2044.0: Sunday, November 04, 2007: 4:30 PM-5:30 PM |
Poster |
Innovative Health Interventions that Meet Immigrants and Refugees' Needs |
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| Board 1 | | | Control your health: A low-literacy, interactive educational program for Somali refugee women with chronic diseases
Ellyn R. Mulcahy, PhD, MPH, Carla Buchheit |
| Board 2 | | | Latinas and weight control: The role of “buddy systems” in promoting Latinas' physical activity
Nancy Bruning, MPH, Anahi Viladrich, PhD, Ming-Chin Yeh, PhD |
| Board 3 | | | Beyond language barriers and access to care: Less mental health care utilization by immigrants in primary care
Khelda S. Jabbar, MD, Jennifer Tran, BA, Tali Averbuch, MPP, Jane M. Liebschutz, MD MPH, Jeffrey H. Samet, MD, Richard Saitz, MD, MPH |
| Board 4 | | | Food and Nutrition Outreach for newly arrived refugees
Bethann Witcher Cottrell, PhD, Rachel O'Hara |
| Board 5 | | | Improving health literacy through community access cable television: Experiences from the Somali TV Project
Diana K. DuBois, MPH, MIA, Laura C. Ehrlich, MPH, Andrea Leinberger-Jabari, MPH, Abdulkadir Osman |
| Board 6 | | | Supporting recent immigrants in their effort to access information on health and health-related services: The case of 211 Toronto
Andrea A.M. Cortinois, Mr, Alejandro R. Jadad, Dr, Nadia Caidi, Dr, Richard Glazier, Dr |
| Board 7 | | | Improving latent tuberculosis infection treatment completion rates in refugee communities through the use of organized education, outreach and follow-up
Joseph Johnson, MPH, Laura Hardcastle, BS |
| Board 8 | | | Bringing the gap between rural Hispanics and health care services: Individual and community impacts of a community-based medical interpreters training program
Marcela Garces, MD, MSPH, Sergio Cristancho, PhD, Ben Mueller, MS, Karen E. Peters, DrPH |
| Board 9 | | | Outreach and Human Trafficking: Lessons Learned From Community Collaborations
Michael B. McKee, MEd |
| Board 10 | | | Treating an invisible population: Providing culturally competent care to newly arrived Liberian refugees
Osato F. Chitou, MPH, Katherine McFarlane, BS |
| For more detailed information click here |
| Organized by: | Caucus on Refugee and Immigrant Health |
| Endorsed by: | APHA-Committee on Women's Rights; Health Administration; Latino Caucus; Women's Caucus |
