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Dr. Bill Releford, Founder, The Black Barbershop Health Outreach Program
Los Angeles, California Apr 03, 2012
//vimeo.com/20061440″ title=”About Dr. Bill James Releford”>Dr. Bill James Releford, owner of a Black Barbershop Health Outreach Program, was recently featured on //www.youtube.com/watch?v=jovj18MW_B8″ title=”Dr. Releford Featured on BNC Nightly News”>NBC’s Nightly News with Brian Williams. Dr. Releford discusses a health issues of African American men and how he uses internal barbershops around a nation to assistance assuage a impact of health disparities.
About Dr. Bill J. Releford
//www.drreleford.com” title=”Dr. Bill J. Releford”>Dr. Bill J. Releford, a podiatric surgeon formed in Los Angeles, is a connoisseur of a Temple School of Podiatric Medicine in Philadelphia. He began his use in 1990 and determined a Diabetic Foot Institute. As a podiatric surgeon formed in Los Angeles, Dr. Releford specializes in diabetic prong deliver to assistance revoke a unusual high series of diabetes-related amputations gifted by African Americans. The astronomical amputation rate in a African American village desirous Dr. Releford to dedicate his life to building innovative medical as good as advocacy strategies to boost health recognition and diminution diabetes and a amputation rate in underserved communities.
Dr. Bill J. Releford, launched dual innovative initiatives to residence health disparities in a African American community. //www.blackbarbershop.org” title=”The Black Barbershop Health Outreach Program”>The Black Barbershop Health Outreach Program was launched Oct of 2007 out of a need to residence health caring disparities among African American men with a idea to screen, teach and impute men to internal health caring resources. Additionally, Dr. Releford authored a book “The 5 Colors a Day to Better Health” in Feb 2009 to residence a miss of recognition about healthy food choices and a consequences of building diabetes and other ongoing diseases. “The 5 Colors a Day to Better Health” introduces a elementary approach for people of all ages to select improved dishes to foster improved health. The book is a substructure of Dr. Releford’s inhabitant debate to quarrel diabetes, plumpness and high blood pressure. To assistance people grasp their health goals and objectives, a aptness member and a cooking device have been grown that will concede bustling people a event to ready healthy dishes for their families.
Dr. Releford and his efforts have recently been highlighted in a Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek Magazine, The View, The Doctors, The Today Show and more. Additionally, Dr. Releford’s innovative village organizing strategies culminated into an invitation from President Obama to attend final year’s White House Super Bowl Party.
About The Black Barbershop Health Outreach Program
The idea of a Black Barbershop Health Outreach Program is to commission African American men to improved know diabetes, cholesterol and hypertension and how to forestall a growth and complications. In addition, Dr. Releford discusses correct food choices and practice as a required member to prevention. The module is a brainchild of Dr. Releford, as he became augmenting undone with how tough it was to strech many African American men when it came to medicine health caring measures. Dr. Releford motionless that he would take health caring to his brothers and get them to get screened in a environment that they felt gentle in … a Barbershop.
Since a inception, a module has screened over 30,000 men in 26 cities in over 475 black owned barbershops. The BBHOP’s idea for 2012 is to shade over 25,000 men in 50 cities in over 750 barbershops. Ultimately, a idea is to shade over 500k men by a year 2014 and assistance residence a jagged series of African American men with undetected cardiovascular disease.
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