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Prostate Cancer and Screening for African American men |
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Working with the American Cancer Society, students worked at a table at the African American Health fair at St. Mary’s Hospital educating people about epidemiology, etiology, risk factors, diagnosis, and follow-up involved in prostate cancer. Project targeted African American males |
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Preventing Heart Disease in Local African Refugees |
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Examines the prevalence of cardiovascular disease and risk factors in the Rochester, NY African refugee population by interviewing local clinicians and refugees, offers outline of how subjective data was gathered to best screen and prevent heart disease in this population, outlines Health fair held in Rochester for African refugees |
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Women on the Margins: Racial Disparities In Health Care and The Women’s Health Education Group of Sojourner House |
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Worked in The Women’s Health Education Group of Sojourner House in Rochester, NY |
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Community Stroke Education: Symptom Awareness, Emergency Response, and Risk Behavior Modificiation |
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Gives background on stroke prevalence in women and outline plan and execution of a speech given by the author aimed at imparting basic information about stroke, common warning signs, and ways to reduce risk. |
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Stroke Educational Intervention in a Rochester Community |
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Reviews Literature about past community educational interventions on stroke and describes an intervention completed by author and partner at the NAACP, Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield and Faith Community Alliance African-American Community Health fair in September, 2003, in Rochester, NY |
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Stroke Awareness and Primary Prevention |
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Assesses the background knowledge on the signs and symptoms of stroke in a selected community in Rochester, NY. Outlines methods of community education regarding stroke education used at the African American Health Fair in downtown Rochester, NY. |
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Partnership in Action: Colorectal Cancer Screening Interventions |
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Worked with the Women’s Health partnership in a program where mailings are sent to places of worship in Livingston county regarding colorectal screening recommendations, symptoms, and services provided by the Women’s Health Partnership. Worked in the St. Mary’s African American health fair, distributing information on mammography, self breast exams, WHP services, and colorectal cancer. Also partnered with Highland Hospital Breast Care Center to improve breast cancer awareness |
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Hypertension |
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Childhood Obesity Education for AA outh At a Local Health Fair |
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Targeting Stroke, Addressing Healthcare Disparities in the African American Community |
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Project providing cardiovascular education to Rochester’s minority communities through three different venues. |
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Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in the Rochester Community with Focus on Women |
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Project designed to promote cardiovascular awareness in women in the Rochester community through the patients understanding of blood pressure and BMI numbers, risk for cardiovascular disease, and a heart healthy lifestyle. |
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Food Insecurity in Rochester: Facing the Challenges of the Holiday Season |
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Creation of a cookbook with cheap easy recipes for low socioeconomic status individuals. Student partnered with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Monroe County to maximize distribution. |
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Diabetes Research, Education and Disease Management |
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The aim of the project is to reduce the disease and economic burden of diabetes by reducing the knowledge disparity of the patients who receive their care at the Anthony L. Jordan Health Center. The program educates patients about diabetes and its management |
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Health Promotion Project for Gowa Village in Malawi |
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The long term goal of the project is to develop a program in antenatal care that will be sustained by the local population without outside aid. All phases of the project to date have been reviewed and approved by the University of Rochester Research Subjects Review Board. |
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Promoting Exercise in Type I and Type II Diabetics an Educational Workshop |
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An educational workshop focusing on exercise as a means to prevent and manage diabetes was held for patients at the Anthony L. Jordan Health Center. |
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Promoting Healthy Eating Habits among Type I and Type II Diabetics: An Educational Workshop |
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A nutrition workshop was organized and conducted for patients of the Anthony L. Jordan Health Center as part of a monthly Diabetes Education Group meeting. |
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Empowering Women through the Sojourner House Health Lifestyles Project |
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This project was based at the Sojourner House, an agency which provides transitional housing to high-risk women. An evaluation component was instituted to an existing program, to assess changes in participants’ knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and feelings of self-efficacy. Key partners included AIDS Rochester, AHA, ACS, and Planned Parenthood. |
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Youth Anti-Violence Campaign |
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Partnerships with the OME, School 7, the Rochester Police Department, the Pirate Toy Fund, and Finger Lakes Restorative Justice, an anti-violence campaign was created and implemented at School 7. Additionally, the Rochester Medical Students Against Violence group was re-started to carry on this message in the future. |
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Childhood Lead Poisoning Education |
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A DVD on lead education was shown to clients at Jordan Health Center, ABC, Healthy Start, and the BEST Program and distributed to other community partners. By targeting communities with the greatest burden of childhood lead poisoning, an important difference was made to families that need the most intervention. |
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Blood Pressure Patterns among Ghanaian Immigrants Residing in the Bronx |
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In partnering with a Kidney and Hypertension Center of Rochester, along with the Kittay House Jewish Home of the Bronx, this community was reached through home/work visits for blood pressure screening and education. |
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Lifestyles Improvement For Everyone (L.I.F.E) |
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The purpose behind creating this program was to address both of the goals of Healthy People 2010, focusing primarily on but not limited to battling overweight and obesity with improvements in nutrition and physical activity. |
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Strong Stories: HIV/AIDS in Rochester, An African-American Woman's Perspective |
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We intended to develop a 30min segment for 'Strong Stories', titled ‘HIV/AIDS in Rochester: An African American Woman’s Perspective.’ The show will interview three African American women living with HIV in the Rochester community. The interview questions will focus on support, stigma, and HIV prevention strategies. Once completed, the video will be incorporated into HIV/AIDS outreach programs run by the Student National Medical Association. |
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Hoops for Health |
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The Hoops for Health after school program was created to target those children at greatest risk. With the help of coordinators at Quad A, a partnership was created with students at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and School 34 staff, ultimately leading to the development of the Hoops for Health program in 2003. |
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HIV/AIDS in Rochester: An African American and Latino Women's Perspective |
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In order to reach out to young women in Rochester, a documentary was produced titled: HIV/ AIDS in Rochester: An African American and Latino Women’s Perspective. The documentary will be about the lives of three women of color in Rochester, who have been infected with HIV. The women will share their life experiences pertaining to HIV/AIDS with regard to how it affects them, their families and their community’s. |
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Food, Fitness & Fun |
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The aim of this project is to educate children in fourth-sixth grade about diet and exercise and hopefully to have fun while battling pediatric obesity. With the help of a graphic designer in the community, computerized educational modules were created on pediatric obesity that can be implemented into any health class around the country, provided that there are computers available. |
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The Hair Salon Project: Bringing a Lay Health Education Model to Tonja's Personal Touch Salon |
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This project aimed to introduce a lay health education model into a salon serving African American women in the Southwedge neighborhood of Rochester. This program was tested in a focus group and was well received by community members. |
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