Back to Annual Meeting
Back to Annual Meeting
|
Back to Annual Meeting
|
|
Back to Annual Meeting
|
APHA Scientific Session and Event Listing |
4294.0: Tuesday, November 06, 2007: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM | ||||
Oral | ||||
| ||||
| This session aims to identify different responses disaster like natural occurences, international terrorism, and other issues like disease pandemics or war and conflict. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: Learn about community level response to natural disaster. Identify how to reach vulnerable populations in an emergency. Discuss creating emergency responses for African-Americans. Identify factors associated with preparedness behavior. | ||||
| Organizer(s): | Lindsay Abraham, MPH | |||
| Moderator(s): | Jamila Rashid, PhD, MPH | |||
| 4:30 PM |  | Higher ground: Community-level response to a natural disaster and long-term impacts on health and identity in rural North Carolina Anne M. Morris, Jiang Li | ||
| 4:50 PM | | Reaching the unreachable and least prepared populations Adenike Bitto, MD, DrPH, CHES, Michelle Davis, PhD, MPH | ||
| 5:10 PM | | Creating emergency preparedness and response messages for African Americans Sheryl D. Taylor, MPH, Kalahn Taylor-Clark, PhD, MPH, Brunilda Torres, MSW, Beverley Russell, PhD | ||
| 5:30 PM | Factors associated with preparedness behavior for natural disasters and terrorism among low-income African Americans in Maryland Myrtle Evans-Holland, DrPH (c), MSPH | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | ||||
| Organized by: | Black Caucus of Health Workers | |||
| Endorsed by: | APHA-Committee on Women's Rights; Community Health Workers SPIG; HIV/AIDS; Latino Caucus; Socialist Caucus | |||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | |||
The 135th APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 3-7, 2007) of APHA