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Where to Locate Schools? What to Consider – and Why It Matters
01 month ago
Forty years ago, nearly half of all students walked or biked to school. Now, only 14 percent do.
Why the change?
One major factor is school siting, the decisions school leaders make about where to build or rehabilitate schools. Over the past several decades, schools have increasingly been built on the outskirts of communities, too far from children’s homes for walking or biking to be practical. Meanwhile, obesity rates in children and adolescents have more than tripled, and a third of children are overweight or obese.
Locating schools closer to where families live can make it easier for kids to walk and bike to school—and more convenient for families to use school fields and other facilities after hours, when school is closed. When it comes to ethnicity and socioeconomic status, however, few neighborhoods are well integrated, which means students in neighborhood-based schools can be highly segregated, too.
But there are lots of ways to support both walkable and diverse schools. To help districts nationwide make school siting decisions that support their students’ health and educational success, Public Health Law & Policy has just released a set of model school siting policies and other materials.
Download these tools today, and contact their team for more information.
VIDEO: What Is the Single Best Thing You Can Do for Your Health?
04 months ago
by admin
in Healthy Lifestyles
We at SaludToday would encourage you to watch this video that puts a unique spin on answering the question: What is the single best thing we can do for our health?
The video comes from Dr. Mike Evans, founder of the Health Design Lab at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, associate professor of family medicine and public health at the University of Toronto, and a staff physician at St. Michael’s Hospital.
VIDEO: Expert Addresses Crossroads of Poverty, Communication and Health
01 year ago
by admin
in Research/News
Watch the Speech by Dr. K. "Vish" Viswanath
Dr. K. “Vish” Viswanath, an E-health expert at Harvard School of Public Health and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, addressed the critical crossroads of poverty, communication and health on April 21, 2011, at the Cancer Therapy and Research Center (CTRC) in San Antonio as part of the SALSI/CTRC Health Disparities Lecture Series.
Viswanath’s pointed out severe disparities in use of communication mediums—the Internet, TV, cell phones, social media, etc.—among racial/ethnic, less educated and lower income populations.
He said it’s important to consider these populations when designing communications.
Watch video of his talk here.
The SALSI/CTRC Health Disparities Lecture Series, sponsored by the San Antonio Life Sciences Institute (SALSI) and the CTRC, brings some of the top U.S. health disparities experts to San Antonio to offer the latest trends, tools and advancements in the fight against cancer health disparities. The series is a joint project of the Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR) at The UT Health Science Center at San Antonio and UT San Antonio.
The series launched in October 2010 with disparities expert Rena Pasick. Other past lecturers include Lloyd Potter, Paula Braveman and Isabel Scarinci.
The next lecture features cancer prevention expert Dr. Karen Emmons of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at 4 p.m. May 5, 2011, at the Mabee Conference Room on the 4th floor of the CTRC, 7979 Wurzbach in San Antonio.
Watch all the lectures here.
‘Buena Salud’ Book Series Tackles Latino Health, Diabetes & More
01 year ago
The new Buena Salud book series presents the latest Latino health information and medical advances about individual diseases and conditions in a warm and conversational tone.
Written by Dr. Jane L. Delgado, president and CEO of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health, the series sprinkles real-life stories throughout and are published simultaneously in English and Spanish to inform, support, and deliver advice that will guide a Latino readership towards better care of their health.
The series launches with books on the top two health concerns for U.S. Latinos: heart disease and diabetes.
Watch a WKYC-TV news report on the book series here or below:
Funding Opportunity: Mobilizing Action Toward Community Health
01 year ago
by admin
in Research/News
A new community grants program from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), Mobilizing Action Toward Community Health (MATCH), will help spark action in communities to address the many factors that influence health.
As the recent County Health Rankings illustrate, social and economic factors, such as education and employment, can affect health directly and indirectly, and those negative effects may accumulate over individuals’ lifetimes and continue unbroken through generations.
The first round of the community grants program is open to communities that are ready to take action to address the social and economic factors that affect health—factors which have a significant impact on health outcomes, yet are often ignored in community health improvement activities.
Grantees will receive up to $200,000 over 24 months. Go here for more info.
April 27 is the deadline for receipt of brief proposals.
New State Scorecard on Children’s Health Care Finds Wide Geographic Disparities
11 year ago
by admin
in Research/News
Listen to a Podcast: "Covering and Caring for Kids"
Across U.S. states, wide differences persist in coverage rates, affordability of health care, children’s receipt of preventive care and treatment, and their opportunity to lead healthy lives, according to a new Commonwealth Fund state-by-state scorecard on how the health care system is working for children.
The scorecard found that children in the five top-ranked states—Iowa, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, and New Hampshire—are more likely to be insured and to receive recommended medical and dental check-ups than children in poorer-performing states like Florida, Texas, Arizona, Mississippi, or Nevada.
Check out an interactive map and podcasts with more detailed information.
The Latino Perspective on World Diabetes Day on Nov. 14
01 year ago
CDC Diabetes Resources
The Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR) at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio is joining others around the nation to improve Latino health as we recognize World Diabetes Day and on Nov. 14.
Diabetes and obesity are some of top health issues facing Latinos in South Texas.
The IHPR’s South Texas Health Status Review identified obesity and diabetes disparities in the region, our Salud America! network targets Latino childhood obesity, and our SaludToday blog continues to highlight the latest research in these areas.
Find out more about our efforts to improve Latino health here.
National Latino Family Expo
01 year ago
by admin
in Research/News
The National Council of La Raza will present a family expo Saturday, Sunday and Monday at the Henry B Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio.
It is free and open to the general public.
The expo hall will be divided into seven different pavilions, allowing participants to experience a variety of activities in theme areas including community, culture and history, technology and environment and health and fitness, which will feature cooking demonstrations, health screenings focusing on vision, lung health, and blood pressure, and group exercise classes.
Career resources will include networking opportunities and access to more than 20 national and local companies with job opportunities.
Go here for more information.
Neighborhood Has Huge Influence on Health of Latino, Black Boys and Young Men
01 year ago
New research funded by The California Endowment finds that African-American and Latino boys and young men are much more likely to experience poor health outcomes than white boys and young men.
Most of these differences in health are directly related to the neighborhoods where they grow up.
“This research shows that the health of African-American and Latino boys stems from their neighborhoods, their schools, their environments being unhealthy,” said Robert Phillips of The California Endowment. “According to the research, place and policy clearly matter to the health of these boys and young men. If we truly want to address the health issues they face, California needs to put its support behind public policies and programs that advocate for comprehensive, community-based solutions.”
To improve health outcomes for boys and young men, researchers suggest the need for systems-based solutions that are implemented at the community level.
Read more about the study here.
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Gloria Huerta
Where is the Spanish language version of this blog or is there one? I work with Spanish-only speaking communities. Thank you! Maybe that […]
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