Through The Lens: Immigrant Perspectives on Health in Southeast Minnesota
Using Photovoice, we collaborated with Hispanic/Latino and Somali immigrant leaders to document their health-related assets and needs. The photographers’ words and photographs illustrate stories of discrimination, stress, and exclusion but also immense fortitude, resilience, and pride. Collectively, we want to ensure that immigrants have a voice in shaping the policies and decisions that impact our health and lives.
Social Network Analysis
In 2015, RHCP completed the Healthy Immigrant Families (HIF) project, during which community and academic partners co-created an intervention that was delivered to 44 Hispanic, Somali and Sudanese families in their homes by bilingual interventionists.
Healthy Immigrant Community
While immigrant and refugee populations arrive to the United States healthier than the general population, these advantages disappear over time, partly due to adoption of unhealthy dietary behaviors.
Healthy Immigrant Families
Immigrants and refugees arrive to the United States healthier than the general population. But, the longer they live in the U.S., the more likely they are to approximate the cardiovascular risk profiles of the general population, including increased rates of obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, and heart disease.
Club Fit
Club Fit was an initiative aimed at promoting healthy habits and preventing excess weight gain among children members at the Boys and Girls Club of Rochester, Minnesota (BGCR). Obesity is associated with increased risk for cardiovascular, metabolic, and other health conditions and for psychosocial concerns such as bullying, stigma, and emotional difficulties.
Positive Loser
Immigrants and refugees to the United States have physical activity levels and dietary behaviors that are less healthy than the non-immigrant majority. Low levels of physical activity and poor dietary behaviors are associated with greater risks for obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.