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Get involved to improve health for Latino and all families with our action campaigns, action packs, and Salud Health Report Cards on the health of your town!

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

16,000+ People Call to Update ‘Dangerous’ Federal Vehicle Safety Ratings
More than 16,000 concerned Americans sent public comments to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)…
Transportation & Mobility
Tell NASEM: Add Urban Planning Scholars to New Committee on Policies Impacting Health Equity
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) has nominated an ad hoc committee to review federa…
Housing, Transportation & Mobility
Comment: Tell Government to Consider People Walking in Vehicle Safety Rating System
With roads designed to favor cars and the growing size of megacars – SUVs and passenger trucks – it’s no surprise traffi…
Transportation & Mobility
Women Comment on How COVID-19 Is Impacting Women’s Health
The National Institute of Health (NIH) Office of Research on Women’s Health is seeking comments on how to improve treatm…
COVID-19
Comment Now: Increase Latino Representation in Alzheimer’s Clinical Trials!
The National Institute of Aging (NIA) is seeking comments and suggestions on how it can implement community-based resear…
Clinical Trials, Dementia
Watch Webinar: How to Work with Local Leaders to Declare a Big Issue a Public Health Crisis
Decades of explicit and implicit racism in social, economic, and political systems have led to inequitable outcomes in c…
Increasing Recognition