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Session: Innovative Community Health Worker Models
2046.0: Sunday, November 04, 2007: 4:30 PM-5:30 PM
Poster
Innovative Community Health Worker Models
CHW SPIG would like to offer an extra poster session on Sundday which would describe innovative projects that are using Community Health Workers. Demonstrating the project, outcomes and differences the project is making.
Organizer(s):Anne Willaert, BS, LSW
Board 1Value of a promotora-led diabetes education class for Latinos as part of the Chronic Care Model
Eric J. Gertner, MD, MPH, Hannah D. Paxton, RN, BSN, Lynn M. Deitrick, RN, PhD, Lissett Lahoz, BS, Nyann Biery, MS, Alicia Rivera, BA, Deborah Muro, Cynthia Atamian, BA
Board 2A peer cunseling best practices model for diabetes management support among Latinos: The DIALBEST trial
Sonia Vega-López, PhD, Sofía Segura-Pérez, MS, RD, Grace Damio, MS, Jyoti Chhabra, PhD, Darrin D'Agostino, DO, MPH, Jane Querido, RD, CD-N, CDE, Maria-Luz Fernandez, PhD, Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, PhD
Board 3Promotoras role in improving health outcomes and data collection: Findings from a diabetes self-management program among Latino patients
Carlos L. Flores, MPH(c), Joan Thompson, PhD, MPH, RD, Claire Horton, MD, MPH
Board 4Data management and evaluation for a large-scale Community Health Worker project
Jason Salas
Board 5Emerging Role of Community Health Workers as Leaders, Educators, and Liaisons for Their Communities
Carlos A. Ugarte, MSPH, Liany Elba Arroyo, MPH, Emilia M. Leal Gianfortoni
Board 6Taking health into our own hands: Outcomes of a prostate cancer project
Theresa Wynn, PhD
Board 7Role of community health workers in evaluating a Hmong nutrition education project
Patricia Wakimoto, DrPH, RD, Barbara Sutherland, PhD, Susan Donohue, MA, RD, Mai Yang
Board 8Social-ecological obesity prevention: Measuring systemic interpenetration and multi-level impact of investing in promotoras human, social and political capital
Araceli Fernández-Cerdeño, MS, Barbara Baquero, MPH, John Elder, PhD, MPH
Board 9Constructing a policy-based strategy for Community Health Workers: Promotora's Preparedness Network
Mercedes Duchicela, MPH
Board 10Engaging Promotores and Community Health Workers in Public Health Preparedness
Dana Marie Telg, MPH, S. Kay Carpender, D. Mercedes Duchicela, MPH, Crystal Stewart, Anna Graham, BA
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Organized by:Community Health Workers SPIG
Endorsed by:APHA-Committee on Women's Rights; Community-Based Public Health Caucus; Women's Caucus

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