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Twelve
Years of Research, Education and Service
The
Midwest Latino Health Research, Training, and Policy Center seeks
to improve the health status and quality of health care to Hispanics/Latinos
living in Chicago and throughout the Midwest. The Center develops
and conducts health and human services research on issues affecting
Latino communities. It facilitates mechanisms for communication,
networking, and health information dissemination among service providers
and community-based organizations. Through internships and fellowships,
the Center works to increase the number of methodologically- and
culturally-competent Latino and non-Latino faculty, students, and
community practitioners in health services research. The Center
is also active on the policy front, conducting policy analyses,
providing testimony based upon research and engaging in information
dissemination activities.
The
Latino Center was founded in April 1993, under the leadership of
Aida L. Giachello, Ph.D., Jane
Addams College of Social Work, in partnership with the Hispanic
Center of Excellence at the UIC
College of Medicine and the UIC
School of Public Health. Over the past ten years, the Center
has developed the infrastructure to conduct research on health disparities
and outcomes on chronic illnesses (diabetes, asthma, hypertension),
cancer, injury prevention, and maternal and child health. Research
has been conducted in rural and urban areas and has included many
Latino groups, including recent immigrants, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans,
and Central Americans.
In
1997, the Center began conducting interventional studies in diabetes
empowerment education through funding from the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Division of Diabetes
Translation.
Students
and interns from the Health Careers Opportunity Program at the UIC
School of Public Health, the UIC Hispanic Center of Excellence,
as well as other university entities and institutions have been
trained at the Center.
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