“Retire Ronald McDonald” Press Conference Hosted by Block by Block, 5-18-2011
CHICAGO – On Wednesday 5-18, more than 550 health institutions and professionals from all 50 states challenged McDonald’s to stop marketing junk food to kids with full-page ads and events in cities across the country. The press conference was hosted by Block by Block, a diabetes information and prevention center that has partnered with the [...]
UIC School of Public Health Graduate co-teaches Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School class
The presentation below is Jenny Byelick’s UIC School of Public Health Capstone project for her Master of Public Health degree, relating the introductory public health course she co-taught at Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School as part of a comprehensive public health curriculum. Public health curricula at the high school level can be a vehicle [...]
Mapping Paseo Boricua’s Public Health Assets-Partnership with DePaul University
This past fall, the Puerto Rican Cultural Center partnered with Dr. Sungsoon (Julie) Hwang’s GEO242: GISII class at DePaul University to continue the ongoing project of mapping Paseo Boricua’s Public Health assets. Chad Stutsman, Kaitlin Beer and Edward Kulack worked together with Alejandro Luis Molina, the Puerto Rican Cultural Center’s Board Secretary, to produce the [...]
After all, I am a Big Girl
The famous poem by the Queen of HP, Janeida Rivera. Janeida blogs at queenofhp.com. Download the poem here. Walking down my streets I‚m usually too busy on my cell phone To notice anything unusual Starbucks and an antique boutique, what’s new? As I pass the second sunshine tanning salon and the sushi surplus I can‚t [...]
Puerto Rican Cultural Center and programs featured in Working Capital
The Winter 2008 issue of Working Capital the newsletter of the Local Initiative Support Corporation features the Puerto Rican Cultural Center and its programs. Download the issue here. Share on Facebook
Childhood Obesity in Six Chicago Communities
This research article by Helen Margellos-Anast, Ami M. Shah and Dr. Steve Whitman appeared in the March-April 2008 (Volume 123) issue of Public Health Reports. Drawing upon data from a 2002-2003 health survey undertaken in six diverse Chicago communities, the article assesses levels of obesity and overweight among children in these Chicago communities compared with [...]
Racial Disparities in Health: Taking It Personally
This guest editorial by Dr. Steven Whitman appeared in the September-October 2001 (Volume 116) issue of Public Health Reports. Whitman notes that “essential structural issues” are currently intensifying rather than reducing racial disparities in public health (387). There is substantial evidence that disparities “in wealth and residential segregation”– many of which (at least in the [...]
Diversity and Disparity: GIS and Small-Area Analysis in Six Chicago Neighborhoods
This 2004 article by Steven Whitman, Abigail Silva, Ami Shah and David Ansell examines 14 health status indicators for six diverse Chicago communities (Norwood Park, Humboldt Park, West Town, North Lawndale, South Lawndale and Roseland) over time and across community areas. Prominent disparities among community areas exist in mortality rates, birth outcomes and infectious diseases. [...]
Smoking in 6 Diverse Chicago Communities–A Population Study
This article was written by Jade L. Dell, MRE, Steven Whitman, PhD, Ami M. Shah, MPH, Abigail Silva, MPH and David Ansell, MD, MPH. The authors analyze smoking survey data across six racially and ethnically diverse Chicago communities during 2002-2003 to explore community-level variations in smoking behavior. Survey questions focused on topics including current smoking, [...]
Variations in the Health Conditions of 6 Chicago Community Areas: A Case for Local-Level Data
This 2006 study by Ami M. Shah, MPH, Steven Whitman, PhD, and Abigail Silva, MPH explores the relevance of local-level data on chronic disease and risk factors to research on health disparities. The study uses a population-based health survey’s (including interviews with 1699 adults) findings on 13 health measures; this survey was undertaken in 6 [...]
Diabetes in Humboldt Park: A Call to Action
This 2006 report prepared by the Humboldt Park Diabetes Task Force articulated a practical point-by-point plan to implement 19 research-based community health recommendations over the 5 years following 2006 by the then-newly-formed Humboldt Park Diabetes Project. The recommendations and concomitant interventions– including numerous privately- and publicly-funded projects– center around five main goals. These goals are: [...]
Disproportionate Impact of Diabetes in a Puerto Rican Community of Chicago
This 2006 report assessing the impact of diabetes in the West Town-Humboldt Park areas– two contiguous areas containing about 26,000 Puerto Ricans, or 23% of Chicago’s total Puerto Rican population– was produced by three medical researchers from Chicago’s Sinai Urban Health Institute. Data for this report was collected from a comprehensive health survey conducted in [...]
Improving Community Health Survey: Report 2
In 2004, Chicago’s Sinai Urban Health Institute published a report on a community health survey that revealed important community-level risk factors and some never before documented disparities in health. This 2005 report– part 2 of the 2004 publication– uses community-level health information to provide ten additional survey findings. New areas of research include high blood [...]
Improving Community Health Survey
This 2004 report on a community health survey undertaken in six Chicago communities (Norwood Park, Humboldt Park, West Town, North Lawndale, South Lawndale and Roseland) was produced by Steven Whitman, Ph.D., Cynthia Williams, M.S., and Ami M. Shah, M.P.H. of the Sinai Urban Health Institute. While data about health habits and outcomes is commonly available [...]
Preventing Obesity and Improving Our Health: The Community Survey in Humboldt Park
This April 2006 report on Humboldt Park’s obesity epidemic was prepared by representatives from the Puerto Rican Cultural Center, the CO-OP (Community Organizing for Obesity Prevention) Humboldt Park project, the Sinai Urban Health Institute, Centro Sin Fronteras and the Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children. The report summarizes the goals, methods, results and conclusions [...]
Helping Her Live: Gaining Control of Breast Health
Hosted by the Sinai Urban Health Institute in Chicago, this project aims to understand and address the alarming disparity in rates of breast cancer-related mortality between black women and white women in Chicago. Race-based population disparities in mammography access, mammography quality and treatment quality have been hypothesized as main causes for this growing disparity. The [...]
Mammography Screening in Six Diverse Chicago Communities– A Population Study
From abstract: “Despite the fact that recent studies suggest a narrowing in access to mammography, Black women are much more likely to die from breast cancer than White women. Data at the community level regarding mammography screening can help explain health disparities and inform plans for improved screening efforts.” Chicago community areas surveyed for this [...]
Gentrification and Belonging (presentation)
Gentrification and belonging 431 final-3.ppt This Spring the students of CHSC 431: Community Assessment, a graduate-level core UIC School of Public Health class engaged in a collaborative learning experience with students and faculty at Pedro Albizu Campos Puerto Rican High School to conduct a community health assessment of Humboldt Park. The UIC SPH class of [...]
LGBTQ issues: Humboldt Park
This Spring the students of CHSC 431: Community Assessment, a graduate-level core UIC School of Public Health class engaged in a collaborative learning experience with students and faculty at Pedro Albizu Campos Puerto Rican High School to conduct a community health assessment of Humboldt Park. The UIC SPH class of nearly 40 students broke into [...]
PRCC Board Secretary presents at eChicago
eChicago presentation Alejandro Luis Molina, Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center, spoke at the eChicago 2010 conference on Friday, April 30, 2010. as part of the Latino eChicago panel. Alejandro’s presentation, titled “Digital Media and Learning in Humboldt Park: lessons learned and possible contributions”. The other presenters were: Dr [...]
Remembering Oscar Romero
Thirty years and one day ago, Archbishop Oscar Romero was assassinated by a death squad sent by the repressive Salvadoran government. The day before he was killed, at the Cathedral of San Salvador, Romero ended a sermon by addressing Salvadoran soldiers and police with the following words: “I would like to make an appeal in [...]
A bibliography and webliography of Puerto Rican Chicago
Click here to download and view a PDF bibliography and webliography of Puerto Rican Chicago. This resource was published in 2008 by Brooke Bahnsen, Kate Williams and Ann Bishop of the Community Informatics Initiative at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is being updated by our current CII UIUC interns, Daylily Alvarez and Edward [...]
Timeline: The Imprisonment of Men and Women Fighting Colonialism, 1898-1958
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Juan Antonio Corretjer in Chicago, April 1980 (video)
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