Past Projects - Experimental
Replication of A Su Salud En Acción: Cooperative Agreements for Replication and Dissemination of Effective Breast and Cervical Cancer Health Education Interventions replicated a prior project’s breast and cervical cancer prevention and control efforts among Hispanics/Latinos, with an ultimate goal of increasing the number of Hispanic women who seek the services of the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Redes En Acción: The National Hispanic/Latino Cancer Network, first funded from 2000 as this Special Population Network of the National Cancer Institute, is dedicated to developing a national infrastructure of academic centers, community and federal partners and local and regional health professionals, civic leaders and researchers to stimulate cancer control research, awareness and training.
Special Interest Project II: Latinos in a Network for Cancer Control established a Cancer Prevention and Control Network for Texas and surrounding states along the Texas-Mexico Border with a focus on eliminating cancer–related health disparities among Latinos through community-based intervention and dissemination research.
National Hispanic Leadership Initiative on Cancer (NHLIC): En Acción sought to initiate the first comprehensive assessment of cancer risk factors among the major populations of Hispanic/Latino men and women and develop state-of-the-art cancer prevention and control strategies tailored to those diverse populations.
A Su Salud, part of a larger study called Programa A Su Salud, studied and demonstrated the effectiveness of mass media health messages using culturally relevant role models from the low-income community of Eagle Pass, Texas.
Multi-Cultural Tobacco Media and Community Control Studies in Texas aimed to investigate and evaluate the processes and effects of media, peer networking, and education and policy activities to reduce smoking among the state’s white, Mexican American and African American middle- and high-school students.
Sin Fumar: Preventing Tobacco Use Among Border Youth aimed to prevent and reduce tobacco use among youth in grades 6-12 in Laredo, Texas, utilizing peer role models and behavioral journalism in a smoking prevention model.
Texas Diabetes Institute project applied the A Su Salud En Acción health promotion model to identify Hispanic community practices regarding diabetes, develop an educational community intervention, enhance the community’s knowledge and protective behaviors about diabetes, and promote diabetes screening.
Mirame!/Look at Me! – Substance Abuse Prevention Video Series for Hispanic Adolescents was a bilingual video series with curriculum support that exposed Hispanic youth to life-skills training to avoid alcohol, tobacco and other drugs in South Texas.
An Intervention for Hispanic Children with Asthma was a multimedia intervention to help youths and their caregivers better manage and reduce the incidence and severity of acute asthmas attacks among Hispanic children with chronic asthma.