Mexican American Health Issues Examined By Online Journal
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 10, 2003
Joe Wills
530-898-4143
Mexican American Health Issues Examined By Online Journal
Health concerns facing Mexican Americans is the topic of the June 2003 issue of The Californian Journal of Health Promotion, the new online journal by the Department of Health and Community Services, California State University, Chico.
“Far too many health problems continue to impact the Mexican American community,” writes CSU, Chico professor Paul Lopez, in an article in the issue, “from the lack of access to insurance and doctors, unhealthy diets, language and cultural barriers in treatment and chronic medical conditions that go undiagnosed, unstudied and untreated.”
For example, Mexican American farm workers often risk their health for their jobs, Lopez reports. “Being caught between keeping their jobs and staying home for several days because they are sick, farm workers usually have to choose to go to work despite being ill,” he writes.
Twenty-two articles are included in the journal, which is published free of charge. Among the authors in this issue are CSU, Chico professors Mary Portis, Diana Flannery, Jamie Gonzales, Cindy Wolff, Clark Davis and Lopez, as well as CSU, Chico students Joshua Brown, Vanessa Gyovai and Kathleen Ferran. CSU, Chico faculty member Mark Tomita edits the journal.
Other articles in the June issue examine pesticide education, telemedicine, community partnerships, lead poisoning, fertility rates and asthma care for Mexican Americans.
The journal was launched in March 2003. Along with being available online (URL: http://www.cjhp.org), the new issue is available in CD-Rom form from the Associated Students Bookstore at CSU, Chico (URL: http://asbookstore.csuchico.edu). Information about the journal can be obtained by contacting Tomita at (530) 898-4417.
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