{"id":56206,"date":"2023-01-30T12:13:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T20:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=56206"},"modified":"2023-01-30T12:13:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T20:13:10","slug":"latino-teens-take-the-lead-in-vaccine-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=56206","title":{"rendered":"Latino teens take the lead in vaccine education"},"content":{"rendered":"
Community health groups are deputizing teenagers to get the word out about COVID vaccines and testing, reports Heidi de Marco at\u00a0Kaiser Health News<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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\u201cTeenagers communicate differently, and they get a great response,\u201d said Sandra Celedon, CEO of Fresno Building Healthy Communities, a nonprofit that helped design an internship program. \u201cDuring outreach events, people naturally want to talk to the young person.\u201d<\/div>\n
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More than 84% of Latino and Hispanic adults have completed the primary vaccine series, but fewer than 13% have received the updated bivalent booster, according to\u00a0CDC data<\/a>. And de Marco reports that vaccine hesitancy and mistrust remain a challenge in some communities, particularly for those who speak Spanish at home.<\/div>\n
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Spanish-speaking advocates and\u00a0promotoras\u00a0\u2014 non-licensed community health workers that help people access health resources and make good choices\u00a0\u2014\u00a0are particularly effective in Latino communities.<\/div>\n
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Many of the teens in Fresno\u2019s Promotoritos health worker program are children of immigrants, refugees, or immigrants without legal status.<\/div>\n
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The internships also expose the Hispanic and Latino students to health care career options, where their demographic is underrepresented among physicians, de Marco notes.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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