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5194.0: Wednesday, November 07, 2007: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM | ||||
Oral | ||||
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| Health education and health promotion is a broad term which incorporates planning, implementing, and evaluation many types of interventions. This session will discuss health education/health promotion programs targeting diabetes, the process of passing a health policy, factors associated with the intent to call 9-1-1, where and how communication can be used to impact smoking behaviors of adolescents, and a theoretical model of walking duration. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: At the end of the session, the participant will be able to: 1. Identify new strategic techniques to implement health education and health promotion programs. 2. Describe theorectical and policial models for sucessful interventions. | ||||
| Moderator(s): | Lisa M. Carlson, MPH, CHES | |||
| 2:30 PM |  | Know your abc's: An effective diabetes health promotion program for people who are medically underserved Dewana Allen, MPH, John Yannessa, PhD, Edwin C. Marshall, OD, MPH, Kelli Barker, MSW | ||
| 2:45 PM | | How health care policy and entertainment education can help to close the gap of cancer health disparities Harold Freeman, MD, Michael Miller, MPH, MS | ||
| 3:00 PM | | Factors contributing to awareness of the necessity to call 9-1-1 for stroke symptoms in residents from Upstate, New York Janine M. Jurkowski, PhD, MPH, Dayna M. Maniccia, MS, Steven J. Samuels, PhD, Deborah A. Spicer, RD, MPH, Barbara A. Dennison, MD | ||
| 3:15 PM | | Theoretical model of US walking duration and validation using 2003 American time use survey data Tracy Lynn Washington, MA, Ida Van Schalkwyk, MS, Simon Paul Washington, PhD, Catrine Tudor-Locke, PhD | ||
| 3:30 PM | | Mealtime conversations: Does one family meal a week make a difference in the prevention of and attitudes concerning smoking behaviors? Laura V. Bland, Dixie L. Clayton, Sabra J. West, Jessica L. Muilenburg, PhD, William D. Johnson, PhD, Lucy Annang, PhD | ||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | ||||
| Organized by: | Public Health Education and Health Promotion | |||
| Endorsed by: | Gerontological Health; Maternal and Child Health | |||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | |||
The 135th APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 3-7, 2007) of APHA