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NOTE: Sessions listed in italics have been organized by another section, SPIG, or caucus but are endorsed by Medical Care.


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Sunday, November 04, 2007

4:30 PM-5:30 PM Sun
   2049.0Medical Care Poster Session: Ethnic & Racial Disparities (Poster)

Monday, November 05, 2007

8:30 AM-10:00 AM Mon
   3015.0Beyond the Ivory Tower: Designing Effective Interventions for Immigrants and Refugees (Oral)
   3052.0Rural, Frontier, & Urban Health (Oral)
   3053.0Opportunity & Danger: Health Research in American Prisons (Oral)
   3053.1Health Care & Population Health: Can Payment Reform Help Bridge the Gap? (Oral)
10:30 AM-11:30 AM Mon
   3084.0Global Migration and Health Care among Immigrants and Refugees (Poster)
   3086.0Medical Care Poster Session: Health Services Research (Poster)
10:30 AM-12:00 PM Mon
   3142.0Performance Measurement in Communities: Bringing Health Care & Public Health Information Systems Together for Population Health Improvement (Oral)
12:30 PM-1:30 PM Mon
   3183.0Adolescent Programs in the US (Poster)
12:30 PM-2:00 PM Mon
   3204.0Health Disparities among Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities in the US (Oral)
   3231.0Quality Improvement at the National & State Levels (Oral)
   3232.0How Should We Rein in Health Care Costs, and When Can We Start? (Oral)
   3233.0Ethnic & Racial Disparities Among Patients With Chronic Disease (Oral)
   3234.0Women's Health & Gender-Based Research & Policy (Oral)
2:30 PM-4:00 PM Mon
   3303.0Trade Policy Analysis and Health (Oral)
   3344.0Understanding HCAHPS: The New, National, Standardized Survey of Hospital Patients' Perspectives of Care (Oral)
   3345.0Ethnic & Racial Disparities: Communication, Pediatrics, & Prenatal Care (Oral)
   3346.0Quality Improvement & Hospital Performance (Oral)
   3347.0Drug Safety & Public Health: Legislative Changes to Reform the FDA (Oral)
4:30 PM-5:30 PM Mon
   3371.0Implications of Alcohol Use and Dependence: Trends, Interventions, and Treatment (Poster)
4:30 PM-6:00 PM Mon
   3423.0Update on Health Services Research: Introducing the new CMS Chronic Condition Data Warehouse (Oral)
   3425.0How Can We Make Oral Health a Much Higher National Priority: Power, Policies and Politics!! (Oral)

Tuesday, November 06, 2007

8:30 AM-10:00 AM Tue
   4010.0Trade Policy, Tobacco and Medicines (Oral)
   4013.0Unveiling the Hidden Truth: Barriers to Health Care among Immigrants and Refugees (Oral)
12:30 PM-1:30 PM Tue
   4079.0Tobacco Policy (Poster)
   4084.0Evaluation of Tobacco Programs (Poster)
   4086.0Tobacco Posters II (Poster)
12:30 PM-2:00 PM Tue
   4105.0ATOD Late Breaker Session: Improving Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services to Returning Veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan: Dialogue Between Returning Veterans and Service Providers and Other Health Professionals (Oral)
   4147.0Universal Access to Care (Oral)
   4148.0Medical Care Section Student Paper Award Session (Oral)
   4149.0Applications of Health Economics to Provider Shortages & Hospital Behavior (Oral)
   4150.0Social Sciences in Health: Social Dimensions of Disease Burden Across the Lifespan (Oral)
   4166.0National Health Care: Heating Up in an Election Cycle (Oral)
2:30 PM-3:30 PM Tue
   4182.0Medical Care Poster Session: Drug Policy, Health Economics, Rural/Frontier Health, & Universal Access (Poster)
   4183.0Medical Care Poster Session: Jail/Prison Health, Quality Improvement, Social Sciences, & Veterans Health (Poster)
   4184.0Medical Care Student Poster Session (Poster)
2:30 PM-4:00 PM Tue
   4227.0The World as a Global Village: Financing Health Care (Oral)
   4241.0Health Services Research: Patient & Employee Characteristics (Oral)
   4242.0P Ellen Parsons Memorial Session: Congressional Update on Hot-Button Issues (Oral)
   4243.0Social Sciences in Health: Cultural & Class Sensitivity in Clinical Settings/Encounters (Oral)
4:30 PM-6:00 PM Tue
   4306.0Long-Term Care and Aging (Roundtable)
   4316.0Avedis Donabedian Award in Quality Improvement Session (Oral)
   4317.0History & Politics of Regulating Harm: Tobacco, Lead, & Bisphenol A (Oral)
   4318.0Veterans' Health (Oral)
6:30 PM-8:00 PM Tue
   4336.0Evening with Carolyn Clancy & Presentation of the Viseltear Award to Allan M. Brandt (Social)

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

8:30 AM-9:30 AM Wed
   5003.0Public Health Perspectives on Trade & Health (Poster)
8:30 AM-10:00 AM Wed
   5061.0Applications of Health Economics to Health Behaviors & Outcomes (Oral)
   5062.0Drug Policy & Pharmacy Services (Oral)
   5063.0Health Services Research: Access, Utilization, & Costs of Medicaid Services (Oral)
12:30 PM-2:00 PM Wed
   5095.1Public Health and Trade Policy (Oral)
   5128.0Quality Improvement: Product Safety, Workers Compensation, & Community Efforts (Oral)
   5129.0Social Sciences in Health: Health Promotion Among Underserved, Hard-To-Reach Populations (Oral)
2:30 PM-4:00 PM Wed
   5183.0Health Services Research: Cost Analyses (Oral)
   5184.0Ethnic & Racial Disparities: Hospital System Level Solutions (Oral)

The 135th APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 3-7, 2007) of APHA