Call for Abstracts - APHA Annual Meeting 2006
Community Health Planning and Policy Development
The CHPPD section invites abstracts related to the conference theme, "Public Health and Human Rights" and to areas of special interest to health planners and related fields. Topics include, but are not limited to the following:
- Advocating for Public Health: successful models for enacting policy, regulations and/or legislation by working with coalitions, legislators and policy makers at local, state and federal levels
- Developing public health infrastructure to address acts of terrorism, infectious disease epidemics and natural disasters.
- Environmental impact on chronic conditions and as impediments to health prevention
- Environmental, community and behavioral approaches to reduce diabetes and obesity
- Evaluating policy impacts on access to care, e.g. HIPAA
- Innovative approaches to health promotion and disease prevention in the areas of cancer, heart disease, women’s health issues and domestic violence
- Issues related to managed care, Medicaid, Medicare and the uninsured, focusing on reducing barriers and disparities inadequacy of and access to care for disenfranchised populations, including the working poor, elderly, uninsured, homeless, and prisoners
- Methodological techniques and tools utilized in health care planning, policy development and evaluation, e.g. strategic planning, outcomes research, needs assessments, and qualitative methods
- Partnerships in policy development, planning, regulation, implementation of health care, and evaluation, e.g. incorporating the community’s voice, public/private partnerships, networks, community-academic partnerships
- Prevention and Service to individuals at risk for or living with HIV/AIDS
- Public Health and Human Rights as a community health issue
- Serving cultural and linguistic minorities through public health and partner organizational cultural competency and proficiency, including addressing the issues of health literacy and language access.
- Use of the Internet, telecommunications, mapping, etc. for health care planning, policy development and evaluation
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 students and those who have never presented at an APHA meeting to become "new presenters" in 2006. Be sure to indicate whether you are a "new presenter" or "student" on your submission.
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