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Session: Other Issues of Importance to CHWs
3085.0: Monday, November 05, 2007: 10:30 AM-11:30 AM
Poster
Other Issues of Importance to CHWs
Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives
Board 1Improving health outcomes through community-based approaches to capacity building assistance
Natille Duncan, MSEd, MIT, Mark A. Colomb, PhD, CRA, Angela Johnson, MPPA
Board 2Healthy families, healthy homes
Gabriela Gonzalez, Monic Uriarte, Nancy Halpern Ibrahim, MPH
Board 3Working with community medicine distributors: Support and motivation
Ebony Quinto, Dr, Betty Mpeka, Dr, Margaret Kyenkya, Ms, John Tumwesigye, Dr
Board 4Participatory communication, community health, and social change - The story of a Community Health Workers Initiative in Miami
Mikele Aboitiz-Earle, Maritza Concha, MA, Maria Elena Villar, MPH
Board 5CHWs delivering healthcare in the Thar Desert, India
Prakash Tyagi
Board 6Leveraging the services of lay health volunteers to increase access to insecticide-treated bednets
Betty Mpeka, Dr, Margaret Kyenkya, Ms, Samson Kironde, Dr, Xavier Nsabasagani, Mr, Nosa Orobaton, Dr
Board 7Implementation of a statewide asthma training institute: Training Lay Health Educators in six target areas in Illinois in asthma management
Helen Margellos-Anast, MPH, DeShuna Dickens, MPH, AE-C, Gloria Seals, Steven Whitman, PhD
Board 8Community health worker advocacy study
Ashley B. Wennerstrom, MPH, Jill De Zapien, Maia Ingram, MPH, Samantha Sabo, MPH
Board 9Improving access to primary health care using community health workers: Results from the Healthy Connections Project
Andrea Leinberger-Jabari, MPH, Diana K. DuBois, MPH, MIA, Sagal Isse, Nellie Johnson, Jessie Hendel
Board 10Root of the Iceberg or Tip of the Ice Peak: Two Perspectives on Effective Community Health Work
Anne Ganey, MPH, Cecil Gassis, CHW
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Community Health Workers SPIG
Endorsed by:APHA-Committee on Women's Rights; Community-Based Public Health Caucus; Women's Caucus

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