Activists and Religious Groups
Informal counseling and support
Culturally competent health education
Advocacy
Capacity building on individual and community levels
First aid and emergency assistance
Promotores(as) effectively address many barriers to better health for underserved populations. Some of their accomplishments include (Migrant Health Promotion, 2005):
Improving access to services
Helping people understand the health and social service system
Enhancing client and health provider communication
Increasing appropriate rates of service utilization
Decreasing costs for organizations and government programs
Improving adherence to health recommendations
Reducing the need for emergency and specialty services
Improving overall community health status
Promotores(as) accomplish these and other outcomes by providing education and advocacy and building capacity in their communities (Migrant Health Promotion, 2005).
Fotonovelas Fotonovelas are imaged-based interventions that are popular among Mexicans and Latin Americans. Fotonovelas are illustrated with photos, and these comic books with complex perspectives and dark imagery have had a long history and a far-reaching impact within the Latino and Chicano communities in the United States as well as Mexico and Latin America, where they continue to thrive in the popular culture (Independent Television Service, 2008).
In the United States, the fotonovela/historieta has a distinct manifestation in the Chicano/Latino community, providing a unique idiom through which the community addresses social concerns using a highly innovative visual language (Independent Television Service, 2008). Because of its popularity and flexibility, the fotonovela has been used in increasingly fresh ways by visual artists and writers to address important social issues within the Chicano/Latino community (Independent Television Service, 2008). Activists and religious groups also have turned to the form as an organizational tool for outreach and education, and to induce someone to convert to their own religious faith or political party. Fotonovelas are becoming more commonly used in public health as a way of delivering health information in a more creative manner. A representative from the Rural Women’s Health Project ([RWHP] n.d.) stated:
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