Epidemiology

NOTE: Sessions listed in italics have been organized by another section, SPIG, or caucus but are cosponsored by Epidemiology.

Monday, November 13, 2000

12:30 PM-2:00 PM Mon
3002.0Human Papilloma Virus: Public Health, Sociopolitical and Therapeutic Controversies ()
3006.0Poster Session: American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian Caucus ()
3007.0Diabetes, Hepatitis B, and TB among Asian Pacific Islanders ()
3008.0Addressing the underrepresentation of monorities with Masters and Doctorate Credentials to solve problems of disparity ()
3009.0Farmworkers and Border Health ()
3013.0Measuring Disability, Participation, and Environmental Factors ()
3015.0Breast Cancer Epidemiology: Insights into Disparities ()
3016.0Evaluation of Surveillance Systems and Their Impact ()
3017.0Prevention Efforts for Hepatitis A and B ()
3019.0Nutritional Epidemiology: Sum Effects ()
3031.0Topics in firearm injury ()
3032.0Motor vehicle and bicycle-related injury ()
3033.0Injury surveillance and outcomes ()
3039.0Substance Use among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Populations ()
3040.0Adolescent Behavior: Healthy Choices or Risky Attitudes? ()
3042.0Emerging Issues in Midwifery Care ()
3045.0Reducing Health Disparities: Social and Behavioral Factors in Treatment and Health Promotion ()
3050.0Adherence and Psychotropic Medication in Mental Health Treatment ()
3054.0Occupational Stress: Our Experiences, the Lessons Learned, and the Way Forward, Part I ()
3055.0Responding to Domestic Violence: Dental and Opthalmologic Concerns ()
3062.0Breast and cervical cancer screening and education ()
3068.0Human Sexuality Programs: Comprehensive versus Abstinence-only, Processes and Issues ()
3071.0Balancing Health Disparities, Social Inequalities and Structural Inequities ()
3072.0A System for Successfully Surveying Health Care Providers ()
2:30 PM-4:00 PM Mon
3081.0Issues in Chronic Disease Management in Native Populations ()
3089.0Infant Health and Mortality among Asian Pacific Islanders ()
3098.0Women with Disabilities: Data to Interventions ()
3102.0Cardiovascular Disease in Special Populations ()
3103.0Epidemiologic Methods: Focusing on Health Disparities ()
3104.0Topics in Perinatal Epidemiology ()
3105.0Strategies for Post-Marketing Surveillance ()
3106.0Challenges and Responses in Immunization Programs ()
3108.0International challenges to ethics in relation to biomedical research: Revising the CIOMS guidelines ()
3118.0Teen Drivers: Issues and Challenges ()
3119.0Domestic Violence ()
3124.0Factors Influencing Perinatal and Childhood Mortality in the U.S ()
3128.0Breast Cancer Screening ()
3130.0Mental Health Issues in Vulnerable Populations ()
3142.0Health Care Financing Administration-Sponsored Research: Promoting Women's Health Through Preventive Services ()
3146.0Bioterrorism: Public Paranoia or Public Health Threat? ()
3147.0Race/ethnicity and the Year 2000 census: implications for public health data (part 1) ()
3148.0Healthy People 2000: Y2K is Here - How Did We Do? ()
3149.0Vietnam Caucus: Scientific Session I ()
4:30 PM-6:00 PM Mon
3160.0Women and Their Nicotine Affairs ()
3168.0Cancer Prevention and Control Programs in Native Populations ()
3170.0Cardiovascular Disease among Asian Pacific Islanders ()
3172.0Addressing health concerns affecting the African American Youth ()
3173.0Substance Use Issues among Homeless Adults and Youth ()
3177.0Using Measurements and Data to Improve Health ()
3183.0Recent Trends in Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Poster Session ()
3184.0Epidemiology Section Awards: Wade Hampton Frost Lecture, John Snow Award, Abraham Lilienfeld Award ()
3191.0Motor Vehicle Occupant Protection ()
3192.0Firearm injuries ()
3194.0The Epidemiology of Human Rights Abuses ()
3195.0Impact of and Responses to the HIV/AIDS Pandemic ()
3199.0Poster Session: Health Status and Disparities Affecting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Communities ()
3201.0Strategies for Violence Reduction in the Family and Community ()
3202.0Women's Health Watch: A Critique of Current Policies ()
3203.0International Perspectives on Reproductive Health ()
3204.0Issues in Pregnancy and Health ()
3205.0Home Visiting and Parent Support ()
3206.0Evidence-based Maternity Care: Initiating a Dialogue Within the Public Health Community ()
3207.0Improving Pregnancy Outcomes: Determinants and Measurement Tools ()
3212.0The Impacts of Racism on the Health and Well-being of the Nation ()
3213.0Mental Health Poster Session I ()
3214.0Mental Health Poster Session II ()
3215.0Mental Health Poster Session III ()
3230.0Race/ethnicity and the Year 2000 census: implications for public health data (part 2) ()
3231.0Advances in Methodology (Special Student Paper Session) ()
3232.0Vietnam Caucus: Scientific Session II ()
7:00 PM-10:00 PM Mon
3235.0Social Capital and its Effects on Health ()
3236.0Taking Aim at Racial and Income Disparities in Mammography Screening: The North Carolina Breast Cancer Screening Program's and other Community-Based Approaches ()
8:30 PM-10:00 PM Mon
3237.0Women, Alcohol, And Violence ()
3240.0Prevalence and Risk Behaviors for HIV among Youth and Adults ()
3241.0Monitoring the Tobacco Epidemic: Data Sources ()
3243.1Epidemiology Latebreaking Posters ()
3245.0Variations in Cancer Patient Surveillance and the Impact on Costs ()
3250.0Topics in intentional injury ()
3251.0Intimate partner violence ()
3252.0Child maltreatment and fatality ()
3253.0Injury posters: the Top 10 ()
3255.0Various Topics in Maternal and Child Health ()
3258.0Making Breastfeeding Decisions on the Evidence: A Method to Improve Outcomes for Those Who Need It Most ()
3261.0Medical Care Contributed Papers - 2 ()
3269.1Issues in Eye Care: Preventing Vision Impairment and Blindness in the Future ()
3270.0Teenage Sexuality in the New Millenium ()

Tuesday, November 14, 2000

8:30 AM-10:00 AM Tue
4008.0Environmental Tobacco Smoke Poster Session ()
4009.0Psychosocial and Behavioral Factors in Tobacco Poster Session ()
4018.0D.C's Women Health Initiative:Strategies for Change/ Issues of Cancer Screening, Diabetes and HIV AIDS Among African American Populations/ Religiosity in Coping & Healing ()
4025.0Disability Surveillance ()
4026.0International Movement for Children's Environmental Health ()
4027.0The Climate Change Impacts on the United States National Assessment Project: What the Report Means to Our Health ()
4029.0Career Development in Epidemiology: Roundtable Discussions ()
4030.0Women's Health ()
4036.0The New California Health Interview Survey: Measuring Health Needs and Disparities in a Diverse State ()
4039.0Behavioral Epidemiology of HIV ()
4041.0Motor-vehicle related methods ()
4047.0Health Issues Affecting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth ()
4048.0Health Status, Service Needs, and Social Support: Issues of Concern for Adolescents ()
4050.0International Maternal and Child Health and Breastfeeding Combined Poster Session ()
4051.0Psychosocial and cultural factors in medical care and decision-making ()
4052.0Health Services Research Methodology Session: Assessing Quality of Care Under Medicare: Understanding the Effects of Socioeconomic Status on Performance Measurement ()
4055.0Administrative Healthcare Data for Research – the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) ()
4058.0Intimate Partner Violence and Mental Health ()
4059.0Mental health Issues in Jails and Prisons ()
4060.0Women's Experience, Work and Health ()
4062.0Poster Session I ()
4063.0Poster Session II ()
4064.0Poster Session III ()
4065.0Poster Session IV ()
4067.0Diabetic care ()
4072.0Environmental health risk communication and research ()
4081.0HIV in Special Populations of Women: Adolescents, Older women and "No Risk" Group ()
4082.0Teaching social justice in public health: progressive pedagogy in action ()
4083.0Fundamental Measurement of Quality of Care and Quality of Life ()
4084.0Death Rates: Statistical Implications of Implementing ICD-10 and the New Standard for Age Adjustment ()
4085.0Social Causes of Social Diseases ()
12:30 PM-2:00 PM Tue
4096.0Factors Influencing Services Utilization by Pregnant and Parenting Adolescents ()
4097.0Children at Risk Poster Session ()
4098.0Monitoring HIV and Injection Drug Users Issues II ()
4099.0Monitoring HIV, HPC, and Injection Drug Users Issues I ()
4100.0Better Methods for Research on Treatment and Prevention ()
4101.0Alcohol and Youth: Drinking-Related Behaviors and Risks ()
4101.4Factors Affecting Drug Use Poster Session ()
4105.0Addressing Health Concerns Affecting African American Men ()
4110.2Community Involvement in Health Promotion/Disease Prevention ()
4112.0Children & Adolescents: Disability and Health Issues ()
4113.0Biotechnology and Public Health ()
4114.0Cost of Prevention: Finding & Using Cost Data in Policy Development ()
4116.0Socioeconomic Status and Race: Investigating Health Disparities ()
4117.0Studies in Occupational Epidemiology ()
4118.0Addressing Hepatitis C at the Local Level ()
4119.0Making a Difference in Child and Adolescent Nutrition - Environmental Influences ()
4121.0Research on End-of-Life Care ()
4122.0Measuring Health and Well-Being ()
4124.0Culture, Race and Health Care for the Aged ()
4126.0Bioterrorism Preparedness: Local/State Health Department Information Systems Infrastructure Development ()
4135.0Global Health Equity- Developing Country Findings ()
4139.0The Health of the Hispanic Woman. How are we doing? ()
4156.0Special Panel On Inequalities in Health: Research Issues and Policy Implications ()
4158.0Vision Care and Vision Screening for Children ()
2:30 PM-4:00 PM Tue
4162.0Improving the Skills of the Public Health Workforce: The Health Agency Training Program in Biostatistics and Epidemiology ()
4165.0Early Intervention: Prenatal and Perinatal Care ()
4166.0Research on Drinking Patterns in Special Populations ()
4168.0Methods of Measuring Health Disparities ()
4175.0Cancer Control I: Identifying the Needs for Asian Pacific Islanders ()
4185.0Endocrine disruptors: New science and new insights ()
4187.0Particulate Air Pollution: Re-Emerging Concerns and Public Health Protection ()
4188.0Topics in Emerging Infections ()
4189.0Violence in the Family ()
4205.0Nutrition and Food Safety among Latinos: Issues for the New Millenium ()
4206.0Risk Assessment and Risk Reduction among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Populations ()
4208.0Innovative Epidemiologic Methods in MCH ()
4215.0Challenges to implementing public health models of mental health intervention research: lessons from the field ()
4216.0The US DOE Workforce: Studies of Former and Current Workers, Part I, DOE-Funded Screening Program for Former Workers ()
4225.0Nutrition and physical activity ()
4230.1Selected Public Health Social Work Issues Involving Infants, Toddlers, and Child Care Evaluation ()
4233.0Femicide in America ()
4:30 PM-6:00 PM Tue
4245.0Cancer Control II: Intervention Strategies for Asian Pacific Islanders ()
4255.0Disability & Managed Care: Disparities, Outcomes, and Quality of Care ()
4257.0New Science on Children's Environmental Health ()
4258.0Environmental Health and Health Disparities ()
4258.1Asthma Poster Session ()
4259.0Infectious Disease Epidemiology: Poster Session I ()
4262.1Culture, Race and Health Services for the Elderly ()
4264.0Health Care Financing Administration 1998/1999 African Americans And Hispanic Health Services Research Grant Program: African American And Hispanic Health Services Issues ()
4285.0The US DOE Workforce: Studies of Former and Current Workers, Part II, NIOSH-Funded Research of US DOE Current Employees ()
4287.0Oral Cancer,Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation ()
4303.0Various Topics in Public Health Social Work ()
8:30 PM-10:00 PM Tue
4309.0Mortality, Health Status, and Access to Care for Homeless Persons ()
4312.01999 VA National Health Survey of Veterans: Assessment of Quality and Performance ()
4314.0Understanding African American Female Adolescents' HIV-Associated Risk and Protective Behaviors: Implications for Prevention ()
4320.0Exposure Assessment for Occupational Hazards ()

Wednesday, November 15, 2000

8:30 AM-10:00 AM Wed
5003.0Alcohol Issues in Culturally Diverse Populations ()
5009.0Issues in Health Status Surveillance for Asian Pacific Islanders ()
5010.0Training of the Emerging Majority for the Elimination of Health Disparities: Curricular Issues in the Training of Public Health Professionals ()
5011.0Homelessness: Special Issues in a Special Populatioin ()
5013.0Epidemiological information on refugee and immigrants' health status: Health Disparities ()
5014.0Assessing Health Service Need, Impact, and Outcomes for Underserved Populations ()
5017.0Disability Classification, Definitions, and Measurement ()
5018.0Health Disparities: Susceptibility to Environmental Exposures ()
5020.2Children's Environmental Health ()
5020.3Educating a Diverse Audience About Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention ()
5021.0Infectious Disease Epidemiology: Poster Session II ()
5022.0MCH, Injury, and Cancer Epidemology Poster Session ()
5023.0Investigating Foodborne Outbreaks ()
5024.0Screening for Asthma: Problems and Practicalities ()
5025.0Studies in Physical Activity and Nutrition ()
5025.1The Changing Epidemiology of Autism Spectrum Disorders ()
5026.0Eliminating Health Disparities Through WIC ()
5027.0Assessing Nutrition Across the Country - Populations to Programs ()
5032.0Avoiding Pitfalls and Errors in Public Health Data: Proven Methodologies ()
5038.0HIV Poster Session IV: Behavioral Epidemiology ()
5041.0Building a National Firearm Fatality Reporting System ()
5042.0Pedestrian and recreational injury ()
5052.0Graduate Education in MCH--MCH Epidemiology, Training for Research versus Practice: Is There a Difference? ()
5053.0Women's Health Poster Session ()
5054.0Hot Topics: Mental Health and Identification and Financing for CSHCN ()
5056.0Health Services Research Contributed Papers ()
5060.0Running on Ritalin: Data, Theory, and Practice ()
5061.0"Does managed care compromise quality for adults with schizophrenia?" ()
5077.0Violence: Prevention, Treatment, & Reducing Recidivism ()
5079.0The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS): Methodologic Issues ()
5080.0Innovations in modeling ()
5082.0Midlife Issues Across Class and Race ()
12:30 PM-2:00 PM Wed
5090.0Findings from the 1996 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Study of Smoking and Tobacco Use Among Young People ()
5091.0Youth and Alcohol: Risks and Protective Factors ()
5096.0Domestic violence against Asian/Pacific Islander women ()
5097.0Reproductive Health/Barriers To Immunization /Infant Mortality/XCultural Counselling & Nutrition/ Clinical Trial Issues ()
5098.0IDU and Sexual Risk Among Homeless Youth and Adults ()
5099.0Effect of Social and Civil Unrest, War, Torture, and Displacement on Refugees and Displaced Persons' Physical and Mental Health ()
5100.0Assessment Tools and the Community ()
5108.0Healthy Schools: Emerging Issues for Child Health ()
5110.0Instituting Precaution in Environmental Health Policy: the Roles of Science, Public Policy, and Public Health Partnerships ()
5111.0Epidemiology Latebreaker Oral Presentations ()
5112.0Epidemiology Latebreaker Poster Session ()
5113.0Health Disparities in Diabetes: Defining the Problem ()
5114.0Pregnancy and Breastfeeding: Latching on to the Future ()
5117.0Ethics in Public Health Curriculum ()
5119.0Quality of Care in Nursing Homes ()
5120.0Accessing and Using Medicare Data to Understand Racial Disparities in the Use of Health Services ()
5121.0Long Term Care and Health Services for the Elderly in Rural Settings ()
5124.0Evaluation Systems for Public Health Programs: Three Models ()
5129.0Injury data: current issues ()
5133.0Workers, work, and health disparities ()
5135.0MCH Epidemiology and Genetics Poster Session ()
5137.0Innovations in Maternity Care and Violence Prevention in the Family and Community Combined Poster Session ()
5138.1Medical Care Poster Session 1 ()
5138.2Medical Care Poster Session 2 ()
5138.3Medical Care Poster Session 3 ()
5139.0Mental Health Poster Session IV ()
5140.0Mental Ilness in Children: Epidemiology and Risk Factors ()
5145.0Oral Health Surveillance: Program Planning and Evaluation ()
5149.0A Potpourri of Reproductive Health ()
5158.0Scientific Session X: School Violence Prevention: Programs and Strategies ()
5162.0Trend data from the National Health Interview Survey: Health changes or survey changes? ()
5163.0Statistics in Public Health(Poster Session) ()
2:30 PM-4:00 PM Wed
5167.0Commitment to Wellness: Recovering from Addictive Diseases and Mental Disorders ()
5169.0College and Alcohol ()
5180.0Health Care Without Harm: Putting the precautionary principle into practice ()
5182.0Understanding Environmental Hazards, Exposures, and Health Outcomes: An Examination of Tracking Activities, Implementation and Data Needs ()
5183.0Health Disparities in Diabetes: Preventive Care Practices ()
5184.0Tropical Disease Epidemiology in the Americas in the 21st Century ()
5185.0Evaluation and Dissemination of the CDC's Health-Related Quality of Life Modules ()
5186.0Empowering Black Women in Nutrition, Physical Activity and Weight Management: Issues and Programs ()
5187.0Mental Health and Older Adults ()
5194.0Risk factors for injury and its outcomes ()
5195.0Injury in children and adolescents ()
5203.0Modern history of racial measurement and categorization: implications of the past for the future - Part 1 ()
5204.0Mental Illness in Children: Services and Utilization ()
5206.0Occupational Health Suveillance ()
5213.0Program evaluation ()
5216.0Scientific Session XII: Prevention of Adolescent Use of Tobacco ()
5219.0Coordinating National, State, and Local Health Surveys to Meet Local Public Health Needs ()
5220.0Federal and state health statistics ()
4:30 PM-6:00 PM Wed
5227.1Epidemiological and Other Public Health Tools ()
5229.0Use of Economic, Ethnic and Other Sociological Measures in Public Health Research/Models for program evaluation and behavioral research ()
5231.0Using Data to Develop Policy and Design Programs ()
5232.0Moving Knowledge into Community Action ()
5233.0Translating Assessment into Community Action ()
5239.0Asthma Prevention at the Centers for Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research ()
5240.0Mercury and Brain Development ()
5241.0GIS In Public Health - Not Just Another Mapping Tool ()
5242.0Environmental Health Poster Session ()
5243.0Children's Environmental Health Poster Session ()
5244.0NHANES in the new millenium ()
5245.0Epidemiology Poster Session ()
5247.0The Impact of Culture on Elderly Minorities and the Existing Disparities within Our Health Care System ()
5257.0Impact of AIDS on African Populations, Health Systems and Families ()
5260.0Home Visiting and Parent/Family Support Poster Session ()
5261.0Perinatal Interventions: What's New? What's Different? What Works? ()
5262.0SIDS & Infant Mortality Poster Session ()
5264.0Improving Outcomes for Vulnerable Mothers and Infants Through Breastfeeding ()
5266.0Perinatal Care: Health Disparities and Interventions Among Minority and Underserved Populations ()
5268.0Modern history of racial measurement and categorization: Implications of the past for the future - Part 2 ()
5270.0Major Depression in Geriatric Primary Care Settings ()
5272.0The Effects of Trauma on Mental Health ()
5272.1Mental Health Poster Session V ()
5274.0Occupational Fatalities ()
5275.0Oral Health Concerns for Patients with HIV Disease ()
5291.0Maternal-Child Health Research ()
5294.0Research, Evaluation and Data Collection: Issues & Methods ()
5295.0Sensory Impairments: Issues of Measurement and Analysis in Population-based Studies ()
5296.0Rape, Sexual Violence, and Survivorship ()
8:30 PM-10:00 PM Wed
5302.0Substance Abuse Among the Asian American and Pacific Islanders ()
5309.0Targeted Screening to Identify Lead Poisoned Children ()
5310.0Sizing Up America: What's Happening with Obesity and Size Acceptance ()
5313.0Measurement Technologies to Improve Health Outcomes ()
5316.0Disability Outcomes in the Workplace: Improving Public Health ()
5320.0Youth at Risk ()

Thursday, November 16, 2000

8:30 AM-10:00 AM Thu
6006.0Using Medicaid Claims Data for Health Policy and Health Services Research ()
6010.0Immunization Registries: Reaching the Healthy People 2010 Goal ()
6011.0Issues in Women's Health and Nutrition ()
6012.0Are We Raising Healthy Children: Nutrition and Activity Issues ()
6014.0Use of monetary incentives with disenfranchized populations: Are they practical? Are they ethical? ()
6020.0Injury surveillance: methods and approaches ()
6022.0Breast Cancer Control: Strategies at the Beginning of the 21st Century ()
6028.0Violence prevention strategies ()
6029.0Cancer prevention and screening ()

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