Your Heart, Your Life: A Lay Health Educator’s Manual for the Hispanic Community

Designed to help promotores teach an 11-lesson course on heart health education specifically created for the Latino community. Lessons provide information for understanding, skill building, self-assessment, and goal-setting for healthy lifestyle changes. Includes culturally appropriate teaching scripts, learning activities, and reproducible handouts. Interactive activities use telenovelas, photonovelas, role play, problem-solving, and discussion. Latino role models and family contexts appear throughout. Available in Spanish and English.

Note: Session 2 requires the Act in Time to Heart Attack Signs Video, available on a compilation DVD.

Also available in Spanish.


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Item No.: 08-3674
Availability: Print (Information about file types)
Format: NHLBI produced publications : Color
Page Count: 453 pages
Subject: Latino Healthy Hearts Healthy Homes Prof Pubs
Audience: Health Professionals
Language: English
Size: 8.5 in. X 11 in.
Date of Publication: 2008

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