San Antonio CAPAS) at UT Health San Antonio.
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The Rural Health Information Hub (RHI Hub) and the NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis have created the Rural Mobile Healthcare Toolkit to help organizations start mobile healthcare programs in rural areas. The toolkit highlights model programs and contains resources for program development, implementation, evaluation, and more. Let’s take a closer look at the toolkit and why support for rural healthcare is important. Get the toolkit!
RHI Hub’s Rural Mobile Healthcare Toolkit
The Rural Mobile Healthcare Toolkit includes considerations and challenges that organizations may face when developing, implementing, evaluating, and sustaining mobile healthcare programs in rural communities. Additionally, the toolkit shares benefits and barriers of mobile healthcare, ...
August is Children’s Eye Health and Safety Month, a time that highlights the importance of protecting children’s vision. With this in mind, Salud America! has put together a list of helpful tools and resources for parents and families to learn more about children’s eye health and vision.
1. Prevent Blindness
Through Prevent Blindness, the National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health is a place where parents and caregivers can find a multitude of support. Health education resources, including vision and eye health presentations and webinars and children’s vision fact sheets, posters, reports, and publications. There are also plenty of resources for parents and caregivers with children who have vision problems or impairment. In collaboration with the National ...
You’ve probably heard the phrase, “Such and such causes cancer,” more than a handful of times in your life. Some of these claims are true. Others are myths. False claims of using products or engaging in alleged cancer-causing behaviors can be detrimental for your health and contribute to the spread of incorrect information. But how do you know if a claim is true? Public health leaders created a helpful database, called Cancer FactFinder, that can help you determine if something is truly linked to cancer or if it’s simply a myth. Let’s go over the tool, how to use it, and its many applications.
Cancer FactFinder
Cancer FactFinder is a free, evidence-based database to address the spread of incorrect information about ...
Amid a sweltering summer heat wave, communities in the U.S. East Coast are struggling to handle the stress on energy demand in homes built to heat rather than cool. In fact, many households across the county experience a lack of air conditioning reliability. This often-overlooked non-medical driver of health impacts overlooked populations, lower income individuals, those who live in rural areas, and families that live in densely populated urban areas that lack shade or in older buildings with no central air. Let’s explore how air conditioning reliability (or unreliability) can affect the health of you and your familia—and how local communities can address this inconsistency.
State of Air Conditioning Reliability
Over 35 million Americans live ...
Healthy eating can be a challenge for many different reasons. Lack of access to grocery stores, rising food costs, and lack of awareness of how to eat healthy are just a few reasons why some people have worse nutritional diets than others. That’s where Nutrition Navigation can help. Nutrition Navigation is a new virtual nutrition counseling service from Healthier Texas that is designed to connect Texans with personalized, evidence-based care from registered dietitians. Let’s dive deeper into this tool and see how it can help Texas families and communities.
The Benefits of Nutrition Navigation
Nutrition Navigation was created to help combat the barriers that communities face when it comes to understanding and practicing better nutrition. Through Nutrition Navigation, ...
Para vivir una vida saludable, el ser humano necesita la interacción social. ¿Pero sabía usted que la cantidad de tiempo que una persona socializa puede tener un efecto directo en la salud de su cerebro? El aislamiento social no solo se vincula a una salud cerebral negativa, sino que los impactos también pueden empeorarse dependiendo del lugar donde viva, según un estudio reciente de UT San Antonio y Princeton University. Consulte nuestra nueva hoja informativa, ¿Cómo afecta el aislamiento social a la salud cerebral en adultos mayores?, para ayudar a nuestros abuelos y abuelas en todo el mundo a comprender cómo mantener una vida social activa puede afectar su salud cerebral a medida que envejecen. Esta hoja informativa fue creada por la Dra. Amelie ...
