Health Disparities

• Active Living in Latino Communities
  April 2008
  The April issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine includes an essay by Dr. George Flores, MD, MPH, of The California Endowment on Active Living in Latino Communities. The article can be read on-line at:
  www.activelivingresearch.org/files/17_AJPM08_Flores.pdf
• Interactive Food and Beverage Marketing: Targeting Children and Youth in the Digital Age
  2007
  Berkeley Media Studies Group findings highlight how unregulated marketing practices via new technology target children and youth to entice them to eat poorly. The Berkeley Media Studies Group is a project of the Public Health Institute. The report can be read on-line at:
  http://digitalads.org
• Obesity in Latino Communities: Prevention, Principles, and Action
  December 2006
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• One out of Three Latino Adolescents Overweight or At Risk
  April 2005
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• Reducing Health Disparities - Roles of the Health Sector: Recommended Policy Directions and Activities - Report from Canada
  Canada has released their report containing policy recommendations with respect to the roles of the health sector in addressing health disparities. Major health disparities exist throughout Canada, and there is an increasing emphasis in Canada, as elsewhere, on the need to adopt policies and take other actions to reduce them. The report can be downloaded or read on-line at:
  www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/ph-sp/disparities/dr_policy_e.html
• Obesity, Health Disparties, and Prevention Paradigms: Hard Questions and Hard Choices
  The October issue of Preventing Chronic Disease includes an essay by Shiriki Kumanyika, PhD, MPH, on Obesity, Health Disparities, and Prevention Paradigms: Hard Questions and Hard Choices.
  www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2005/oct/toc.htm
• California County Report Outlines Strategies to Reduce Childhood Obesity
  The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors released a report detailing several strategies to reduce weight gain among children. The "Blueprint for Prevention of Childhood Obesity: A Call to Action," offers action plans in five areas, including the community, schools, after school, preschool/child care services, and healthcare. The Report can be found on the County of San Mateo Health Department Web Site at:
  Download: Blueprint for Prevention of Childhood Obesity: A Call to Action [3.8MB pdf file]