Health

The teen birth rate in the United States fell to its lowest level ever in 2005, according to the latest birth statistics for the nation, released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The Human Rights Campaign and the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association announced a first-of-its-kind tool to rate the healthcare industry on how it treats its gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) patients and to educate the GLBT community about what to expect from healthcare providers and facilities.

On Friday, December 1st, Latinos in Los Angeles will come together to observe World AIDS Day. The event is organized by BIENESTAR, the largest Latino community based organization in the United States committed to meeting the needs of people living with HIV/AIDS and those most at risk for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company in cooperation with the National AIDS Fund launched the third annual “Light to Unite” campaign in support of World AIDS Day. This year’s “Light to Unite” program shines a light on the devastating impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in underserved communities throughout the United States.

As World AIDS Day approaches on December 1, 2006, commemorating the thousands that have died of AIDS in the last 25 years, the Latino Coalition Against AIDS, a broad coalition of Latino political, government and community leaders, calls on policymakers, the health industry and community leaders to address the growing concerns of HIV infected immigrants and the potential barriers to effective drug treatments and prevention programs that have been successful in delaying the onset of AIDS for other communities.

Aetna announced that it is offering health care providers, including physicians and nurses, and its internal clinical employees free access to the online, evidence-based courses, Quality Interactions: a Patient-Based Approach to Cross-Cultural Care.

By resolution 54/134 of 17 December 1999, the General Assembly designated 25 November as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and invited governments, international organizations and NGOs to organize activities designated to raise public awareness of the problem on that day. Women’s activists have marked 25 November as a day against violence since 1981. This date came from the brutal assassination in 1960, of the three Mirabal sisters, political activists in the Dominican Republic, on orders of Dominican ruler Rafael Trujillo (1930-1961). We at HispanicAd.com bring you this article in the hopes that you will read the content and also view a commercial to experience what a women potentially goes through after violent attack.

A new white paper by the National Council of La Raza-California State University Long Beach Center for Latino Community Health, Evaluation, and Leadership Training (NCLR-CSULB Center for Latino Health), Redefining HIV/AIDS for Latinos: A Promising New Paradigm for Addressing HIV/AIDS in the Hispanic Community, notes that HIV/AIDS is a health issue affecting virtually every segment of the Latino population and calls for a “new paradigm” to address the issue.

Older people experience much less stress than any other demographic group

We live in a world with many sources of stress, with many things to do and to worry about. These include the pressures of life at work and at home, problems with money, health, loneliness, children and privacy.

Did you know that 54 percent, or about one in two, Latino pregnancies is unplanned?

This rate is higher than for white/non-Hispanic pregnancies. The difference can be attributed to social, cultural and economic factors affecting the family-planning decisions and reproductive health of Latino couples. New research conducted by the National Council of La Raza, with support from Berlex, Inc., sheds light on the sexual and reproductive health among Latino couples in the United States, including a lack of knowledge about contraceptive options.

A national survey released reveals that Hispanics engage in healthy behaviors to manage stress, such as exercising and seeking support from family and friends, more than the general U.S. population, but that stress is still a major health concern for this group. While Hispanics cite many sources of stress in their lives, the leading source of stress — particularly for Hispanic women — is concern for the health of family members. Similar to others in the United States, money and work are also significant sources of stress for Hispanics.

A recent survey by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) found a significant lack of knowledge and understanding among Hispanics about the warning signs, causes, and effective treatments for mental illnesses, such as depression. Two in five Hispanics—42 percent—report knowing only a little or almost nothing at all about mental illnesses. But asked whether they would benefit from knowing more about the warning signs of mental illnesses, 84 percent said yes.

As the U.S. population mushrooms by about 25 million a decade, a national Hispanic physicians group is sounding the alarm bell that unless the nation recruits and trains more medical students now, Americans will face a critical shortage of doctors in 2020 when aging baby boomers will most need medical care.

MarketTools announced its Hispanic Reach Health and Wellness Study, the first comprehensive syndicated research report to examine the perceptions, expectations and behaviors of the U.S. Hispanic community in the areas of nutrition, lifestyle and healthcare. Targeted towards advertisers, marketers and market researchers, this report delivers timely and insightful answers that enable companies to better understand U.S. Hispanics’ attitudes toward healthcare and healthy living in order to more effectively market to those audiences. The Hispanic Reach Health and Wellness Study is the first of many different syndicated research services that MarketTools will publish in 2006 and 2007.

TV advertising of prescription drugs may be prompting more people to visit their doctors rather than substantially increasing sales of advertised drugs, according to research led by the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC).

America’s pharmaceutical research companies are currently developing 581 medicines to treat diseases that disproportionately affect Hispanic Americans, according to a new report released by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA).