One in three California Latinos ages 10-24 live in a rural, agricultural, non-suburban or non-metropolitan community – yet, we know little about their health. With funding from the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health, the California Adolescent Health Collaborative is releasing a new series of briefs that provide one of the first-ever pictures of … [ Read full post ]
Archive for February, 2012
A snapshot of Latino adolescents in rural California
Monday, February 13th, 2012Study: Nationwide penny tax on soda could cut costs and save lives
Thursday, February 9th, 2012
Can a one-cent-per-ounce tax on Coke and Pepsi really reduce the high rates of obesity, heart disease, strokes and diabetes in our country? Yes say the authors of a recent joint study published in the journal Health Affairs. Researchers from Columbia University Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco calculate that just … [ Read full post ]
