"Por la salud de San Diego"
Health fair to address health care issues in low-income families
in Barrio Logan
San Diego, California—More than 1,000 participants are
expected to attend "Por La Salud de San Diego" Health Fair in
Chicano Park
on Saturday March 29th, 2008. The fair, sponsored by the
Association of Professionals and Students, seeks to address
health care issues in lower income families by offering a number
of free health services to the community at no cost whatsoever.
Studies have shown that Hispanics bear a
disproportionate burden of disease, injury, death, and
disability as compared to other non-Hispanics. As the
largest ethnic population in the United States,
Hispanics court a higher risk of illness with little to
no health care to offset the illnesses that affect them
and their families.
With 25.4 percent of the population cited as
Hispanic in the latest US population census, and about 10.6% of
families or 14.6% of the population below the national poverty
line, the community of
San Diego
typifies the hardships that a rising cost of health care can
incur on lower income communities.
The Association of Professionals and Students (APS) is a
non-profit organization that provides social and
educational programs that focus on empowering low-income
communities. Over the course of the last three years,
the organization has steadily increased the number and
quality of services it offers to the primarily Latino
community by offering annual health fairs to low-income
families all throughout Southern California.
View
pictures of last year's health fair in Belvedere Park in East
Los Angeles.
If you would like more information, or to
request to be a vendor or sponsor in the "Por La Salud de San
Diego" Health Fair, please contact us:
"Por La Salud de San Diego" Health
Fair
Care of: Ana Villarruel, Health Fair Coordinator
P.O. Box 131315,
San Diego, CA 92170
E-mail:
avillarruel@aps-ca.org,
Telephone: (909)
528-8733
Fax: (619)568-3620
