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JAINA CONVENTION 2011
Help live Healthy..... Nitin Shah, MD, Kinjal Shah MS IV
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Health is the Best Wealth One Can Ever Have! Nitin Shah, nitinshahmd@gmail.com; 562-244-9035 The goal of this article is to provide you with one concrete way of giving that wealth to someone- by organizing a health fair in your local community. This article is written to inspire YOU, regardless of what field you are in, to encourage healthier habits in your community. We all want to help others in some way! When it comes to health we generally believe that one has to be in a healthcare profession to help! Not true! Than what exactly does it require? Is it money? No! Than what does it take to organize a free community health fair?
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I have had the pleasure of organizing more than 100 health fairs in Southern California over last 20 years. I will describe here how I go about organizing these fairs and give you plenty of tips so that you can setup a health fair for your local community!
Key Ingredients for a Successful Health fair:
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Desire - It all starts with a desire of either one person or a group of people to do something for their community. Few healthcare professionals at Jain Center of Southern California in Los Angeles got together to offer the community the advantage of screening services for free & that is how the Health Fairs came into existence for me in LA area! Jain Center had their 21st Annual Health Fair on March 27, 2011! This is due to the unwavering desire of an organization to help people have annual checkups and live healthier lives!
II. Dedication -Our recent Santa Ana health fair took place at an Attorney's office! An undergraduate student had a desire to do a health fair in Santa Ana. She could not find any place to have the fair even after six weeks of diligently searching for a location. But she
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