5236.0: Wednesday, November 15, 2000: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM

Innovative Approaches to Chronic Disease in Vulnerable Populations

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement.
Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives
Facilitator(s):Sheri Cohen, MPH
4:30 PMQuality improvement and community health planning: working with Medicaid and Public Health to reduce health disparities
Gretchen L. Kinder, MSW, MPH, Lauren J. Toolin, MS, Esta Lee Stone, BA, MS, OTRL, Kate Alich, MS, RD
4:42 PMA community-based program in the Mississippi Delta for chronic disease management
Dennis A. Frate, PhD, Monroe C. Ginn, MA, Lela Keys, BA
4:54 PMImplementing "Heart and Sole", a biopsychosocial approach to cardiac risk factor reduction, in an urban minority community
Eileen Stuart-Shor, RN, MS, CS, Marc C. O'Meara, RD, BS, Doris Cort, MS, Daniel Forman, MD, Angela Nannini, PhD, RN, CS
5:06 PMEvaluating National Diabetes Control Program disparity reduction efforts: implications for states and communities
Marc A. Safran, MD, Dara L. Murphy, MPH, Qaiser Mukhtar, PhD
5:18 PMImproving quality of care practices for diabetes in practices serving African Americans: A community-based intervention approach
Barri Braddy Burrus, PhD, Janet Reaves, RN, MPH, Stuart Cohen, EdD, Kenneth Wolpert, PA
5:30 PMHealthy Eating and Exercising to reduce Diabetes (HEED): A Community-based Partnership Approach to Diabetes Prevention from the Detroit Urban Research Center
Amy J. Schulz, PhD, MPH, Murlisa Robinson, BA, Deborah Kleinman, MPH, Marjorie Rodgers, Alex Allen, BA, Angela Odoms, PhD
Sponsor:Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Cosponsors:Caucus on Refugee and Immigrant Health; Food and Nutrition; Social Work

The 128th Annual Meeting of APHA