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| The Latin ones from 12 to 17 years have more possibilities of trying to take life. Nevertheless, the reasons are not known, but scientists exist trying to understand the porqué |
| Suicide and the Hispanic young people |
For Andrea Alemañy
Washington Hispanic
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| José Luis Zayas, teacher Univeridad de St. Luois. Photo: Courteousness J. L. Zayas. |
The determination to life be taken by an adolescent is one of the decisions most difficult of understanding. Nevertheless, to understand the porqué a young man wants to stop existing it is fundamental to find a solution or preventive measurement to such a situation.
This is especially important given the numbers that are seen in the Latin adolescents.
In the year 2000, the Latin adolescents between 12 and 17 years had a major risk of trying to fake the suicide that other groups of young people of his age, according to a report of National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA).
Inside this group, he is the young people between 14 and 15 years those who cover the biggest risk. Dr. Luis H. Zayas, teacher of social work in the University of Washington in St. Louis, has studied in the last five years to Latin that have happened for this type of crisis, and speech of what he has learned in his studies and of how the community can help to change these alarming statistics.
— Why are the Latin Americans the most affected and not other immigrant groups?
“ When I know the definitive answer to this question I am going to be a famous person, but what if we see is the parents they support the customs of his culture of origin while the girls want to adapt themselves to the American culture, but the parents do not allow it. This way a cultural breach is generated between what the parents believe and what the girls are learning”, says Zayas.
The Hispanic family
The expert says that, to the being the most liberal American culture with regard to the roll of the woman, this believe tension inside the family of the adolescent.
“ In this country the women grow up in an ambience with more independence and autonomy, while the Hispanic traditional culture has different expectations of his girls, as for example that have to be in his houses and to take care of the family. There the young people is in a difficult position because they want to take part in the biggest daily culture, but his parents want that they take part of his traditions. Many parents were expressing themselves of way very different to as his daughters express themselves. For the same, the parents are not qualified to offer advices and to understand what they can do. The girls, hence, have both feet in two different cultures. There it is where the stress comes”, says Zayas.
Not always they want to die
The expert establishes that, although the myth says that the attempt of suicido is a help scream, in fact it is much more than that. “The girls say to us that on having been cut or after the tablets take, what they wanted age to go out of the anxiety that they had inside, not that were looking for help. Most of them do not have in mind the death. But they are in a situation where they do not know what to do. Most of the attempts happen in the house, with someone inside. Very few times the attempts are solitary. There is someone it surrounds because it is an interpersonal process that has to do with the impact of other persons in the girl”.
What can the parents do?
Zayas says that the communication is essential, “but it is very easy to say: ' they must speak with his daughters’. It is necessary to understand what it him is spending to the girls. When the parents are flexible in terms to allow to his true daughters freedom freedoms, there is less danger because the young people feels that at least his dad and his mom understand therefore it is happening, but simultaneously they are imposing certain restrictions on him. The parents have to understand that his daughters not only are increasing, but growing in a different environment in which they grew up. We must not hope that a 13-year-old kid should know how him to speak to his parents and to explain to him what it is spending to him”.
Signs
The National Center for the Prevention of the Violence in the Youth indicates that some of the signs about which the young people is thinking about the suicide are:
I abuse substances
They turn out to be depressed
They escape often of his hearths
They speak of suicido
They stop speaking with relatives and friends
They stop doing activities that once they were pleasant
Unexpected pregnancies
They act impulsively or aggressively
These are only some factors and not all the adolescents act as equal. The only way of being sure is to speak with them.
| $ 1400 more for person spends the health system in obese |
| Almost 10 % of expenses in health is to fight obesity |
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| Almost a third of the adult Americans are obese and the obesity valuation increased in 37 % between 1998 and 2006. |
Writing
Washington Hispanic
The obesity not only can be risky, but also very costly. New studies demonstrate that the medical expenses in the United States throw an average of more than 1.400 dollars per year for the obese persons than for those of normal weight.
In whole, the expenses of health related to the obesity amount to 147 billion dollars, the double of the total that was costing a decade ago.
The costly sum reflects the expenses to treat the diabetes, the cardiac evil and other more common illnesses for those with excess weight, it concluded the study realized by scientists of the government and the group without ends of lucre RTI International.
An economist specializing in health, Eric Finkelstein, of the RTI, has a raw message for the legislators who try to reform the health system: "Unless they tackle the obesity, they are never going to face the increasing health costs".
The evil of health related to the obesity represents 9,1 % of everything the medical expenses, it arrives of 6,55 % of 1998, he said the study.
The economists specializing in health have warned long ago that the obesity is a decisive factor in the increase of the expenses of health.
For example, the treatment of the diabetes costs annually 190 billion dollars in the United States, and the excess weight is the principal risk factor to suffer from diabetes. Moreover, the obese diabetics are the most difficult to attend, with a major number of ulcers in the feet and amputations, between other problems.
" The health costs are distinctly major for the obese persons and it does not have to be like that", said Jeff Levi, member of the organization without lucre ends Trust for America's Health, which did not take part in the new study.
" There are ways of changing the behavior and of changing these health results, in order that we do not have to fight with the medical consequences of the obesity", he added Levi, advocate of community programs who encourage the physical activity and a better feeding.
Almost a third of the adult Americans are obese and the obesity valuation increased in 37 % between 1998 and 2006, the years that the study published Monday included.
The expenses in medicines for the evil related to the obesity include big part of the cost.
The programs of medical coverage subsidized by the federal government spend 600 more dollars for the obese ones that someone of normal weight, the study said.
| To his health |
| The Hispanics and the struggle against the cancer |
For Elmer Huerta
The director Preventorium del Cáncer
Washington Hospital Center
Presently, the Hispanics are being affected by the cancer in disproportionate quantities compared to the rest of the Americans. The valuation of mortality of the cancer of bosom and cervical it is major in the Hispanic women, the cancer of the prostate represents 30 % of the types of cancer diagnosed in the Latin men, and the cancer caused by the cigaret is in increase between the Latin Americans.
The good news is that the cancer incidence between the Hispanics can get ready.
But nevertheless, the Hispanics are less inclined than the North Americans to do to him analysis and regular medical checkups which can detect the cancer in his early stages, which is when the treatments can increase the survival indexes.
Really for this reason the Division of the South Atlantic Ocean of the American Society of the Cancer (in his initials in Englishman ACS) threw the Hispanic Campaign for the Prevention of the Cancer in the autumn of 2008. The campaign achieved the support of the radio stations that reach thousands of radioescuchas in the field of Delaware, Maryland, Washington A.D., Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia in sights to reduce the cancer and to promote healthy life styles.
“ osotros we promote and distribute a new series of public announcements that not only educate the Hispanics about the prevention of the cancer, but he allows them to know that the American Society of the Cancer offers a wide information status and supports to programs so much for those who suffer from cancer as his relatives.
The community public announcements for the prevention of the cancer include a series of mini radio serials in which the members of the fictitious family Pérez, discuss topics related to the cancer between them and with his friends. The personages of this fictitious family include: the head of the family Pérez, Rogelio and his wife Alma, his son Josie, and Juanito, the smallest.
Across the dialogues of his personages, the series presents information about a variety of topics in which there talks each other the cancer of bosom, cancer of the prostate, erroneous concepts on the cancer, and a plan of three steps that helps to reduce the cancer risk.
The preventive campaign of the American Society of the Cancer has produced a titled leaflet: “What is the cancer?” which presents information adapted culturally about the causes, prevention, and treatment of the cancer.
The leaflet will be used by other community agencies in his educational programs on the cancer.
Those who have not listened to the public announcements in the radio can gain access to them across the electronic page of Celebra la Vida Con Salud www.celebralavida.com
The Hispanics who have been diagnosed by cancer, as well as his relatives and friends who want to support them can obtain information across the American Society of the Cancer (ACS) that offers free information about the cancer, how to detect it, to prepare it, and to treat it. Call 800-227-2345 or navigate our electronic page www.cancer.org.
| Actuality |
| Lacking vitamin D in children |
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| The cause has direct bearing on a little time that the children spend exposed to the sun. |
Writing
Washington Hispanic
Close to 70 % of the children in the country they obtain few vitamin D, what puts them in risk of suffering for weak bones and illnesses to the heart.
The body produces vitamin D when it is exposed to the sun. The experts who discovered this shortcoming said that the cause has direct bearing on a little time that the children spend out playing. “It would be good that the parents were extinguishing the television and the video games and leave that the children play out. Between 15 to 20 daily minutes it is sufficient”, said the author of the study, Michal L. Re-lick.
A test of this is that there have been brought more cases of a disorder of the development of the bones caused exactly by vitamin lack D.
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