The average person has 8 pints of blood in their body. Health practitioners use about 40,000 pints of blood...every. single. day. There is a dramatic need for blood donations to help save lives, but fewer than 1 in 10 people actually donate. Latinos comprise less than 1% of all blood donors, bad news because experts say Latinos tend to have extremely important blood types. How can Latinos get more involved? On Tuesday, March 21, 2017, let’s use #SaludTues to tweet on why blood donation is vital, myths about donation, and strategies and resources on how to get more Latinos to donate blood: WHAT: #SaludTues Tweetchat: “Giving Life: Latinos & Blood Donation”
TIME/DATE: 1-2 p.m. ET (Noon-1 p.m. CT), Tuesday, Mar. 14, 2017
WHERE: On Twitter with hashtag ...
The University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) is the only university in the UC system exclusively focused on health science and includes two hospitals. As the second largest employer in San Francisco, UCSF feels a close tie to the bay area community, where Latinos make up 23% of residents. UCSF recently announced a new way they will be setting a healthy example on campus and off. Starting July 1, UCSF will start phasing in a program to sell only zero-calorie beverages or non-sweetened drinks with nutritional value, such as milk and 100 percent juice, and will phase out the sale of sugar-sweetened beverages in its onsite cafeterias and food vendors, vending machines and retail locations. According to research assessed by the UCSF-led SugarScience project, Americans ...
Hospitals can be a role model in the community, a trusted source for information not only about healing sickness but about healthy living. In San Antonio, TX, where over half the population is Latino, one hospital has decided to step-up their role as a health care provider for children in the community. The Children’s Hospital of San Antonio is partnering with the Culinary Institute of America in San Antonio (CIA), the Goldsbury Foundation, and H-E-B, to begin a new culinary health and education program aimed at reducing childhood obesity and improving access to nutritious food for patients of the Hospital and the community at large. According to a press release on June 4th, 2014, the program will provide a comprehensive and carefully designed approach to childhood health and ...
Cal State Northridge has released a short Spanish-language documentary exploring options for end-of-life care, the Post-Periodical reports. The video, a project by Kyusuk “Stephan” Chung, an associate professor of health administration at Cal State Northridge, is about a dying patient in the late stages of Alzheimer’s disease who turned to hospice care so she could spend her last days at home among loved ones. It is entirely in Spanish, designed to educate the Latino community, which may not know that end-of-life care options extend beyond putting a dying loved one in the hospital or family members struggling on their own to care for that person at home. “I have spent more than 10 years researching end-of-life care, and in particular hospice care,” said Chung, according ...
Some doctors' offices and health clinics across the country have tried a new approach to get at-risk kids, many of which are Latino, to eat healthier foods: providing them with "prescriptions" with which they can buy fruits and vegetables at the grocery store. Two HealthPartners clinics in Minnesota are piloting a new program to see if fresh produce prescriptions would indeed encourage healthier eating in overweight and obese young patients. Participating doctors will issue the prescriptions to at-risk children ages 5 to 12 and encourage them to try some new foods. Area supermarkets accept the prescriptions and track the varieties of produce purchased. The prescriptions are actually just vouchers funded by HealthPartners, rather than formal scripts, but the idea is to ...
How healthy is your county? Find out how your county stacks up in child poverty, college attendance, smoking, physical activity, and preventable hospital says in the new 2014 County Health Rankings, an annual report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. The report examined some new categories this year, according to the USA Today: Almost one out of five U.S. families live in housing with severe problems, such as overcrowding, insufficient cooking and bathing facilities or costs above 50% of family income.
About 76% of workers drive to work alone, in part because of limited public transit systems and neighborhoods without sidewalks or safe crosswalks. This contributes to obesity and pollution.
About 30% ...
A 2011 study done by Dayton Children's Hospital found 37 percent of children in the region are overweight or obese. These sobering statistics motivated them to start making healthy changes in their own system. Beginning in May 2014, Dayton Children's Hospital will stop selling sugary drinks at all its locations. The new policy applies to the main campus and its outpatient care centers in Springboro and Middletown. The hospital said it includes the cafeteria, gift shop, vending machines, patient room service and on-site catering. The hospital said the move supports its mission to improve the health of children and their families. The change is part of a larger movement across the country of children's hospitals ensuring that patients have the best nutrition possible while on ...
Hispanics make up almost two-thirds of people living in South Los Angeles, a community where chronic disease rates are high and fresh, affordable food is hard to find. A partnership between a family health clinic and a local non-profited focused on getting folks good food has led to doctors at the clinic writing prescriptions for a new kind of medicine: fresh fruits and vegetables. St. John's Well Child and Family Center has partnered with Community Services Unlimited to run weekly produce stands at two of its sites for patients, families and clinic staff. Besides making healthy food available, doctors are writing their patients "prescriptions" to purchase the produce. The prescriptions reinforce the fact that diet can be as important as medication when it comes to feeling ...
A hospital should be a place where the healthy choice is always the easiest choice, but that's not often the case.Many hospitals across the country fill their food courts with pizza, burgers, and junk food vending machines. Talk about mixed messages! The Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA), with support for the First Lady's Let's Move! initiative, has asked hospitals across the United States to clean up their act and start serving healthier, more delicious food. In early March, 400 more hospitals have stood up to make a change. This means that as many as 550 hospitals will now be participating in the program ...
