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New Year, New Resources
What better way to start 2010 than by resolving to stock your nursing toolbox with a new supply of resources for improving the health of culturally diverse patients and communities
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Comic Strip Helps Raise Diabetes Awareness in the Hispanic Community
To help spread the word about this serious health threat, Baldo co-creators Hector Cantú and Carlos Castellanos partnered with the National Alliance for Hispanic Health
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Hispanic Health Information Is Just a Phone Call Away
Hispanics continue to face substantial health disparities, including underinsurance, a lack of linguistically and culturally competent health care providers, and disproportionately high rates of serious chronic diseases such as asthma, diabetes, cancer and HIV/AIDS.
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Internet to Provide Health Care Information to Hispanics
Because the number of Hispanics with access to the Internet continues to increase several times faster than for any other minority group, providing health care information online is quickly becoming an effective way to reach Spanish speaking health consumers.
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Fair Care Act to Help the Uninsured
According to a report by the U.S. Bureau of the Census, although the number of Americans who are without health insurance declined since 1998, Hispanics and other racial and ethnic groups continue to comprise a disproportionate number of the overall uninsured.
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A Harvest of Hope
Meet five Hispanic nurses who are making a difference in improving the quality of health care for migrant farm workers
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Researchers Identify Gene for Type 2 Diabetes in Mexican Americans
The recent discovery of the major susceptibility gene for type 2 diabetes in Mexican Americans—10.6% of whom are inflicted with the disease—is being hailed as a major accomplishment. This finding, previously considered a genetic impossibility, will ultimately result in medical advancement for the treatment of type 2 diabetes.
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DaimlerChrysler Donates Safety Seats to Save Minority Kids’ Lives
Each year, thousands of children in the U.S. are killed or injured in car accidents because they were not riding in child safety seats or because the seats were not installed properly - and a disproportionate amount of those children are African American or Hispanic.
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Is Healthy People 2010 Ignoring Hispanics?
The ambitious goal of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)’ Healthy People 2010 program is to ensure good health and long life for all Americans...
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New Kidney Disease Detection Guidelines Target Minority Patients
According to the National Kidney Foundation (NKF), one in nine adults in the U.S. has chronic kidney disease (CKD), yet most of them are undiagnosed and are not receiving medical treatment.
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Hispanics Get “A+” in Diabetes Awareness But “F” in Diabetes Action
A new survey sponsored by the American Heart Association contains good news and bad news for nurses who are working to eliminate diabetes health disparities in Hispanic communities.
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Groundbreaking HIV Prevention Campaign Targets Latino Gay Community
The colorful, bilingual advertisements first began to appear on San Francisco mass-transit buses in June. The messages and images they contain are simple but bold.
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Speakers Kit Promotes Lung Health in Minorities
As lung disease-related deaths continue to rise in the United States, so do the number of racial and ethnic minorities affected by this serious health problem—a number that is disproportionately higher than for non-minorities. To help nurses and other health professionals educate African-American, Hispanic and other minority communities about the importance of lung health, the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) has developed an online speakers kit that can be downloaded from the ACCP’s Web site at www.chestnet.org/minorities.
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Muscular Dystrophy Research and Prevention Targets Hispanics
A rare form of muscular dystrophy previously thought to affect mostly French Canadians and an ethnic group in Israel known as Bukhara Jews has been discovered in a group of Hispanic families in New Mexico, reports the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA).
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Get All the Facts About the National Alliance for Hispanic Health
The National Alliance for Hispanic Health was founded in 1973 by a group of mental health professionals to improve the treatment of Hispanics by the mental health system. Within a few short years, the group had expanded its mission to addressing the health care needs of Hispanic families. Thirty-one years later its mission is multifaceted and includes helping consumers and providers, as well as promoting the appropriate use of technology, improving the science base for accurate decision making, and promoting philanthropy.
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Get all the facts about the Minority Health Professions Foundation
One of the Alliance's missions is to raise 'cultural proficiency' among providers. What does the term mean and why is it significant in the medical treatment of Hispanics?
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Helping Hispanics Learn Their Family Health Histories: On the Computer. . .
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Sickle-Cell Pain Management Guidelines at a Glance
For Americans who suffer from sickle-cell disease, which occurs primarily in African Americans and Hispanics of Caribbean ancestry, this incurable, inherited blood disorder is synonymous with extreme pain...
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