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Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Tuesday, November 06, 2007



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6:30 AM-8:00 AM Tue
   286.0Epidemiology Section Business Meeting #4
   377.0Community Based Public Health Caucus - Business Meeting
   379.0MCH Leadership Committee Meetings
   380.0OHS Section Business Meeting
   381.0HIV/STDs/Teen Pregnancy Prevention Task Force

7:00 AM-8:00 AM Tue
   382.0Business Meeting
   383.0Medical Care Section Business Meeting #4
   384.0Mental Health Section Business Meeting II
   385.0PHEHP Business Meeting 2
   386.0PHN Nursing Meeting
   387.0SHES Section Council Meeting: All Members Welcome
   388.0Social Work Business Meeting

8:00 AM-10:00 AM Tue
   4000.0Helen Rodriguez-Trias Breakfast

8:30 AM-10:00 AM Tue
   4001.0Using Population and Facility Data to Understand Emerging Drug Abuse and Mental Health Phenomena: New Findings from SAMHSA's Office of Applied Studies
   4002.0Media Matters: Exploring Media as a Tool for Preventing Tobacco Use
   4003.0ATOD Late-Breaker Session: The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent and Reduce Underage Drinking
   4004.0Research Approaches and Evidence in Alternative and Complementary Health Practices
   4004.1Wisdom of the Elders
   4005.0Women Prisoners: Dignity, Advocacy, and Health
   4006.0Recruitment and Retention of Public Health Workforce
   4007.0Maternal and Child Health (Technology Theater Sessions)
   4008.0Quality Improvement Workshop: Tools to Identify Root Causes of Problems
   4009.0Community Based Genomic Medicine: A Human Rights Perspective
   4010.0Trade Policy, Tobacco and Medicines
   4011.0Ending Homelessness Through State and Local Planning and the Impact of Supportive Housing
   4012.0Health Care for All: How Faith Traditions Can Interact and Be Political to Lead to Health Care for All
   4013.0Unveiling the Hidden Truth: Barriers to Health Care among Immigrants and Refugees
   4014.0Advancing Community-based Public Health: The Application of Innovative Methods, Strategies, and Tools In CBPR
   4015.0Utilizing Principles of Community-Based, Participatory Collaboration to Create Culturally Competent Genetics Education Resources for Diverse, Underserved Populations
   4016.0The Role of Policy and Policy Research in the Elimination of Cancer Disparities: Models, Examples, and Advocacy
   4017.0Health Information Technology to Improve Outcomes for Medically Underserved Populations
   4018.0New National, Local and State Issues that Affect Community Health Workers
   4019.0Disability and Health 1
   4020.0Bugs, Drugs, and Flu: Human Health Impacts of Intensive Animal Agriculture (jointly organized by the Environment and Food & Nutrition Sections)
   4021.0Built Environment II: Housing and Health: Patterns of Residential Health and Safety Hazards and Successful Intervention Strategies in Urban and Rural Communities
   4022.0Using the National Environmental Public Health Performance Standards to Improve Agency Capacity
   4023.0Environmental Epidemiology
   4024.0Diabetes Epidemiology
   4025.0Invited Session: Improving Research and Policy on Violent Death Prevention through Public Health Surveillance: Findings from the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS)
   4026.0Late Breaking Policy Issues
   4027.0 Ethical Issues in Public Health Practice
   4028.0WCRF-AICR 2nd Report on Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Prevention of Cancer: A Global Perspective
   4029.0A Comprehensive Approach to Obesity Prevention by an Integrated Health Care Delivery System: Kaiser Permanente's Health Eating Active Living Initiatives
   4030.0Healthcare Practices and Utilization among Older Adults
   4031.0Integrated Long-Term Care: What Can we Learn from Other Countries?
   4032.0Health Care in the New Millennium: Politics, Policy and Public Health
   4033.0Financial Risk in the Health Care Industry: Emerging Models for Financial Risk Management
   4034.0Public Health Finance: Analyzing, Measuring and Categorizing Investments in the Public Health System
   4034.1Innovations in Health Information Technology
   4035.0Public Health Law & Powers During Public Health Emergencies
   4036.0Politics and Policy of Implementing HIV Testing
   4037.0Prevention Strategies and HIV Risk Sexual Behaviors in Africa
   4038.0Politics and Policy Surrounding HIV Testing
   4040.0Youth Violence Prevention and Interventions
   4042.0Combating Malaria: What Works?
   4043.0Conflict and Public Health: A Framework for Conceptualizing Their Interconnections
   4044.0Global Concerns and Actions to Address Pandemic Influenza
   4045.0Water, Water, Everywhere: Is it Safe to Drink?
   4046.0Substance Use and Substance Use Treatment Issues Among LGBT Individuals
   4047.0Infant Mortality Risk Reduction Among Diverse Populations: From Research to Action
   4048.0Healthy Child Care America: Building Partnerships to Support the Healthy Development of Young Children
   4049.0Improving Children's Health Through Policy and Financing Strategies
   4050.0Genetics and Newborns Screening: Practice, Policy and Ethics
   4051.0Approaches For Evaluating Preconception Care Interventions
   4052.0Breastfeeding Programs and Evaluation
   4053.0Symposium on Mental Health and Jail Diversion
   4054.0Organization and Financing of Mental Health Care
   4055.0Oral Health Policy and Programs
   4056.0Diabetic Foot Management - The result of Diabetic foot conditions on public health care and management of said conditions to improve health care
   4057.0Will It Really Be Health Care for All? Ensuring that 'Universal Health Coverage' Includes RH Services
   4058.0Policy Issues Related to Assisted Reproductive Technologies
   4059.0Communication Strategies to Influence Policy Makers: The Role of Media Advocacy in Policy and Social Change
   4060.0Successful Strategies in Worksite Health Promotion
   4061.0Health Promotion in Minority Populations
   4062.0Discussion: Physical Inactivity and Other Causes of Obesity
   4063.0Health Promotion and Young Adults
   4064.0Making a Difference in Public Health through Politics
   4065.0Environmental Health
   4066.0Roundtable, Education
   4067.0Innovations in School Asthma Programs
   4068.0State Policy Action for School Health and Wellness: Joint SHES & FN Session
   4069.0Politics, Policy and Public Health: Student Perspectives
   4070.0Broadening teaching about health inequities and social justice
   4071.0Student Paper Session Featuring Johns Hopkins University
   4072.0Evidence Based Policy, Racial Disparity and Practice In Eye Care
   4073.0Examining Influential Factors on Women's Health Policy and Politics

9:00 AM-12:30 PM Tue
   390.0Governing Council Session II

10:30 AM-12:00 PM Tue
   4074.0Children & Adolescent Health: Is Policy Failing Our Kids?
   4075.0The History & Future of Public Health: Science, Politics and Policy
   4076.0Money Changes Everything: Insulating Public Health Research From Conflicts of Interest
   4077.0Climate Change: A Challenge to Public Health

12:30 PM-1:30 PM Tue
   4078.0Smoke-Free Air
   4079.0Tobacco Policy
   4080.0Tobacco Cessation
   4081.0Tobacco Cessation II
   4082.0Youth Tobacco Issues
   4083.0Youth Tobacco Issues II
   4084.0Evaluation of Tobacco Programs
   4085.0Tobacco Posters
   4086.0Tobacco Posters II
   4087.0ATOD Posters
   4088.0Current Issues in Public Health: Poster Session
   4089.0Diverse Issues in Community and Public Health: Poster Session
   4090.0Cultural Competency and Health Literacy: Poster Session
   4091.0Disability, Health and Health Promotion PS 1
   4092.0Disability, Health and Health Promotion PS 2
   4093.0Disability, Health and Health Promotion PS 3
   4093.1Disability, Health and Health Promotion PS 4
   4094.0Posters on Emergency Preparedness
   4095.0Posters on Injury, Politics and Policies
   4096.0Posters on Motor Vehicle-Related Injuries
   4097.0Posters on Injuries and Violence in Vulnerable Populations
   4098.0Latinos and health Disparities
   4099.0Access to Health Care: Implications for Policy
   4100.0Social Justice & Public Health: Student Posters
   4101.0Statistics Poster Session

12:30 PM-2:00 PM Tue
   391.0Human Rights Open Forum
   4102.0Addressing the Impending Public Health Workforce Shortage
   4103.0Alcohol Use, Sales, and Prevention of Problems at Professional and Intercollegiate Sport Stadiums
   4104.0What's the Mix between Policy Decisions and Alcohol Damage: International, National and State Perspectives
   4105.0ATOD Late Breaker Session: Improving Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services to Returning Veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan: Dialogue Between Returning Veterans and Service Providers and Other Health Professionals
   4106.0Native Hawaiians and Health Policy
   4106.1Unnatural Causes Is Inequality Making Us Sick?
   4107.0Progress in Credentialing of Graduates of Accredited Schools and Programs in Public Health
   4108.0APHA Film Festival - US Made Film Festival: Session I
   4109.0Balderson Leadership Awards
   4110.0Workforce development for accreditation and quality improvement
   4112.0Launching Your Career in Public Health
   4113.0Innovative Theories and Methodologies to Improve the Health of AAPI Populations
   4113.1Eliminating Health Disparities by Preventing Chronic Disease
   4114.0Evidence-based Policy and Practice on Homelessness
   4115.0Collaboration and Partnerships with The Faith Community to work on Global Health Rights
   4116.0New Epidemics and the Challenge of Chronic Disease
   4117.0Success Stories: Community-Based Public Health Efforts to Inform Politics, Policy, and Public Health (e.g., Social and Environmental Justice)
   4118.0Strategies to Prevent Risk Behaviors
   4119.0When Programming, Policy and Action Come Together: A Local Solution to Access Barriers
   4120.0Promoting Health through Community Partnerships
   4121.0CHWs as Integral Members of the Health Care Delivery Team
   4123.0Environmental Public Health Tracking: Information to Guide Practice and Policy
   4124.0Children's Environmental Health: Toward Sustainable Understanding, Interventions, and Policies Worldwide
   4125.0Meeting the Environmental Health Needs of Native American and Alaska Native Communities
   4125.1The Common Ground of Food, Nutrition, and Ecological Health (jointly organized by the Environment and Food & Nutrition Sections)
   4126.0Injury Epidemiology
   4127.0Infectious Disease Surveillance
   4128.0Invited Session: Using Immunization Information Systems for Vaccination Assessment and Programmatic Policy Development
   4129.0Symposium. Protecting Patients and Participants: Does It Matter Whether It's Research or Public Health Practice? (Organized with the Joint Policy Committee, Societies of Epidemiology)
   4130.0Asthma in School Children and Minority Populations
   4131.0 Public Health Science, Ethics, Policy, and Politics
   4132.0Value Enhanced Nutrition Assessment (VENA) in WIC: Creating New Policy and Guidance to Maximize WIC’s Role as a Premier Public Health Nutrition Program
   4133.0The School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study (jointly-organized by the Food and Nutrition & School Health and Education Sections)
   4134.0Environment and Aging
   4135.0Clinical Issues and Aging
   4136.0Health Care Finance: Partnership, Collaboration and/or Solo?
   4137.0Model Programs for Community Health Practice
   4138.0Disparities in Health in America's Social Justice System
   4139.0Health Care and Public Health Leadership Development
   4140.0Advancing Health Care Through the Adoption of EMR/PHR
   4141.0HIV Research and Intervention Issues among Latinos
   4142.0Methodological Considerations for Recruitment, Data Collection, and Assessment in HIV Research
   4142.1Unintentional Injuries
   4143.0Student Panel: Original Work in Primary Health Care and HIV/AIDS
   4144.0Getting the Message Through: Using Communication to Achieve Impact
   4145.0Enlisting the Private Sector in Combating Communicable Diseases
   4146.0Martha May Eliot Awards Luncheon
   4147.0Universal Access to Care
   4148.0Medical Care Section Student Paper Award Session
   4149.0Applications of Health Economics to Provider Shortages & Hospital Behavior
   4150.0Social Sciences in Health: Social Dimensions of Disease Burden Across the Lifespan
   4151.0Mental Health and Medical Comorbidity
   4152.0Hearing on APHA Policy Actions for Electronic Health Records and Personal Health Records
   4153.0Career Development in Public Mental Health
   4154.0Mental Health and Criminal Justice
   4155.0OHS Awards Luncheon
   4156.0Is Prophylactic Removal of Wisdom Teeth a Public Health Hazard? Evidently
   4157.0War and Public Health: Part 2
   4158.0Pediatric Foot Conditions and Outcomes With Treatment - Examine pediatric podiatric pathologies and their outcomes with treatment and the overall affect on quality of life of a child as they grow into adulthood
   4159.0Constructive Male Engagement and RH in the US
   4160.0'Conscious Clauses' to Understanding Health Care Denials as Violations of Standards of Care
   4161.0Propositions, Politics and Providers: Advocating for RH in the 2006 Elections
   4162.0PHEHP Awards Luncheon
   4163.0Public Health Nursing Luncheon
   4164.0Roundtable: Innovative Strategies for School Health