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3061.0: Monday, November 05, 2007: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM | ||||
Oral | ||||
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| This session describes a variety of strategies utilized to reduce health disparities. Specific strategies include assessing the needs of specific populations, implementing targeted community-based interventions, and shifting the concept of diversity in an institute of higher education. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: At the end of the session, the participant will be able to: 1. Identify partnerships that address the community’s health disparities 2. Describe successful interventions to reach targeted populations. | ||||
| Moderator(s): | Mario Browne, MPH | |||
| 8:30 AM |  | Provide Culturally Competent Messages to Latinos That Lead to Ownership of Accessible Resources in Their Community Carmen Ramos-Watson | ||
| 8:45 AM | | Cultural perceptions of acute coronary syndrome in an urban setting: Time from onset of symptoms of ACS to arrival at emergency room Mrunalini Deshmukh, MD, Niko Verdecias, MPH, Michael Joseph, PhD, MPH, Edmond S. Malka, MPH, Wanda Torres, Judith H. LaRosa, PhD, RN | ||
| 9:00 AM | | Community Planning Toolkit to Prepare Vulnerable Populations for Emergencies Kristy Alison Kade, MPH, Gilbert Nick, Loris J. Elqura, MS, Elena Savoia, MD MPH, Howard K. Koh, MD, MPH | ||
| 9:15 AM | | North Carolina Trimming Risk in Men (TRIM) Project: Formative research to assess the potential for promoting cancer prevention in Black barbershops John M. Rose, MA, Laura Linnan, ScD, Veronica Carlisle, MPH, Jiang Li, Pamela Diggs | ||
| 9:30 AM | From diversity and cultural competence to inclusive excellence: Ideas and insight from the dialogue in higher education for eliminating inequities and health disparities Kathleen M. Roe, DrPH, MPH, Edward Mamary, DrPH, MS | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | ||||
| Organized by: | Public Health Education and Health Promotion | |||
| Endorsed by: | Black Caucus of Health Workers; Caucus on Refugee and Immigrant Health; Latino Caucus; Maternal and Child Health | |||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | |||
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