Session: Community-based Approaches to Address Disparities in Food and Activity Environments (jointly-organized by the Food and Nutrition & Environment Sections) part 2

APHA Scientific Session and Event Listing

3219.0: Monday, November 05, 2007: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM

Oral

Community-based Approaches to Address Disparities in Food and Activity Environments (jointly-organized by the Food and Nutrition & Environment Sections) part 2

Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives

Organizer(s):

Sonya Jones, PhD

Moderator(s):

Sonya Jones, PhD

12:30 PM

Access to Healthy Restaurants in North Nashville, Tennessee
Bola Teyinka, Sarah Niebler, MA, Celia Larson, PhD, David Schlundt, PhD

12:50 PM

East New York Food Co-op:The growing pains of starting a community owned food store in an urban food desert
Salima Jones-Daley, Laura Sanzel, Kimberly B. Morland, PhD, Richard Bordowitz, MD, MPH, Susan W. Filomena, Anjana Sharma, BA

1:10 PM

Design of a church based dietary intervention using community-based participatory research (CBPR) methods
Brook E. Harmon, MS, RD, Jaclyn Guess, Swann Arp Adams, PhD, Marcie Wright, MPH, Isabel I. Law, RN, Yvonne Sharon Gladman, Loutrina Staley, James R. Hebert, ScD

1:30 PM

Methods to stimulate community action using GIS mapping with local data collection to assess food availability and marketing in low-income neighborhoods
Alyssa Ghirardelli, MPH, RD, Valerie Quinn, MEd, Ellen Feighery, RN, MS, Mathew Stone, MPH, Sharon Sugerman, MS, RD

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by:

Food and Nutrition

Endorsed by:

APHA-Committee on Women's Rights; Caucus on Refugee and Immigrant Health; Community-Based Public Health Caucus; Environment; Maternal and Child Health

CE Credits:

CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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