Block By Block, A Campaign To Combat Diabetes

It started with a simple medical survey in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on Chicago’s near Northwest side whose results were reported in the Journal of Epidemiology in 2006. The rate of Type 2 diabetes in Humboldt Park was 14 percent, double that for Americans nationwide. For Puerto Ricans in the neighborhood, the rate was even worse: 21 percent. The community didn’t sit back…