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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 Outreach and Education Services for the Under- and Uninsured |
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Student worked with the Women’s Health Partnership in Rochester, NY to help under and uninsured women deal with all issues involving breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer. |
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Occupational injury in Migrant Farm Workers: development of instructional materials for the clinician treating migrant farm workers |
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Project aimed at adding a back injury and dermatitis module to the NYCAMH. |
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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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Migrant Women and Post-Partum Depression |
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Finger Lakes Migrant Health Outreach: An Evaluation |
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Primary Prevention of Diabetes in Hispanic Migrant Farmworkers |
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Skin Cancer Awareness in the Migrant Population |
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Mi Libro de Cocina Muy Propio! |
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Project attempts to combat childhood obesity with the creation of a children’s cookbook, written in Spanish, filled with easy, healthy recipes. Project also includes a hands on healthy cooking demonstration for children and their parents. |
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Action for Heart Health in Latin American and the Caribbean |
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Creation of a document aimed at increasing education and awareness on heart health in Latin America and the Caribbean. |
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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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Improving Access to Healthcare in the Migrant Farm Worker Community |
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Project affiliated with the Finger Lakes Migrant Health Care Project at La Clinica to teach students about challenges of health for the Latino community and improve Spanish language skills. |
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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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Addressing the Gap: University of Rochester's Latino Health Curriculum |
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Due to the well-documented gap in health outcomes that arises from lingual and cultural barriers between physicians and their patients, this four-year curriculum encourages a three-pronged approach to language and cultural competency. |
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Medical Student Migrant Health Outreach Project |
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La Clinica is an outreach health service reaching Wayne County, NY migrant workers. After a needs assessment with outreach workers and Mexican migrant workers, camp visits served to improving health awareness, increase access to care, and build partnerships between University of Rochester medical students, La Clinica, farmers, and migrant workers. |
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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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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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Small Business Opportunities for Women in Rural Honduras |
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The primary goal of this project is to increase small business opportunities for women in rural Honduras and to collect baseline health data to measure the efficacy of the planned intervention. |
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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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