Call for Abstracts - APHA Annual Meeting 2005
Community Health Planning and Policy Development
The CHPPD section invites abstracts related to the conference theme, "Evidence-based Policy and Practice" and to areas of special interest to those associated with health planning and health policy in any venue. Topics include, but are not limited to the following descriptions:
- Promoting Child Health: From the Womb Through Childhood
- Regional Public Health Collaborations
- Abstinence, Abortion and Emergency Contraception: Responding to Unintended Pregnancy When Politics and Science Don't Mix
- Academic Partnerships Working with Communities
- Academic and Public Health Partnerships
- Achievements in Strengthening Public Health Workforce Capacity and Infrastructure
- Acknowledging Culture in Health Education
- Addressing Disparities in Pregnancy Outcomes: The Role of Evidence-based Policy and Practice
- Addressing Public Health Problems Through Health Education and Health Promotion
- Advanced Technology as a Planning and Evaluation Tool
- Alternative and Complementary Health Practices among Women and Minority Populations
- Alternative and Complementary Health Practices and Chronic Diseases
- American Indian and Alaska Native Youth
- Applying Evidence-based Findings to Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
- Applying Outcome-based Evaluations and Innovative Approaches to Improve Prenatal Care
- Assessing Barriers to Healthful Behaviors
- Assessing and Treating Mental Illness in Primary Care
- Assessments and Practices in Refugee and Immigrant Health
- Asthma: An Important School Health Issue
- Asthma: Environmental Triggers And Lessons Learned
- Balancing Long-term Care: Impacts of the New Freedom Initiative on Access to Home and Community-based Services
- Best Practices: American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians
- Bioterrorism: In Rural Communities and Family Preparedness
- Body, Mind, and Spirit in Public Health: Caring for the Whole Person
- Building Evidence for a Systems Approach to Improve Environments for Healthy Eating and Physical Activity
- Building Evidenced-based Practice for HIV Prevention
- Built Environment Institute II: Assessing The Urban Built Environment To Promote Physical Activity & Health
- Built Environment Institute Roundtable: Physical and Social Environment's Impact on Health
- CHPPD: General Membership Meeting and Candidates
- CHPPD: New Member Orientation and Policy Development
- CHPPD: Nominations, 2006 Planning and Other Issues
- CHPPD: Section Council Meeting and Program Planning
- CHPPD: Social Hour, Networking and Awards
- CHWs as Integral Members of the Healthcare Team
- Cancer Prevention and Control to Promote Latino Health
- Certificate of Need Challenges: Improving Quality, Meeting Needs and Assuring Access
- Challenges of Nutrition and Overweight for Today's Health Educator
- Child Nutrition and Physical Activity At and Away from School
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health: The Role of Violence, Poverty, and Juvenile Justice Involvement
- Civil Rights, Ethics and Public Health
- Clinical Issues in Aging
- Communicating with Patients and the Public
- Communities Addressing Asthma: Working to Improve the Environment and Patient Care
- Communities Working Together for Prevention and Improved Health Awareness
- Community Assessment and Local Initiative to Promote Healthy Communities
- Community Based Chronic Care Services: A Planning and Implementation Model for Evidence Based Improvements at Community and Practice Settings
- Community Based Program Health Services
- Community Change Models: Preventing Adolescent Pregnancies, STDs, HIV/AIDS
- Community Food Assessments: Tool for Public Health & Community Empowerment
- Community Partnerships: Working Together to Improve Health
- Community-based Models for Promoting Latino Health
- Creative Approaches to Preventing Infectious Diseases through Vaccinations
- Critical Elements in Planning School Prevention Programs
- Critical Issues in Women's Health: A Multicultural Perspective
- Cultural Awareness in Health Education
- Cultural Diversity, Health and Aging
- Current Issues in HIV Counseling and Testing
- DHHS' Rapid Assessment, Response, and Evaluation (RARE) Methodology for HIV/AIDS Prevention Efforts Among Baltimore City Youth
- Diabetes and Obesity: The New Epidemic of the 21st Century
- Diabetes: Prevention and Management with Special Attention to Socioeconomic and Cultural Issues
- Disparities in the Consequences of Drug Use among Minority Populations: Need for Culture-Specific Interventions
- Drinking Patterns in Special Populations: Innovative Approaches
- Emergency Preparedness and Public Health Capacity Building
- Emerging Evidence in Disability and Health Promotion
- Emerging Issues in Tobacco Control
- Emerging Trends in Drinking Patterns and Policy Implications
- Empowering Girls and Women: Creating Opportunities for Decision Making
- Environmental Influences on Aging Well: Enhancing Healthy Living through Better Design and Access
- Environmental Justice: Recognizing The Problem To Forge A Solution
- Environmental and Health Concerns In Risk Communication
- Evaluation of a 4-year Project to Improve Access to Care for Residents
- Evidence Based Alternative and Complementary Health Practice Research
- Evidence of the Environment's Relationship to Health
- Evidence-based Approaches to Understanding and Improving Pregnancy Outcomes
- Evidence-based Models of Child Care Health Consultant Programs for the Prevention of Asthma, Child Maltreatment and Obesity
- Evidence-based Programs to Promote Health and Prevent Disease
- Evidenced Based Planning: Theory vs. Practice
- Expanding Our Concept of Health Promotion, Disease Prevention
- Exploring Health Disparities
- Extinguishing Myths about Smoke-Free Mental Health/Substance Abuse Facilities
- Fighting for National Health Care in a Right-Wing Environment
- First 5 California: Providing Evidence to Support Funding and Policy Decisions, Program Improvement, and Future Planning.
- Genital Herpes Epidemic: Rethinking Testing, Treatment, and Prevention
- Growing Prevalence of Alternative and Complementary Health Practices: Challenges and Opportunities for Professionals and Consumers
- HIV Prevention Research: A Focus on Bisexual Men
- HIV Prevention with Positives
- HIV Risk among Adolescents: Issues and Responses
- HIV and HCV Prevention for Young Adult IDUs: Findings from the CIDUS III/ Drug Users Intervention Trial (DUIT)
- HIV/AIDS Prevention: Infrastructural Support
- HIV/AIDS/STI: Prevention to Care
- HIV/AIDS/STI: Prevention to Treatments
- HIV/AIDS: Across Multiple Communities and Populations
- HIV/AIDS: Care and Prevention across Diverse Settings
- HIV/AIDS: Contemporary Issues
- HIV/AIDS: Innovative Approaches to Outreach and Partnership
- Health Access for Vulnerable Populations
- Health Care Access
- Health Care Issues for Home and Work
- Health Disparities Among LGBT Populations
- Health Education Challenges in the Hispanic Community
- Health Education for the Aging Consumer
- Health Services Use and Adherence Behaviors among Older Adults
- Health of women in the community justice system and prison
- Healthy People 2010: 2005 Midcourse Review Data Results and Methodological Issues
- Healthy School Nutrition Environments
- Helping the Uninsured to Access Services and Medications
- Hispanic Workforce Studies
- How Environment Can Affect Health: A Selection of Health Outcomes
- How to Make Health Education Work
- Improved Care Through Innovative Approaches: Medication Assistance, Dental Care, Transportation
- Improving Access to Health Services for Immigrants and Migrants
- Improving Access to Maternity Health Services
- Improving Pregnancy Outcomes
- Increasing Long-term Sustainability by Building in-house Capacity in Evaluation: Community/Academic Partnerships
- Infrastructure Development as Preparedness for Bioterrorism
- Injecting Drug Use and HIV: Findings from Research and Practice
- Injury Prevention Program and Policy Evaluation
- Innovations and Interventions in Health Education
- Innovations in Biostatistical Methods and Applications
- Innovations in Community Health
- Innovations in Community Nutrition Assessment
- Innovative Approaches to HIV/AIDS Intervention
- Innovative Approaches to Improve Healthy Outcomes for Children
- Innovative Approaches to Substance Abuse and Domestic Violence
- Integration of Family Planning & HIV/AIDS Services
- Intimate Partner Violence
- Issues Relating to the Cultural Competency of the Public Health Workforce and Partnership Organizations
- It is about the Sex: STD Epidemiology
- Latina Reproductive Health in the United States
- Latino Adolescent Sexual Health
- Latino Health: The Pennsylvania Model for Building Capacity
- Managing Chronic Diseases Among American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians
- March of Dimes NICU Family Support: Incorporating and Building Communities
- Maternal Mental Health Issues in Pregnancy, Postpartum, and Early Childhood
- Maternal and Child Health issues for American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians
- Measuring Ethics, Values and Morals in Health Care
- Mental Health Access and Treatment among Hispanics
- Methodological Techniques Expanding into Advanced Technologies and Utilizing the Web for Program Planning, Development and Evaluation
- Methodological Techniques and Tools Utilized in Health Care Planning, Policy Development and Evaluation-I
- Methodological Techniques and Tools Utilized in Health Care Planning, Policy Development and Evaluation-II
- Methodological Techniques and Tools Utilized in Health Care Planning, Policy Development and Evaluation-III
- Multicultural and other important considerations for breast and cervical cancer screening
- Neighborhood Health Messengers: Improving Health Outcomes and Building Community Leadership
- New Findings in Nutrition and Physical Activity for a Healthy Population
- Novel and Creative Approaches in Health Education
- Obesity Law and Policy
- Occupational Respiratory Disease: Surveillance and Solutions
- Our Healthcare Workforce and Infrastructure: Is it Doing the Job?
- Outcomes and Evaluation of CHW Programs
- Overcoming Barriers to Improve Health Care for Minorities, the Uninsured and Underserved
- Partnerships and Methodologies for Planning and Expanding Services
- Partnerships in Policy Development, Planning, Regulation, Implementation of Health Care, and Evaluation-I
- Preventing Alcohol-Related Problems through Effective Policies
- Preventing, Tracking and Serving STDS, HIV/AIDS, TB, Hepatitis C
- Prevention Programs Addressing Childhood Obesity
- Prevention and Intervention with Pregnant and Parenting Teens
- Prevention of Aging Complications
- Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission
- Problem Products & Problem Outlets: Issues and Strategies Regarding Alcohol Sales at the Community Level
- Programmatic Impacts of Evidence-based Policy
- Promoting Quality in Federal, State and Local Public Health Systems
- Public Health Informatics
- Public Health Strategies To Address Problems in Children and Other Community Based Groups
- REJECTED ABSTRACTS
- Race and Gender: HIV/AIDS within Vulnerable Communities
- Race, Ethnicity and Social Status: Realities of Seeking Solution for the Underserved
- Race, racism, and race-based medicine: Current issues
- Reaching Out Of The Box: The Collaboration of Environmental Health Programs With Communities
- Reaching Out with Prevention and Service to Individuals At-risk or Living With HIV/AIDS
- Reaching the Hispanic Consumer
- Reducing Oral Health Disparities
- Reflections on Hurricane Katrina with an Eye to the Future: How can Sections and SPIGS Prepare for Future Public Health Disaster Events?
- Responding to the Bayou Disaster: Health Care for Evacuees
- Risk and Protective Factors for Adolescent Substance Use
- Role of Ethnicity, Gender, and Development in Drug Use, Violence, and HIV Risk
- Roundtable Discussions on Ethnicity, Gender and Drug Use
- STD Prevention and Public Health Policy: Diverse Challenges, Diverse Opportunities
- School Safety and Youth Violence
- Screening and Prevention: From Cancer to Cardiovascular Disease
- Serving Cultural and Linguistic Minorities in the Community with Evidence-based Programs
- Serving Cultural and Linguistic Minorities with Evidence-based Programs
- Sex in the Cities: Sexual Relationships, Communication and Decision Making among African American and Puerto Rican Young Adults
- Smoking Cessation Interventions in Special Populations
- Social Justice
- Sociocultural Determinants of Latino Health
- Statistical and Modeling Techniques for Health Outcomes Research
- Strategies for Addressing Cancer in Diverse Populations of Women
- Strategies to Address Health Problems in Community Based Groups
- Strategies to Improve the Outcomes of Public Health Nursing Interventions
- Studies in Insurance, Health Care Utilization and Their Impacts (Health Economics Contributed Papers #2)
- Successful Leadership Development of Practitioners, Faculty and Students
- Survey Research and Quantitative Methods for Health Care Services and Research
- Systems of Care for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs
- TB DOTS Programs Around the World
- Terrorism and Public Health
- The Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center: The Use of Innovative Partnership Approaches to Reduce Health Disparities
- The Development, Impact, and Future Needs of Interactive Web-based Data Dissemination Systems for Public Health Data: Tools for Community Health Assessment and Policy Development
- The Guides to Clinical and Community Preventive Services: Evidence-based Policy and Practice Across the Prevention Spectrum.
- The Obesity Epidemic: Getting Beyond Individual Choice
- The Synergism of Environment and Health
- Tobacco Use in Young Adults
- Toward Effective Reproductive Health Programs: Challenges and Lessons
- Transdisciplinary Approach to Integrating Primary Care and Behavioral Health
- Transgender Health
- Unhealthy Populations: Obesity and Lack of Physical Activity are Key Factors
- Unique Challenges for HIV/AIDS and Youth
- Using Health Education to Improve the Public's Health
- Using Technology to Promote Evidence-based Needs Assessment, Priority Setting and Intervention Planning at the State and Local Levels
- VPH and the One-Medicine Initiative
- Vaccine Preventable Disease Epidemiology
- Violence Across the Life Span & Populations: Intimate Partner Violence; HIV/AIDS, Down-Low, etc.; Practice& Interventions
- Violence Prevention in Families and Communities
- Violence Prevention in Families and Community
- WAIT LIST
- WITHDRAWN/Incomplete
- What Counts as Evidence and To Whom? A Progressive Critique of Evidence-based Public Health Data
- What Do Alcohol, Tobacco, Other Drugs, Physical Inactivity, and Mental Health Disorders Have in Common?
- Workforce Issues in Public Health
- Worksite Health Promotion
- Young Adults' Challenge to Health Education
Abstracts should be of 250 words or less. Referral to web pages or URLs may not be used for abstracts. For any and all inquires always refer to the abstract by your abstract number as assigned to you on-line.
This section encourages those who have never presented at an APHA meeting to become "new presenters" in 2005. Be sure to indicate whether you are a "new presenter" or "student" on your submission.
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