ouRXperience: Bridge to Western Medicine for Immigrants; Safety Helps Build Healthy Communities; Spike in Homicides
The mother and brother of murder victim Meldrick Melgoza embrace at the site where he was shot. (Photo: Anabell Romero)
Editor’s Note: KQED produces ouRXperience, a blog from community correspondents, to enrich coverage of health issues across California.
Recently, ouRXperience featured posts from three California communities:
- Bobbi Albano in San Bernardino wrote about the importance of a safe community in building a healthy community.
- From Wilmington, Anabell Romero, brought the news of a spike in murders and how a community on-edge is responding.
- And from Merced, Changvang Her described how a program to bridge western medicine to Hmong and Mien communities helps improve patients’ health.
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In Impoverished Eastern Coachella Valley, Data Brings Change
By Lisa Morehouse About 40 miles from the Southern California resort town of Palm Springs is an abundant agricultural region, the Eastern Coachella Valley. It’s in the middle of a desert, but because of irrigation, the land there is rich. … Read More
- Distance a Barrier for Rural Californians with Health Problems
- Want To Get People to Eat More Fresh Produce? Give Them A Little Money
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From Heartbreaking Miscomprehension Comes New Understanding
Today, it’s hard enough for doctors and patients to communicate effectively, even if they share the same primary language. But layer on not only language differences, but also a yawning cultural chasm, and a visit to western medicine might lead … Read More
- ouRXperience: An "F" in Air Quality; Hmong Shaman Training; Healthy Food Access; Child Abuse Awareness