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Help People Solve Their NMDoH Problems in San Antonio!
Wherever you live, learn, work, and grow in San Antonio, the non-medical drivers of health (NMDOH) can ultimately shape your health outcomes. NMDoH issues include access to affordable housing, healthy food, reliable transportation, education, healthcare, income level, and more. If we can identify and address NMDoH, we can create a healthier future for all. Download ...
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How to Start Screening for the Non-Medical Drivers of Health
To truly improve patient and community health, we must address the non-medical drivers of health, such as access to housing, transportation, and food that can make it harder for people to stay healthy. That’s where screening for the non-medical drivers of health (NMDoH) comes in. Screening for the non-medical drivers of health is a questionnaire ...
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Webinar Series: Let’s Improve Health in South Texas and Beyond
We want all people to be as healthy as possible. How can we reach this ideal, especially as we face high rates of cancer and chronic disease and many people struggle with access to clinical trials, income, health care, food, housing, and other issues? You’re invited to a webinar series, “Let’s Improve Health in South ...
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Volunteer for a Clinical Trial for Your Familia!
Cancer and Alzheimer’s hurt many of our abuelos, moms, dads, and others we love. Clinical trials help us fight for our familia. Clinical trials are studies that help researchers learn more to help slow, manage, and treat Alzheimer’s and cancer for current and future family members. But without Latino volunteers for clinical trials, the benefits ...
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Help Your City Adopt Smoke-Free Multifamily Housing!
People who live in multifamily housing share air with their neighbors ─ including secondhand smoke. Secondhand smoke contains over 70 cancer-causing chemicals, and has killed over 2.5 million people. The dangers are especially serious in multifamily housing, where secondhand smoke can travel through doorways, halls, windows, ventilation systems, electrical outlets, and gaps around fixtures. Download ...
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Discover the State of Health in Your Community!
Wonder what health looks like in your community? Select your county name and get a customized Health Report Card from Salud America! at UT Health San Antonio, which shows your area stacks up in housing, transit, poverty, health care, food, and other health issues compared to your state and nation. The Health Report Card auto-generates ...
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Start ‘Handle With Care’ to Help Kids Who Face Issues at Home!
Some kids witness domestic violence or murder. Some see loved ones hurt in accidents. These kids still have to go to class or carry on while school is out for summer or due to a pandemic. They face a burden of stress and trauma that can interfere with their behavior and grades—and schools often aren’t even ...
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New Action Pack: How to Start a School Food Pantry
About 1 in 6 children are food insecure. They don’t know where their next meal is coming from. Fortunately, your school can help these students! The new Salud America! “School Food Pantry Action Pack” is a free guide to help school personnel talk to decision-makers, work through logistics, and start a School Food Pantry to ...
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New Action Pack: Help Your School Support Students!
About half of U.S. children suffer abuse, poverty, parental incarceration. These kids face deep physical and mental scars that impair development, learning, and health. How can schools support and help students dealing with these issues? The new Salud America! “Help Your School Support Students Action Pack” is a free guide with coaching to help school ...
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Ideas for Action

Salud America! Network Sends 2,028 Emails to Protect Groundwater!
As part of their more significant trend of weakening environmental rules, the EPA announced a reduction in groundwater p…
Chemical & Toxic Exposure, Water
Texas Adopts Goal to End Traffic Deaths by 2050
At least one person has been killed in a traffic crash in Texas every day since Nov. 7, 2000. That’s why Vision Zero Tex…
Transportation & Mobility
Tell USGS: Don’t Ignore Long-Term Climate Change Projections
In a seemingly coordinated effort to minimize climate change concerns, the Trump administration is reducing environmenta…
Chemical & Toxic Exposure
Ohio Approves New Social and Emotional Learning Standards in Schools!
The Ohio State School Board this week approved social and emotional learning (SEL) standards to apply to students in K-1…
ACES, Education
Tell EPA: Close the Water Pollution Loophole!
In another move to reduce clean water protections, the EPA plans to enact another ruling that will make it easier for co…
Chemical & Toxic Exposure, Water
EPA Receives Over 450,000 Clean Air Comments
In another attempt to roll back environmental protections, the EPA is proposing to revise the Mercury and Air Toxics Sta…
Air Quality, Chemical & Toxic Exposure