5313.0: Wednesday, November 15, 2000: 8:30 PM-10:00 PM

Measurement Technologies to Improve Health Outcomes

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement.
Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives
Moderator(s):Melvyn Thorne, MD,, MPH
8:30 PMLinking health facility and population level data in Kenya using GIS
Siān L. Curtis, PhD, Ruth Bessinger, PhD, Livia S. Montana, MA
8:45 PMBeyond Mapping: Geography's Role in Eliminating Health Disparities
Karin E Johnson, MSc
9:00 PMPotential impact of rapid diagnostic tests on eliminating disparities in health outcomes in underserved populations
Carol J. Palmer, PhD, Bernard Loeffke, PhD, Christopher Mitchell, MS, Raul R. Cuadrado, DrPH
9:15 PMMeasuring health program effectiveness using decision analyses
Sharon M. McDonnell, MD, MPH, Abdiaziz Yassin, PhD, Wayne Brown, MS, Helen N Perry, MA, Mark White, MD, Stephan B. Thacker, MD
Sponsor:International Health
Cosponsors:Epidemiology; Health Administration

The 128th Annual Meeting of APHA