León, Gto., March 7, 2017.- To provide strategies to the community of Guanajuato in health; five students of the University of Guanajuato (UG) of the Degree in Nursing and Midwifery of Campus Leon, venue Guanajuato, made an academic exchange in Ashland, OR; with the School of Nursing of Oregon Health and Science Society.

In the exchange participated students from both schools, where they had a three week stay. The college students intervened in community projects where they watched the strategies employed to attend the health problem of each city. In addition, they participated in sociocultural activities organized by the Latin community in Ashland.

The institutions where the students participated are the Wellness Clinic Center, West Medford Clinic and Head Start Phoenix Center.

With this kind of exchange, they seek to develop social impact projects, among which there is a youth suicide prevention program, as well as the elaboration of a survey that allows to measure the knowledge of the parents towards the health of the five-years old, and finally, a high impact project on the wellbeing of the people with Type 2 Diabetes, in collaboration with the Mexican Association of Diabetes Santa Fe de Guanajuato.

The students in the exchange were: Diana Laura Calderón Rodríguez, Jessica Itzel Celaya González, Jordan Daniel Juárez Jaime, Ángel Miguel Rocha & Miriam Segoviano López. Led by Dra. Ma. Teresa Pratz Andrade, a professor-researcher of the Department of Nursing and Midwifery, venue Guanajuato.