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Session: Chronic Diseases and Cancer Alternative and Complementary Health Practices
3396.0: Monday, November 05, 2007: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
Oral
Chronic Diseases and Cancer Alternative and Complementary Health Practices
This session brings together topics about disease assessment, management and care. Authors will be discussing details about Alternative and Complimentary Health Practices (ACHP) among people with chronic diseases and cancer such as: 1) Exploring implications of CAM use among asthma patients; 2) Ranking the most commonly used ACHP’s for special health care needs including Autism; 3) Understanding barriers to and facilitators or ACHP in Cancer care. Please join us for lively discussions around cancer and chronic disease care issues topics to Alternative and Complementary Health Practices.
Learning Objectives: 1) Identify determinants of CAM use in asthma management; 2) Describe CAM use in children with special health care needs (SHCN); 3) Assess Alternative and Complementary Health Practices (ACHP) in cancer care;
Moderator(s):Anne M. Doherty-Gilman, MPH
4:30 PM   Asthma and the influence of other chronic diseases as determinants of CAM use: Clinical and Public Health policy implications
Ava Joubert, MD, DrPH(c), Joy P. Nanda, DSc, MS, MHS
4:50 PM   Alternative and complementary health practices for children with special health care needs and disabilities: Patterns of use and communication with physicians
Paula M. Minihan, PhD, MPH, Barbara Popper, M Ed, Betsy Anderson, Sara Rakaczky, MS/MPH, Aviva Must, PhD
5:10 PMBarriers and facilitators to implementation of integrative medicine clinical research in an urban cancer hospital
Anne M. Doherty-Gilman, MPH, Elizabeth Dean-Clower, MD, MPH, Weidong Lu, MB, MPH, LicAc, Ramel Rones, David S. Rosenthal, MD
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Alternative and Complementary Health Practices
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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