Materials for the Hispanic/Latino Population

NHLBI health information materials are available in a variety of formats through our Online Catalog, and answers to frequently-asked questions about the catalog are available.

Manuals

Your Heart, Your Life: A Community Health Worker’s Manual for the Hispanic Community is designed to help promotores teach an 11-lesson course on heart health education. It includes scripts, activities, and handouts. It is available in English or Spanish.

• Your Heart, Your Life: A Community Health Worker’s Manual for the Hispanic Community
• Su corazón, su vida: Manual del promotor y promotora de salud

Picture Cards

Dibujos educativos para el promotor de salud | Picture Cards for Community Health Workers
This flip chart with 57 illustrated pages is keyed to teaching activities in the Your Heart, Your Life manual. Talking points on the reverse side allow it to be used for talks on heart health. Each page is translated in English and Spanish.

Recipe Books

Platillos latinos ¡sabrosos y saludables! | Delicious Heart Healthy Latino Recipes
This 26-recipe book includes easy taste-tested heart-healthy Latino dishes that are lower in fat and sodium than traditional versions. Each page is translated into English and Spanish.

Your Heart, Your Life – Heart Healthy Latino Recipes (4.27MB)
These 6 traditional Latino recipes are presented using lighter, healthier ingredients and cooking methods.

Booklets

The Healthy Heart, Healthy Homes series on heart healthy living for the Hispanic/Latino community includes an English version and a Spanish version all in each booklet. Each provides practical information on heart disease and its risk factors.

• Keep the Beat: Control Your High Blood Pressure | Cuide su vida: Controle su presión arterial alta
  This booklet explains how high blood pressure impacts your chances of developing heart disease and how to help control it.
• Are You at Risk for Heart Disease? | ¿Está usted en riesgo de enfermarse del corazón?
  This booklet shows how the heart works, the nature of heart disease, and what risk factors may impact whether you develop heart disease.
• Do You Know Your Cholesterol Levels? | ¿Cómo están sus niveles de colesterol?
  This booklet explains good vs. bad cholesterol, what high cholesterol is, high cholesterol risks, and how to lower it.
• Do You Need to Lose Weight? | ¿Necesita bajar de peso?
  This booklet talks about how to know if you need to lose weight for your health and how to do it.
• Enjoy Living Smoke Free | Goce de la vida sin el cigarrillo
  This booklet shows the health risks of smoking and provides helpful tips for breaking the smoking habit.
• Protect Your Heart Against Diabetes | Proteja su corazón contra la diabetes
  This booklet explains the dangers of Type 2 diabetes, and what risk factors you need to monitor to prevent and treat it.

Selected NHLBI Materials

Asthma Checklists

These checklists, formatted as scorecards, can be used by parents and childcare providers to pinpoint specific problems areas for children with asthma. Each is available in an English and Spanish version.

• How Asthma-Friendly Is Your Childcare Setting? | ¿Su guardería infantil tiene en cuenta a los niños con asma?
• How Asthma-Friendly Is Your School? | Apoya su escuela a los niños que tienen asma?

Peripheral Arterial Disease

Read about Peripheral Arterial Disease as it raises your risk for stroke and heart attack. The fact sheet and poster are each available in an English and Spanish version.

• Stay in Circulation - Facts About Peripheral Arterial Disease (P.A.D.) | Información acerca de la enfermedad arterial periférica (P.A.D.)
• P.A.D raises your risk of heart attack and stroke | La P.A.D. aumenta el riesgo de ataque al corazón y el cuerpo (PDF, 652 KB)

Salud para su Corazón

• Bringing Heart Health to Latinos: A Community Program Guide for Latinos
  This guide resents the basic steps for planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating a community-based program to promote heart health among Latinos.

Heart Attack

• Actúe Rápido Frente a los Síntomas de un Ataque al Corazón
  This brochure, available only in Spanish, describes the signs of heart attack and helps you prepare a plan for surviving one.

The Heart Truth

This NHLBI national campaign raises awareness about heart disease and its risk factors among women. These materials are available in Spanish or are written for the Hispanic/Latino population.

• Materiales de la campaña
  PDF downloads and web page links are listed in Spanish on this Spanish-language version of The Heart Truth Campaign Materials page.
• La verdad acerca el corazón para las latinas: Tome medidas para proteger su corazón | The Heart Truth for Women: Take Action To Protect Your Heart
• La verdad acerca del corazón para las mujeres | The Heart Truth for Women
• Heart Disease Doesn’t Care What You Wear

We Can!

This NHLBI national movement gives parents, caregivers, and communities a way to help children aged 8 - 13 stay at a healthy weight. These materials are available in Spanish or are written for the Hispanic/Latino population.

• Materials for Ethnically-Diverse Populations > Hispanic/Latino
• Consejos útiles y recursos
  PDF downloads and web links are listed in Spanish on this Spanish-language version of the We Can! Tools and Resources page.
• ¡Podemos! Cómo las familias encuentran el equilibrio: Un manual para los padres de familia | We Can! Families Finding the Balance: A Parent Handbook
  

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Last Updated: June 2014