ROCHESTER — Last month, a group of Somali and Latino community members came together to display their photography in a group exhibition. The photographers aimed to show others what they care about most when it comes to health and well-being.
The photo exhibit was one of many research projects facilitated by the Rochester Healthy Community Partnership, a collaborative group that is now in its 20th year of engaging local immigrants in public health research.
"The broad problem statement that we've been working on ... is that, as a broad generalization, immigrants or refugees arrive to Rochester, arrive to Minnesota, arrive to the United States healthier than the general population in terms of cardiovascular risk," said Dr. Mark Weiland, an internal medicine physician and chair of Mayo Clinic's Division of Community Internal Medicine, Geriatrics and Palliative Care. "But then, the longer they live here, the more they exceed that risk in conjunction with the social and structural determinants of health..."
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