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3299.0: Monday, November 06, 2006: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM | |||
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| This session will address innovative health education and health care interventions designed to overcome social, cultural and institutional barriers that limit access by refugee and immigrant populations. Speakers will discuss providing linguistically and culturally appropriate health care, addressing health concerns of newly-arrived Somali Bantu refugees, using a social justice and human rights-based model for health care delivery, employing web-based information networks to expand access to health care information, preventing violence among immigrant Latino youth and employing violence prevention curriculum to address dating violence. | |||
| Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) will be able to: 1. Articulate criteria for evaluating health care programs for refugee and immigrant populations; 2. Identify key elements of innovative programs, including technology, for delivering health care to refugees and immigrants; 3. Describe strategies to integrate bilingual and bicultural outreach for community health services; 4. Discuss the advantages of using a human rights model for delivering health care to refugees and immigrants. | |||
| Scott Parsons, JD | |||
Refugee Resettlement and Public Health Challenges: The Experience of Somali Bantu Refugee Resettlement ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} Sergut Wolde-Yohannes, MEd, Magda Ahmed, EdD, Halima Ali, MA, Bana Abubakar, MS, Samia Mafal, MA, Marisa Chiang, MPH, Thinh Nguyen, Dejene Ayele, MPH, Jennifer Cochran, MPH | |||
| A multi-level social justice model for promoting refugee mental health Jessica R. Goodkind, PhD, Ann Githinji, MS, Chao Sio, BS, Jason Radak, MS | |||
| Expanding access to culture and language appropriate information: The web-based Refugee Health Information Network John Scott, MS, Jennifer Cochran, MPH, Gale Dutcher, MLS | |||
| An intervention to address community-modifiable factors related to violence prevention among immigrant Latino youth Mark C. Edberg, PhD, Sean Cleary, PhD, MPH, Joanne Klevens, MD, PhD, Alex Taylor Del Cid, PhD, Isaac Castillo, MS, Elizabeth Collins, MPH, Eugenio Arene, MA, Gabriel Albornoz, MA | |||
| Innovative and empowering community approaches to prevent dating violence: Evaluation results from a young women's leadership and peer advocate program Stella Gran-O'Donnell, MPH, MSW | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Caucus on Refugee and Immigrant Health | ||
| Endorsed by: | Asian Pacific Islander Caucus of APHA; Latino Caucus; Medical Care; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Socialist Caucus | ||
The 134th Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 4-8, 2006) of APHA