Five on Friday: Father's Day

Happy Father’s Day! This Sunday, skip the new barbecue tools and cologne, and give the father in your life the gift of health. Go for a family day hike, swim some laps in the local community pool, or enjoy a heart-healthy vegetable-rich picnic lunch. Heart disease is the number one killer of men in the US regardless of race or ethnicity, and diet and exercise can prevent it. Among men facing vulnerabilities and barriers like agricultural workers, additional factors (food deserts, pesticide exposure, lack of safe neighborhoods for exercising, exhaustion from work) can make heart-healthy habits much more difficult to implement. Help your patients and the men in your life facing such barriers to reduce the obstacles to avoid cardiovascular disease. Watch our archived webinar, “Cardiovascular Conditions and Social Determinants of Health.”

Alma in Massachusetts shared “As More California Kids Drop Medi-Cal Coverage, Experts Seek Answers,” from the California Health Report.

Del shared the New York Times piece, “How Dengue, a Deadly Mosquito-Borne Disease, Could Spread in a Warming World.”

Del recommends “Meanings and Misunderstandings: A Social Determinants of Health Lexicon for Health Care Systems,” from the Milbank Memorial Fund.

Claire shared, “'Climate Grief': The Growing Emotional Toll of Climate Change” from NBC News.

Theressa sent around the announcement of NNOHA’s nine-month Sealants Improvement Collaborative that focuses on improving health centers’ performance on the UDS Sealants Measure.

Have a safe and healthy weekend.

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