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Pediatric Obesity: Promoting nutrition and Physical Fitness in a Rural Elementary School |
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Project aimed at educating 5th graders at Red Jacket Elementary School in Ontario County, NY about proper nutrition and exercise. At the time Ontario County was considered a medically underserved area by the U.S. Department of Health. |
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Migrant Women and Post-Partum Depression |
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Discrepancy of CV Risk Factors Between Urban & Suburban Communities |
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Primary Prevention of Diabetes in Hispanic Migrant Farmworkers |
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Assessing Discrepancies in Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Implementation, and Education Among Urban, Suburban, and Rural Communities in Monroe County |
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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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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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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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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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