Doctor and female supporter Helen Rodriguez Trias will celebrate the 89th birthday today. Google is celebrating Google Doodle
Born on July 7, 1929, Robert Riggs Trias provided better medical care for women and children through her career from those affected by HIV and AIDS to victims of abuse. Rodriguez triath is a member of the Latin American AIDS committee in New York and died of cancer complications in 2001.
Trias was born in New York and moved to Puerto Rico. So she attended medical school and graduated with the highest honor. She later returned to New York City as the director of pediatrics at Lincoln Hospital in South Bronx.
Dr. Rodriguez Trias is the first President of the American Public Health Association's Hispanic American woman.
Helen Rodriguez Strias The Social Justice Award is awarded to those who are committed to APHA's "improving the health and well-being of underprivileged people and disadvantaged people".
"I hope that in my life, we realize that we are more and more the world," she said. "Everyone can not have the quality of life unless we support the quality of life for everyone, not based on goodwill, it's based on a true commitment, a threat."
Rodriguez triath received her medal from President Bill Clinton as "an enthusiastic pediatrician, excellent educator and a lively leader of public health."
Rodriguez Trias with four children established a nursing center during hospitalization and reduced her hospital newborn mortality by 50% within three years.
As a doctor, Helen Rodriguez Trias has established a health center and clinic to service women and children in poor communities. As an activist, she is one of the strongest leaders who challenge suspicious medical practices, and she is deprived of her patient's right to serve. Statements about women's health over decades of Rodriguez Strias are still very important, as today's healthcare and abortion rights are a major controversy. A frank discussion on the health of women's women in Rodriguez Strias will make doctors and activists aware of the differences between wealthy women and low-income women, and the additional challenges faced by women in the US healthcare system. Her words answered today's political discourse about the body of the woman and reminded people that these arguments still have to exist.
Helen Rodriguez was born in New York in 1929. In the early days I stayed in Puerto Rico and when I was 10 years old I went back to New York with my family. She grew up in New York as a Puerto Rican and experienced racial discrimination and individual discrimination. Rodriguez-Trias graduated from Puerto Rico University in 1957, became a student activist there, dealing with issues such as freedom of speech and independence of Puerto Rico. Later she got into Puerto Rico University again to study medicine. And it "combines my favorite things, science and people."
Dr. Helen Rodriguez-Trias is a founding member of the Women Core Group of the American Public Health Association.
Rodriguez triath set up the first center for new born babies born at San Juan University Hospital in Puerto Rico. In the meantime, she saw the difference in how low-income, wealthy women abort, and how this difference determines the success of surgery. She works hard to take care of a woman attempting herself to abortion herself. And that sometimes leads to the death of a woman. "We have a private doctor and got a lot of sniper from a white woman who wants to sterilize Because of their identity (unmarried) or the number of children (usually doctors are too few) They refused the sterilization request and they dispute the waiting period or other regulations that they believe restrict access.The young white middle class women are deprived of the sterilization requirements, Low-income women of race are misunderstood or mandatory.