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4215.0: Tuesday, November 06, 2007: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM | ||||
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| This session will present a variety of timely issues relating to epidemiologic methods that are important for public health planning and practice. Presentations will focus on compliance with infection control guidelines in assisted living facilities, the prevalence of carbon monoxide detectors in households, determining the number of condoms needed in high schools, demographic estimation after Hurricane Katrina and the importance of considering health disparities in HIV/AIDS and STD surveillance and prevention. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) in this session will be able to: 1) Identify deficiencies in assisted living facility (ALF) compliance with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) bloodborne pathogen standard; 2) Understand the relationship between having a CO detector in the household and other measures of public health preparedness; 3) Calculate the estimated condom need for local populations based on available epidemiologic data; 4) Develop demographic methods for producing population estimate counts in addition to prevalence-based indicators in post-disaster environment where Census data is unreliable; and 5) Communicate the process a state health department utilized to quantify the association between poverty and HIV/AIDS and STD surveillance data to gain information for prevention planning. | ||||
| Moderator(s): | Steven Godin, PhD, MPH | |||
| 2:30 PM | Welcoming Remarks | |||
| 2:35 PM |  | Sticking it to them: Infection-control practices in Virginia assisted living facilities Ami S. Patel, PhD, MPH, Joseph Perz, DrPH, MA, Mary Beth White-Comstock, RN, CIC, Diane Woolard, PhD, MPH | ||
| 2:50 PM | They're either prepared or they're not! Prevalence and risk factors for the presence of carbon monoxide alarms in Maine households Judith M. Graber, MS, Prashant Mittal, MS, MSc, Andrew E. Smith, ScD | |||
| 3:05 PM | | NYC Department of Health high school condom availability program: How many condoms are enough? Philip M. Alberti, PhD, Erum K. Hadi, MPH | ||
| 3:20 PM | | Epidemiologists become demographers in a disaster: Health and demographic estimation after Hurricane Katrina Gregory Stone, MS, Alden K. Henderson, PhD | ||
| 3:35 PM | | Health disparities and planning in Virginia: Poverty, HIV/AIDS, and Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) Carrie Dolan, MPH, Chris Delcher, MS | ||
| 3:50 PM | Discussion | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | ||||
| Organized by: | Epidemiology | |||
| Endorsed by: | Statistics | |||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | |||
The 135th APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 3-7, 2007) of APHA