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The Loyola University Chicago's Public
Health Action Project,
Graduate School and Stritch School of Medicine
presented
    
"Bridges
to Latino Health:
¡Sí Se Puede!"
An academic and
community-oriented conference to explore the health care challenges
confronting the Latino community in the United States
Keynote Address by:
Elena Rios, MD, MSPH
President, National Hispanic Medical
Association
Co-sponsored in association
with the
National Network of Latin American Medical Students (NNLAMS)
Schedule of Events |
Conference Brochure
| Movie Events |
Call for Abstracts
Student Art
Scholarship Contest |
Public Health Action
Project
Order the Conference DVD Set
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The
Latino community in the United States is the fastest growing segment of our
population. This community makes enormous contributions to the economic,
social, and cultural life of the United States. Unfortunately, many of the
health problems and inadequacies of the health care system have a disparate
impact on this community. Social and economic barriers to care can be
higher, cultural and language barriers may complicate the efficiency of care
in a stressed delivery system, and common chronic illnesses often have a
disproportionate prevalence among Latinos. Furthermore, the current public
policy debate regarding undocumented workers has created new barriers, real
and fear-based, to adequate access to health-care services. This conference
outlined these issues and facilitated discussion of effective means to
address these concerns. This conference was a two-day dialogue among the academic and health care communities and those affected
by the failed policies of the past. This dialogue aimed at partnerships that
empower each community to bring about change.
Featured speakers include:
Fred Tsao,
Public Director, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights; Ramon
Durazo-Arvizu, PhD, Assoc. Professor, Preventive Medicine &
Epidemiology, Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine; Jose A.
Pagan, PhD, Professor, Economics, University of Texas-Pan American;
Miguel A. De La Torre, PhD, M.Div, Director of Justice and Peace
Institute, Iliff School of Theology; Teresa Ramos, MD, Director,
Internal Medicine Residency Program, Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical
Center and Secretary, Board of Directors, National Hispanic Medical
Association; Sonal Ambegaokar JD, Health Policy Attorney, National
Immigration Law Center, Los Angeles, CA; Carmen Velasquez, Exec.
Director, Alivio Medical Center; Laura Olsho, PhD, Consultant, Abt
Associates, Cambridge, MA; John Wilhelm, MD, MPH,
Executive Director, Infant
Welfare Society of Chicago, Chicago, IL
This
conference was co-sponsored by the Graduate School and Stritch School of
Medicine of Loyola University Chicago (LUC). The program was developed
in collaboration with the numerous area-based community leaders and
advocates for the well being of the Latino community and in partnership with
the faculty, administration and families of Cristo Rey Jesuit High School.
This
conference was part of a series of LUC events related to Latino health and
health care sponsored by the LUC Public Health Action Project. The goals of
the Latino health initiative were:
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To solicit
information from the Latino community regarding their health concerns
and health care needs.
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To gather existing
research and data regarding these needs and strategies to address them.
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To identify areas
for further research.
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To develop
campus-community partnerships to promote the health of these
communities.
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Schedule of conference
events is
available
here
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We are now offering a "Bridges
to Latino Health:
¡Sí Se Puede!"
6-DVD set of the conference presentations including
speakers, panel discussions and power point presentations. If you are
interested in ordering a DVD set of the conference presentations,
including the video vignettes, please complete the linked
order
form
and
return by mail or fax to our office at: 708-327-9209. A minimal
shipping/handling fee
applies.
MOVIE EVENTS:
In conjunction
with the conference and sponsored by the Loyola University Chicago Public
Health Action Project and the Economics Forum.
 "Diarios
de motocicieta"
(The Motorcycle Diaries)
Monday, April 23, 2007, 6:30pm at
Crown Center Auditorium, Lake Shore Campus
The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) is based on
the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs,
Guevara recounts adventures he, and best friend Alberto Granado, had while
crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.
 "La Ciudad"
(The City)
Tuesday, April 24, 2007 at 3:30pm in
Maguire Hall, WTC, Room 340.
This 1998 film is a narrative snapshot of a side of New York that is
rarely seen: the city of illegal immigrants, the homeless, seasonal workers,
sweatshops, and laborers from Manhattan's Latin American neighborhoods. An
intensive collaboration with the immigrant community over a five-year period
has resulted in a complex four-part narrative in which the subjects of the
film are its principal actors. Set in the present day, the film follows four
separate stories of immigrant life. A young laborer, scavenging for bricks,
is killed when a wall collapses; two teenagers from the same village fall in
love, then lose each other in a housing project; a homeless father tries to
enroll his daughter in school; a young garment worker seeks justice in the
sweatshops. The film begins with formal references to conventions which
recall the classic tradition of still photography and documentary films of
the 1930s: gorgeously lit black-and-white portraits of workers, families,
street life, and ordinary labor. It quickly develops into a narrative
reminiscent of Italian neorealism of the 1940s: mostly nonprofessional
actors engaged in the tragedies and redemptions of everyday life. Uprooted,
disenfranchised, exploited, and heroic in their strivings, these characters
and stories have the stuff of greats such as Pare Lorentz, Dorothea Lange,
Joris Ivens, Helen Levitt, Roberto Rossellini, and Vittorio De Sica.
Paradoxically, there is nothing either retro-hip or postmodern about this
film. Its clarity, power, and contemporaneity produce a fresh and serious
new work that is completely engaging.
CALL FOR
ABSTRACTS
Call for Abstracts for
conference: "Bridges
to Latino Health: ˇSí Se Puede!"
Deadline for Submission:
April 2, 2007
Send Abstracts to Laura Bartosik, e-mail:
lbartosik@lumc.edu
The
Loyola University Chicago Public Health Action Project conference is seeking
proposals for posters to be presented at this unique conference. All topics
related to the health of the Latino population in the United States,
barriers to effective health care and health promotion, and strategies for
improving health status and access to health care will be considered.
Proposals presenting models for effective cross-institutional
cooperation in providing health care to the Latino community are also of
interest, e.g. university-community; hospital-community-based organization;
and service provider-advocacy organizations.
Related issues such as
the health-related impacts of immigration status and the potential impact of
proposed immigration reforms are also of interest.
This conference is
co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Loyola University Chicago (LUC) and
the LUC Stritch School of Medicine. The program is being developed by a
multidisciplinary faculty in collaboration with the community leaders and
advocates for the well being of the Latino community. Community leaders and
grass roots organizations are encouraged to develop a poster displaying
their work and participate in an informal discussion session of the posters
at this conference.
About the LUC Public
Health Action Project
The Loyola Public Health Action Project is a task force of Loyola University
Chicago faculty charged with focusing and developing LUC's collaborative
research and educational capacity in public health. The first undertaking of
this group is to examine the health and health care issues confronting the
Latino community in the United States. The members of the task force are:
Chair:
Mark G, Kuczewski, PhD
The Fr. Michael I. English, SJ, Professor of Medical Ethics, Director,
Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics & Health Policy, Loyola University
Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
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Lena Hatchett, PhD
Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Loyola
University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
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John D. Blum, JD, MHS
John J. Waldron Research Professor, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Gloria Jacobson, PhD, RN
Associate Professor, Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing,
Loyola
University Chicago |
E. Mine Cinar , MA, PhD
Professor and Area
Coordinator of Economics,
Loyola University Chicago School of Business Administration
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Philip Nyden, PhD
Professor of Sociology, Director,
Center for Urban
Research and Learning (CURL),
Loyola
University Chicago
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Tim Classen, PhD
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Loyola University
Chicago School of Business Administration
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Maria Vidal
De Haymes, PhD
Professor of Social Work, Loyola
University Chicago
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Ramon Durazo-Arvizu, PhD
Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Loyola
University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
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Aana Marie Vigen, PhD
Assistant Professor of Theology, Loyola
University Chicago |
Marcel Fredericks, PhD
Professor of Sociology and Director, Office of Research in Medical Sociology
Loyola
University Chicago
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Ruqaiijah A. Yearby, JD, MPH
Assistant Professor,
Loyola University
Chicago School of Law |
Art Scholarship
Contest
The Loyola Public
Health Action Project sponsored an
interpretive art contest for Cristo Rey Jesuit High School students.
The students were required to interpret what health care in the Latino
community means to them. All mediums were encouraged. Over 50 students
submitted artwork. The chosen entries received tuition scholarships.
Click on artwork to view larger image.
  
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Stefany Erazo
Title: La Familia Latina
Medium: watercolor, marker
My piece has puzzle
pieces because they represent each family. It shows that although
we have individual families we are really all one big family of
Latinos, also known as the Latino community. People are drawn, but
not with any facial features because it shouldn’t matter what we
look like on the outside to be a part of a family. They are also
drawn in many colors because Latinos are not just one single color
but multiple colors as well. My piece relates to health because it
shows that we always need someone to help us and to stay connected.
We not only have to be healthy physically but socially as well. |
Erika Alvarado
Title: Two Hospitals
Medium: ink, watercolor
My picture shows two
hospitals and the different conditions in each hospital and how
money affects the hospital treatment. This picture shows a poor
hospital and a rich hospital and how the more money you have the
better healthcare you get.
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Jeanette Sotelo
Title: Uphill
Medium: acrylic
My
picture is related to health because it talks about insurance. The
insured people are going to good, while the guy on the left in the
air is stuck without insurance. I’m trying to convey how important
insurance is in healthcare.
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 The
conference was be held at
Cristo Rey Jesuit High
School
June 21-22, 2007
1852 W. 22nd Place, Chicago IL 60608 (Little Village/Pilsen
neighborhood)
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