Illinois Prevention Research Center: Partnering to Promote Health in Urban Communities
Collage of active community members

Healthcare Providers offer services at the 2008 Community Wellness Fair

IPRC and the Latino Organization of the Southwest (LOS) thank the following agencies for offering services at the health fair, held on Friday, November 7, at Marquette Park:

  • Chicago Department of Public Health
  • CORE Center
  • Dimensions Healthcare
  • Family Foot and Ankle Center
  • Holy Cross Hospital
  • IMAN Health Clinic Initiative
  • MacNeal Hospital
  • Mobile C.A.R.E Foundation
  • National Kidney Foundation
  • Saint Anthony Hospital Programa Cielo

More than 1,200 adults and children were served at the fair.

We also thank Andrew Holmes, a South Side community activist who generously donated two bicycles raffled at the fair.

 

Recent Publications by IPRC Researchers

A clinical practice guideline for treating tobacco use and dependence: 2008 update. A U.S. Public Health Service report. Am J Prev Med. 2008 Aug;35(2):158-76.

Anderson EE, Iltis AS. Assessing and improving research participants' understanding of risk: potential lessons from the literature on physician-patient risk communication. J Empir Res Hum Res Ethics. 2008 Sep;3(3)27-37.
News & Events

Greater Lawn Community Wellness Fair: Window to Wellness 2008

Please click here for the UIC News coverage of the event.

November is National Diabetes Awareness Month.

Diabetes now affects nearly 24 million people in the United States, or 8 percent of the U.S. population, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

For more information about diabetes and how to prevent it, see the CDC website.