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- Hispanic health disparities
- cultural health beliefs
- stress
- mental health
- type 2 diabetes
- Health & Biomedical Sciences and Engineering
- Cross-cutting: U.S. –Mexico and Latin America: Social and Behavioral Issues
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Department: Public Health Sciences
Date: August 06, 2018

Looking after your health is like doing routine maintenance on your car. If you do not change the oil in your vehicle or you skip doctor’s appointments, your car and your body will begin to break down. That is the point that Jeannie Belinda Concha, Ph.D., a public health educator, made when she asked men such as her brothers why they checked the oil in their cars every three months, but would not to go to the doctor for a routine physical exam.
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