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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 comes in. Screening for the non-medical drivers of health is a questionnaire given ...
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Webinar Series: Let’s Improve Health in South Texas and Beyond
We want Latinos and 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 ...
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5 Reasons to Pledge to Complete CDC Project Firstline Training on Infection Control!
When you practice infection control consistently and confidently, it can help stop the spread of disease in healthcare settings and save lives. This is why you and all frontline healthcare providers can publicly pledge to take training through the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention’s Project Firstline program. Project Firstline is a training and education ...
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Write a Medical School Oath to Fight for All People!
Medical students start their journey to be a doctor with an ethical oath. But the classic Hippocratic Oath and other versions are missing doctors’ modern obligations for all people. You can use the Salud America! action pack, “Write a Medical School Oath to Fight for All People,” to write your own medical school oath to ...
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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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Check Out Resources on Infection Control from CDC Project Firstline!
We love our frontline healthcare workers. That’s why we are excited to share Project Firstline, a training and education collaborative from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to ensure all healthcare workers, no matter their role or educational background, have the infection control knowledge and understanding they need and deserve to protect ...
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Health Care Workers: Find If You Have Implicit Bias & What to Do Next!
Doctors have implicit, subconscious preferences for white patients over those of color, studies show. This is implicit bias. These biases — stereotypes that affect our understanding and decisions about others beyond our conscious control — lead to discrimination and health disparities. Fortunately, implicit bias can be “rewired” for compassion for patients of color. Download the ...
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Discover the State of Health Equity in Your Community!
Wonder what health equity looks like in your community? Select your county name and get a customized Health Equity 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 equity issues compared to your state and nation. The Health ...
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Start ‘Handle With Care’ to Help Kids Who Face Trauma, Even If Schools Are Closed!
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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Ideas for Action

Over 530 People Spoke Up for Racial Equity and Diversity in Research!
Over 530 members of Salud America! endorsed our public comment to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in their Reque…
Overcoming Harmful Biases
Tell Federal Highway Administration (FHWA): Overhaul Transportation Engineering Standards to Integrate Public Health
What we engineer and build impacts public health, safety, and welfare. However, transportation engineering prioritizes c…
Transportation & Mobility
Tell CDC: Add Social Risk Codes to Better Classify Disease Diagnoses, Symptoms (ICD-10-CM)
Social risk contributes significantly to poor health. These social risks—also known as social determinants of health—inc…
Healthy Food, Housing, Transportation & Mobility, Understanding & Reducing Poverty
Find Out If You Have Implicit Bias and What to Do Next!
Many people think they harbor no bias toward other people. Or they believe they know their biases and don’t act on them….
Overcoming Harmful Biases
Comment Now: Urge Against Pesticide Deregulation!
Despite the swearing-in of President Joe Biden, a proposed rule from former president Donald Trump is still in the works…
Chemical & Toxic Exposure
Mil Gracias for Not Smoking Indoors!
By choosing to not smoke indoors, a smoker deserves a thank-you for protecting their family, friends, and neighbors from…
Chemical & Toxic Exposure, Quit Smoking