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High blood pressure, high cholesterol and obesity can lead to cardiovascular disease?
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Chronic diseases, such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes, are the leading causes of death and disability in the United States.?
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Hispanics are at a higher risk for developing chronic disease than the rest of the population?
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Almost three quarters of Hispanics living in the border area at risk for developing type 2 diabetes mellitus?
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Type 2 Diabetes development can be delayed and improved by adopting healthy behaviors such as diet and physical activity ?
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The Phases of HEART Project |
| Phase I of HEART |
| The first phase of the Health Education Awareness Research Team (HEART) was successful. The team gathered information from the community, established a community advisory board, worked with promotores to strengthen their contributions to health, carried out an intervention to address chronic disease, and shared lessons learned. The findings of the study suggest that participants in the intervention group had a better change in beliefs about their heart health. |
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| Phase II of HEART |
| The second phase of HEART is a community-based participatory research project. The overall goal is to reduce risk factors for CVD in Hispanics in El Paso, Texas. The project will employ community health workers/promotores de salud. HEART Phase II will add a fitness component and include a focus on the environment that contributes to CVD risk |
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| Our culturally-sensitive program will be named Mi Corazón, Mi Comunidad (My Heart, My Community). The goals of the intervention are: |
- Increase awareness and the use of programs by Hispanic families living in the Lower Valley
- Increase health behaviors including intentions and self-efficacy
- Decrease CVD risk factors among Hispanic families.
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| Through our combined approach and with the continuous input from the CHAC, we will impact change agents, stakeholders, organizations, individuals and families. |
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| Lastly, we will identify and promote a policy agenda that targets the integration of community health workers/promotores de salud in community-based organizations and public sector programs in conjunction with a distribution plan to share our findings with a larger audience, thereby improving lifestyle and environmental factors that influence CVD risk factors for Hispanics in El Paso, Texas |
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Community Forum |
| HEART will hold a Community Forum on November 7, 2008 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the El Paso Community College Administration Services Building, located at 9050 Viscount Blvd. The forum’s purpose is to share findings from Phase I, instroduce the plans for Phase II, and meet with decision makers in El Paso about stragegies to promote health and prevent chronic diseases in the community. You can RSVP by October 31, 2008 via e-mail at heart@utep.edu or by phone at (915) 747-5057. |
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Note: The HEART Website is under construction.
Visit us again soon…thank you for your patience
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