3390.0 Park Hill Thriving Communities - Community Health Study

Monday, November 8, 2010: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Oral
This session discusses the environmental strategies for healthy eating and active living done by the Denver Department of Environmental Health. Here they discuss methods used to understand and identify gaps, and strategies created to fulfill these gaps in terms of health education as well as environmental and policy approaches for encouraging healthy behavior.
Session Objectives: At the end of this session, participants will be better able to 1.Identify at least two community-level policy or environmental strategies related to healthy eating or active living. 2.Describe at least one step to engage community residents and partners in policy development efforts. 3.Asses both individual and community needs for health education
Moderator:
Stacey McConlogue, MPH

4:30pm
Park Hill Thriving Communities—Denver Department of Environmental Health: A community-based initiative to address policy and environmental factors to support healthy eating and active living
Stacey McConlogue, MPH, Kim Riley, MPH and J. Elaine Borton, MPH, CHES
        
4:50pm
Park Hill Thriving Communities- Denver Department of Environmental Health- the Bike Depot: From neighborhood to city-level impact
Stacey McConlogue, MPH and Laurie Hanselmann, Managing Director
  
5:10pm
Park Hill Thriving Communities—Denver Department of Environmental Health: From image to action renovations in the City of Axum Park
Stacey McConlogue, MPH, J. Elaine Borton, MPH, CHES and Kim Riley, MPH
  
5:30pm
Park Hill Thriving Communities—Denver Department of Environmental Health: Denver Healthy Food Access Initiative
Stacey McConlogue, MPH and Brian Lang, BA
     

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Organized by: Community Health Planning and Policy Development

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

See more of: Community Health Planning and Policy Development
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