Diabetes In Hispanic American Culture

The following is a case study of a 41 year-old Mexican American woman who was recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

The 10 FHA’s used a curriculum that was initially created to evaluate Native Americans. This curriculum was then adapted for the Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) study. The REACH curriculum was used to reduce the risk factors associated with diabetes, decrease diabetic complications, encouraging diabetes self-management comprehension, increase self-efficacy, and self-motivation. Topics such as understanding of eating healthy, cooking, physical activity, and stress reducing components were also incorporated in the REACH study. Respondents met for five 2 hour group sessions every four weeks with the 10 FHA’s in a local community center from June to October. Classes were held in English and Spanish and respondents were

The focus group for the session long project is Hispanics, and how their culture plays a role in obesity. The article highlighted the relationship between length of residence and weight gain for this culture that leads to obesity (Lindberg, Stevens, & Halperin, 2013, p. 1). This paper will look at the PEN-3 model of Cultural Empowerment to help further understand the health crisis that Hispanics are currently in. The model of Cultural Empowerment includes Positive, Existential and Negative empowerment and how these three factors play a role in the Hispanic culture and their struggle with obesity. Positive empowerment is the first factor within the PEN-3 Cultural Empowerment.

Grandparents typically play an important role in their grandchildren’s upbringing. The emphasis on the well-being of the family makes Hispanic and Latin Americans very group-oriented with family gatherings being commonplace.” ("Latino/Hispanic Culture in The U.S. | Interexchange" n.d.) To help prevent and reduce the rates of obesity among Hispanic and Latinos, families to start addressing

Diabetes mellitus is a disease that results in abnormally high levels of blood glucose due to the body’s inability to effectively utilize secretion hormone insulin. The most common type of Diabetes is type II, which can result in serious medical complications and premature death. For the purpose of this study we have chosen to examine the incidence and prevalence of Diabetes for Hispanics between the ages of twenty and fifty residing in the California County of Tulare.

The burden of Type diabetes is much higher in ethnic minorities than for whites (CDC, 2011). Those of which include Latino and African American ethnicities. According to Lemon, Rosal, & Welch (2011), Latinos have a higher rate of type 2 Diabetes Mellitus rates than Caucasian because of socioeconomic status, education, health beliefs, family/relationship, and gender role expectations. The majority of this literature review was women and most of which had less than 8 years of education, with the average income of less than $10,000 annually (Lemon, Rosal, & Welch, 2011). Both of these factors which contribute to the risk of prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes. Several factors including language, literacy, and culture and values all are important in addressing the risk factors in low-income Spanish speaking individuals’ quality of life and risk of chronic disease.

Diabetes is a prevalent health disparity among the Latino population. Diabetes is listed as the fifth leading cause of death among the Latino population in the website for Center for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, in 2009. According to McBean, “the 2001 prevalence among Hispanics was significantly higher than among blacks.” (2317) In other words among the Hispanic or Latino community, there is a higher occurrence of diabetes as compared to other racial/ethnic groups such as Blacks and Native Americans. The prevalence of diabetes among Latinos is attributed to the social determinants of health such as low socioeconomic status and level of education. Further, this becomes an important public health issue when it costs the

Hispanics Health Promotion The United States, land of the free, has been the melting pot of many cultures. Culture being learned through behaviors, beliefs, and values shared by a group of individuals. Hispanics are the largest ethnic minority population in the United States today. Whether it is behavior such as smoking, food, and family being the central hub of everyday life. The overall health status of the Hispanics in the United States can attributed to lack of preventative care, seeking care of illness on onset, and overall lack of medical treatment.

The student will choose a culture or ethnicity and develop a written and oral presentation that addresses the required elements listed above. "We work tirelessly to reach communities throughout the United States to create awareness, prevent diabetes among at-risk populations, and ensure that all people with diabetes get the best care, treatment, and information about how to manage their diabetes " as stated by the American Diabetes Association ("Awareness Programs," n.d.).

First off, people think that Hispanics only eat beans, rice, tacos, or guacamole. When in reality is it nothing like that, they do not limit themselves to just their culturally appropriate foods, they will most likely eat different types of food. For example, the stereotype that all Mexicans love eating tacos. Personally, from experience I know other Mexicans that do not exactly love eating tacos, or do not eat them at all.

According to Cohen, R. (2011), low-income families have higher incidence of being overweight or obese because they have limited access to healthy foods. There is an increase in population of obese children today, which may result to adults with health disparities in the future (Cohen, 2011). The project will focus on African-Americans and Hispanics families because they have a higher risk of diseases tied with poor eating habits (as cited in Cohen, 2011).

This program will consist of 500 Hispanic women age 25 to 34 years. We will recruit our participants from Planned Parenthood clinics and low-income communities. Using the Social Determinants of Health concept, we will identify who will be recruited, how we will apply our intervention, and why it will be effective. Recruitment will be based on income earned and education level as they are often directly related (CDPH, 2006). After recruiting our target population, we will conduct a pretest that will ask participants knowledge about proper nutrition during pregnancy, risk factors for birth defects, and preventive measures. This will help us understand what our participants currently know, and compare the results with a posttest conducted

The cultural group that I would educate is the Hindu culture. I would focus on addressing the adults who suffer from diabetes. I would create the teaching plan to educate their population by first gathering information about their culture. Since I've identified the problem that I want to highlight within their population; which is diabetes, I would then devise a plan to reduce those rates, such as eating healthier meals. I would follow through with the plan of educating them by creating services in their communities to inform their people of the important effects of healthier eating habits as related to diabetes. After taking such action, I would evaluate the effects of those services.

Located in South Texas, Webb County covers a land area of approximately 3,300 square miles and is home to over 250,000 residents. For the purpose of this paper, I have chosen Webb County due to the fact it has the highest prevalence of diabetes in my home state of Texas (Direct links to health-related data, 2015). The population of Webb County is over ninety five percent Hispanic (Webb County QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau, 2015) and this demographic consistently ranks the highest for the prevalence of diabetes at almost double the rate of their Caucasian counterparts (American Diabetes Association, 2013). Factors such as genetics, geographic location and socio-economics are also contributing to the prevalence of

The study explored modifiable barriers and facilitators to diabetes self management (e.g., diet, physical activity, and medical management) among male and female Latino immigrants with diabetes. Protocols were approved by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill institutional review board (IRB) and to safeguard the rights of the participants each was provided informed consent and instruction regarding the risks and benefits of participating in the study. Information was provided in Spanish in both written and oral presentations. Additionally, bilingual, bicultural research assistants worked with primary care providers, translators, and other administrative staff.