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5182.0: Wednesday, November 07, 2007: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM | ||||
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| This session focuses on efforts to prevent chronic and infectious disease and promote health among adolescents. It begins with an overview of neighborhood effects on childhood overweight and concludes with presentations on interventions for prevention of chronic and infectious diseases. The first intervention utilizes the internet to help teens lose weight. The second intervention involves a back-to-school collaborative to boost immunization rates. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: Examine the effect of the neighborhood environment on the prevalence of overweight in children and adolescents. Understand the opportunity and role for promoting health among adolescents via the internet. Identify key steps to initiating a collaborative and implementing a community event to promote adolescent health. | ||||
| Organizer(s): | Lacy M. Fehrenbach, MPH | |||
| 2:30 PM |  | Teen Weight Loss Club website: Its use in addressing obesity in adolescents Alexis S. Lieberman, MD | ||
| 2:55 PM | | Overweight Children: Assessing the Contribution of the Neighborhood Environment Irina B. Grafova, PhD | ||
| 3:20 PM | | Bee wise, immunize™ - A back-to-school collaborative Cheri Rufener | ||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | ||||
| Organized by: | Maternal and Child Health | |||
| Endorsed by: | Chiropractic Health Care | |||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | |||
The 135th APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 3-7, 2007) of APHA