Transcript 10 SMALL STEPS TO GET YOU & YOUR COMMUNITY HEALTHY …

Welcome to the National Hispana Leadership Institute
2011 webinar series with:
10 Simple Steps to Get You
& Your Community Healthy for 2012
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•Today’s presenter, Helen Arteaga, Director and Co-Founder of Plaza Del Sol Family
Health Center in Corona, New York, will answer some of your questions during and at
the end presentation.
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Helen Arteaga Landaverde
Director
Plaza Del Sol Family Health Center
Urban Health Plan, Inc
New York
Introduction
Class of 2010 of NHLI Fellowship
Director and co-Founder of Plaza Del Sol Family
Health Center in Corona, New York
Happily Married for the 3rd time to the same man
I have traveled and worked in communities in
Spain, Cuba, Chile and South Africa. The focus of
my work has been on increasing healthy habits
and finding accessible and affordable ways to
implement this.
Your Health
Getting healthy is one of the hardest and
most challenging tasks one can do in their
lifetime. Its a constant and daily change to
oneself and the environment they live in. (NY
Times July 10, 2011)
However its not an impossible task for
yourself, your family and your community.
Step 1 – Get A Physical

Know your numbers –
 Do you what your Blood Pressure –BP?
 Do you what your normal body temperature is?
 How many milligrams of vitamins and medication
are your taking (do they cancel each other or do
help each other)?
 What is your BMI Level ?
 When was your last menstrual period-LMP?
 What is your high-density cholesterol (HDL), lowdensity cholesterol (LDL) and triglycerides (TG)?
 Get a copy of your lab results and keep with your
when you are traveling aboard.
It is the winter season now please take your flu shots
and for those in warm weather please make sure you
take your allergy medication
Step 2 – Stay in Bed
 Sleeping 8 to 10 hours a day keeps the doctor away.
When your body slows down your heart rate decreases
it helps your body recovery from all the flight it does
during the day.
 Try not to fall a sleep with a TV, you think you are
resting but your brain and eyes are working to make
sense of TV series you are watching. Your auditory
sense is heightened interrupting rest.
 Take the TV out of your bedroom, better sex and better
training for your brain to learn how to relax and slow
down
Step 3 - Get nuts
Research suggests that people who eat nuts—
walnuts, pecans, almonds, hazelnuts, pistachios,
pine nuts and peanuts- two to four days or more
per week have a lower incidence of heart disease
than people who eat them less.
Have nuts in your bag, car, and office. It a good
way to lose weight as well and they go bad.
Step 4 – Say no to the Junk Food
 Many packaged snacks, crackers, bakery goods have
the “bad” LDL according to recent research by Walter
Willett, M.D., at the Harvard School of Public Health.
 Read labels carefully: if a package claims “zero trans fat,”
the amount per serving may be less than 0.5 g and
could have been rounded down to zero.
 The only way to be sure you’re getting a product
without trans fats is to avoid products that include
“hydrogenated oil”
Step 5 –Enjoy a little alcohol
 Scientific literature indicates that people who drink
moderately are less likely to have heart disease.
 Alcohol appears to raise “good” HDL cholesterol.
Wine, in particular, “thins” the blood (making it less
prone to clotting) and also contains antioxidants that
prevent your arteries from taking up LDL cholesterol,
a process that can lead to plaque buildup.
 Remember, one drink equals
 12 ounces of beer,
 5 ounces of wine
 1.5 ounces of liquor
Step 6 – Be Beautiful
 The health benefits of Spas have been proven for
centuries
 Spa therapy have proven to detoxify a person’s blood,
improve blood circulation, immunities, or digestion,
improve Mental Health and reduce stress
 Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel
Study (GSOEP), they find strong Spa therapy leads to a
statistically significant reduction in both absenteeism
and hospitalization
 Key thing to remember when going to Spa or
pampering yourself is to focus and celebrate YOU!!!
Step 7 – Wash your Hands
 Hand hygiene is one of the most important ways to prevent
the spread of infections
 Colds, Flu, and infectious diarrheas are all know to spread by
hand to hand contact.
 Bar soaps can be pretty and smell nice, but they can also
grow bacteria
 Hand sanitizers are not to be relied upon solely, after 5 uses
you have to wash your hands with water or you may cause
resistance build-up for some forms of bacteria and get sick
Step 8 – Check your Immunizations
 In adulthood you need to see your immunization status
because Newer vaccines were not available when some adults
were children
 Very important if you are foreign born, vaccines had different
regulatory system (TB vaccine)
 A simple blood test can indicated which immunization you
might need or need a booster shot
 If you are American born and have no idea where you
immunization card is you can check your state immunization
registry (CIR)
Step 9 – Drink H20
 Helps to relieve headache and back pains due to
dehydration.
 You’ll look younger when your skin is properly hydrated.
Water helps to replenish skin tissues, moisturizes skin and
increases skin elasticity.
 Your brain is mostly made up of water, thus drinking water
helps you think better, be more alert and more concentrated
at work
 Water helps fight against flu and other ailments like kidney
stones and heart attacks! Water with lemon is used for
ailments like respiratory disease, intestinal problems,
rheumatism and arthritis
 Improves Sex: Your body feels very good because drinking
water regulates your body temperature. That means you’ll
feel more energetic during sex. Water also helps to fuel your
muscle which is needed at times.
Step 10 – Become an Advocate
 Studies find a significant connection between
volunteering and good health.
 Reports show that volunteers have greater longevity,
higher functional ability, lower rates of depression and
less incidence of heart disease.
 Doing something for others increases your
 Self-Worth and sense of accomplishment
 Connection with the Environment/Community
 Energy
 Mental Health (decreases rates of depression)
 Self-Esteem
Getting your Community Healthy
 Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC)
 The backbone of providing health to designated
Medically Underserved Area/Populations (MUA or
MUP).
 FQHCs provide their services to all persons regardless
of ability to pay, and charge for services on a
community board approved sliding-fee scale that is
based on patients' family income and size
 Currently we service about 20 million individuals and
we are total of 1124 health center
 2010 all health center total visits included 77 million
health visits in the US
 1 out 16 individual in America get their health care at
an FQHC
Getting your Community Healthy
 The Affordable Health Care Act
 FQHC serviced as model of care that is possible in the US
 We are charged to see an additional 20 million individuals
who don’t have affordable and good quality access
 Therefore support your local FQHC (www.hrsa.gov)
 Visit your local FQHC
 Fundraise
 Lobby and Advocate for them and their work
 Call Congress
Helen Arteaga Landaverde
[email protected]
37-16 108 Street
Corona NY 11368
347-686-3701
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