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Who won the #SaludHeroes video voting contest of January 2015?
Jeff Anderson and other parents joined with school and community leaders to push for new school district transportation policies that made it easier and safer for kids to “bike train” or walk to school in Fairfax, Va., which has a growing Latino population.
Or watch their video! It received the most votes in our contest, which ran Jan. 13-27, 2015.
And stay tuned for new voting contests from Salud America! The RWJF Research Network to Prevent Obesity Among Latino Children, which aims to activate and inform the public, groups and policymakers targeting Latino childhood obesity.
The network is a project of the Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR) at The UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, the team behind SaludToday.
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Maternal & Child HealthBy The Numbers
20.7
percent
of Latino kids have obesity (compared to 11.7% of white kids)