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Session: Planning: Public Health Practice and Policy in Urban Communities
5165.0: Wednesday, November 10, 2004: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Oral
Planning: Public Health Practice and Policy in Urban Communities
To have a vision of healthy people in healthy communities is possible if all facets of America's society work together to develop capacity standards for infrastructure for population health at the local and other levels and evaluate the policy implications in the planning process.
Learning Objectives: Identify the critical components of public health infrastructure at the local and other levels and policy implementation included in the public health planning process level.
Presider(s):Ellen Alkon, MD, MPH
2:30 PMLinking Policy and Evidence in Health Services Research: A Strategy for Managing Information to Maximize Public Health Leadership in Policy-Making
Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau, PhD, Stephen H. Linder, PhD
2:48 PMCapacity standards in a diverse environment: Possible and beneficial?
Prue Bagley
3:06 PMIntegrating Personal and Public Health: The Los Angeles County Model
Ellen Alkon, MD, MPH, Jonathan Fielding, MD, MPH, Richard Kratz, MD, MPH, Jeffrey Guterman, MD, MS, Sandra Gross-Schulman, MD, MPH, RN
3:24 PMUtility of the Environmental Scan for Public Health Practice:Lessons from an Urban Program to Increase Cancer Screening
Randolph Rowel, PhD, Richard N. Scott, MD
3:42 PMDeveloping a Community Liaising Program in Los Angeles County
M. Ricardo Calderón, MD, MPH
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Health Administration
Endorsed by:Maternal and Child Health
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

The 132nd Annual Meeting (November 6-10, 2004) of APHA