Results of Language for Health: Cardiovascular Disease Nutrition Education for Latino English-as-a-Second-Language Students

Elder, John P.; Candelaria, Jeanette I.; Woodruff, Susan I.; Criqui, Michael H.; Talavera, Gregory A.; Rupp, Joan W.

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“…Sembrando Salud (Sowing the Seeds of Health) entailed the evaluation of an eight-week tobacco/alcohol use prevention program compared with a first aid/home safety attention-control condition delivered to youth and their parents in schools (33,64). Six hundred and sixty adolescents and one adult caregiver per youth were recruited through the federal Migrant Education Program in Southern California.…”

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“…We focus specifically on the interaction of places and people. Finally, our model reflects our collective experience working primarily with Mexicans/ Mexican American populations along the U.S. Mexico border (8,10,11,13,[28][29][30][31][32][33]64) and also in the U.S. Southeast region (12,22,36,53,70,100,105), as well as our leadership and participation in national Latino research efforts (see http://www.redesenaccion.org/ and http://www.cscc.unc.edu/hchs/). …”

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Health Communication in the Latino Community: Issues and Approaches

Elder

Ayala

Parra‐Medina³

et al. 2009

Annu. Rev. Public Health

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With reference to the Communication-Persuasion model, we describe various research issues and challenges when considering the health of Latinos, and implications for designing and evaluating health communication and behavior change efforts in this population. Latinos, collectively the nation's largest minority group, vary substantially in terms of socioeconomic and legal status, their country of origin and the extent of ongoing contact with that country, their region of residence within the United States, their generation status and levels of acculturation, and psychosocial factors. Health communication efforts with Latinos need to focus on family, cultural traditions, and collectivism while attending to acculturation, language, generation and national origin. The most extensive intervention topic in Latino health promotion has been the application of the lay health advisor model. This and other fundamental communication approaches, as well as audience and population characteristics, need to be considered within the context of dynamic and complex societal changes. PART I: LATINOS IN THE UNITED STATESMany national health and social science studies, including the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and other surveys, treat Latinos 1 as though they were a homogenous group. However, as Modiano and colleagues (75) stated,The aggregation of culturally distinct subgroups, which have resided in the United States for different periods of time, into a more inclusive Latino category assumes that all persons of Mexican, Cuban and Puerto Rican origin have similar needs and experience similar barriers in using health services.There is, however, no clear evidence for this assumption. On the contrary, there is evidence that each group has specific characteristics that make it different and independent from one another. . . . (p. 35) Clearly, extraordinary diversity exists among subgroups of Latinos. The immigration and acculturation experiences of Mexican or Central American-descended Americans, South Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Cuban Americans vary substantially from one another. The distinction among Latino subgroups can be traced back to highly varied experiences not only with respect to encounters with the dominant American culture but also extending back to Spanish colonization, which began to redefine the western hemisphere 500 years ago. Indigenous groups in the Caribbean Islands and coastal areas largely succumbed to Iberian diseases and aggression and were replaced by Europeans and African slaves. Although forced to adopt much of the culture and religion of the conquistadores, indigenous groups in central and highland areas of Mexico and further south survived 1 The field offers no consensus regarding the term to refer to persons of Latin American heritage who live in the United States. Both "Hispanic" and "Latino" are used extensively, although U.S. government documents, including the Census, use the term Hispanic. Given this mixed usage in the literature, we use the term Latino to indicate, where po...

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Health Communication in the Latino Community: Issues and Approaches

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“…English education classes provide ready access to populations with limited English language literacy (these populations are often not reached by English language health education materials or media-based health education campaigns) (2,3). The ESL environment is considered to be an ideal avenue for reaching immigrants since people in such classes are generally motivated to improve their knowledge (4).…”

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“…Previous investigations on health-based ESL curricula are scarce (4). No studies known to these authors have reported on the specific activities in the classroom that may be particularly useful in teaching health issues or sensitive health topics in this venue.…”

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Opinions From ESL Instructors and Students About Curricula on Hepatitis B for Use in Immigrant Communities

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Taylor

Hislop

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“…Although numerous community-based interventions have been conducted to reduce cancer risk [20][21][22][23][24], such interventions typically have not been conducted in ESL classrooms, where teaching the vocabulary and other language skills related to these behaviors in itself enhances adults' ability to understand basic health information (i.e., one component of health literacy). We identified only one example in the literature where the ESL setting was used to conduct a teacher-administered nutrition intervention, in this case for cardiovascular disease prevention [25]. To our knowledge, HE4L is the first teacher-administered, multimedia nutrition-education curriculum designed specifically for beginning-level adult ESL students to reduce cancer risk.…”

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Healthy eating for life: rationale and development of an English as a second language (ESL) curriculum for promoting healthy nutrition

Martinez

Rivers

Duncan³

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Behav. Med. Pract. Policy Res.

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Low health literacy contributes significantly to cancer health disparities disadvantaging minorities and the medically underserved. Immigrants to the United States constitute a particularly vulnerable subgroup of the medically underserved, and because many are non-native English speakers, they are pre-disposed to encounter language and literacy barriers across the cancer continuum. Healthy Eating for Life (HE4L) is an English as a second language (ESL) curriculum designed to teach English language and health literacy while promoting fruit and vegetable consumption for cancer prevention. This article describes the rationale, design, and content of HE4L. HE4L is a content-based adult ESL curriculum grounded in the health action process approach to behavior change. The curriculum package includes a soap opera-like storyline, an interactive student workbook, a teacher's manual, and audio files. HE4L is the first teacheradministered, multimedia nutrition-education curriculum designed to reduce cancer risk among beginning-level ESL students. HE4L is unique because it combines adult ESL principles, health education content, and behavioral theory. HE4L provides a case study of how evidence-based, health promotion practices can be implemented into reallife settings and serves as a timely, useful, and accessible nutrition-education resource for health educators. KEYWORDSHealth literacy, Immigrants, Cancer health disparities, English as a second language, Intervention HEALTHY EATING FOR LIFE: RATIONALE AND DEVELOPMENT OF AN ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE (ESL) CURRICULUM FOR PROMOTING HEALTHY NUTRITIONHealthy Eating for Life (HE4L) is a teacher-administered, English as a second language (ESL) curriculum intervention designed to promote healthy eating for cancer prevention while improving English language skills and health literacy. HE4L is designed for beginning-level ESL classrooms that serve predominantly medically underserved, limited literacy, immigrant populations. This article presents the background and rationale behind HE4L and describes the design and content of the curriculum. Our goal is to demonstrate how evidence-based practices can be incorporated into a real-life context where they have the potential to impact a population in need of effective cancer prevention interventions.Cancer health disparities Cancer health disparities are "differences in the incidence, prevalence, mortality, and burden of Implications Practice: Incorporating evidence-based, healthpromotion strategies into adult English as a second language curriculum can be a timely, useful, and accessible mean to impact a population in need of effective cancer prevention interventions.Policy: The information gleaned from testing the effectiveness of HE4L can be used to inform state-and national-level health education policies. Incorporating evidence-based health promotion strategies into pre-existing services, such as adult education, can ensure that important health information and behavioral skills are disseminated to at-risk populations.Res...

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Results of Language for Health: Cardiovascular Disease Nutrition Education for Latino English-as-a-Second-Language Students

Cited by 59 publications

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Health Communication in the Latino Community: Issues and Approaches

Health Communication in the Latino Community: Issues and Approaches

Opinions From ESL Instructors and Students About Curricula on Hepatitis B for Use in Immigrant Communities

Healthy eating for life: rationale and development of an English as a second language (ESL) curriculum for promoting healthy nutrition

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