Press Releases: National
February 4, 2005
Health resources for African Americans
OAKLAND, Calif. – African Americans face unique health challenges, such as an increased risk for diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and some forms of cancer. To help our African-American members meet these challenges and live well, we're offering two new health resources.
Rent or view our health video
Our video, Caring for Your Family's Health: A Guide for African Americans, is available to rent or view at the Health Education Department at local medical facilities. The video gives members the information and tools they need to stay healthy in body, mind, and spirit, as well as tips to stay active and eat healthy meals.
Want to see what this video has to offer? Download a preview now.*
Note: This video file is large (approximately 15 MB). Depending on your Internet connection, it may take a long time to download.
The video will also be shown on TV this month. The scheduled air dates are:
San Francisco Bay area, California
Date: February 6
Time: 3:30 p.m. PST
Station: KGO (ABC)
Washington, D.C.
Date: February 12
Time: noon EST
Station: WJLA TV (ABC)
Cleveland, Ohio
Date: February 12
Time: 1 p.m. EST
Station: WKYC TV (NBC)
Atlanta, Georgia
Date: February 19
Time: noon EST
Station: WGCL (CBS)
Baltimore, Maryland
Date: February 19
Time: 12:30 p.m. EST
Station: WMAR (ABC)
These dates and times may change due to breaking news.
Download or pick up our health guidebook
We also have a Caring for Your Family's Health: A Guide for African Americans guidebook. It includes a toolkit to help members track their family's health history, medications, checkup dates, and other information. The guidebook includes nutritious, low-fat recipes, and wellness information resources. Members may pick up a copy of Caring for Your Family's Health: A Guide for African Americans at their medical facility, or download the guidebook.°
*QuickTime 5.0 or higher is required to view this video file. To download the latest version of QuickTime for Macintosh or Windows, visit Apple.com.
° You will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to read this file.
About Kaiser Permanente
Kaiser Permanente is committed to helping shape the future of health care. We are recognized as one of America’s leading health care providers and not-for-profit health plans. Founded in 1945, our mission is to provide high-quality, affordable health care services and to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve. We currently serve 8.6 million members in nine states and the District of Columbia. Care for members and patients is focused on their total health and guided by their personal physicians, specialists and team of caregivers. Our expert and caring medical teams are empowered and supported by industry-leading technology advances and tools for health promotion, disease prevention, state-of-the art care delivery and world-class chronic disease management. Kaiser Permanente is dedicated to care innovations, clinical research, health education and the support of community health. For more information, go to: www.kp.org/newscenter.
