4168.0: Tuesday, November 14, 2000: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM

Methods of Measuring Health Disparities

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Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives
Presider(s):Lillian Tom-Orme, PhD
2:30 PMIntroductory Remarks
2:35 PMA Campus/Community Partnership for Constructing a Baseline Needs Assessment for Urban Indians in Southern California
Laura A. Williams, MD, MPH, Juliet M. McMullin, PhD, Robert Henry Stevens, PhD, Yahola Sims, BA, F. Allan Hubbell, MD, MSPH, Peggy Barnett, MA
2:50 PMCorrecting for racial misclassification in health registries: The Northwest Tribal Registry Project
James Bettles, BA, Thomas Becker, MD, PhD, Dee Robertson, MD, MPH
3:05 PMIndian Community Health Profile: An Instrument for Assessing the Overall Health Status of American Indian and Alaska Native Communities
Trula A. Breuninger, MPH, Tam Lutz, MPH, MHA, Dee Robertson, MD, MPH
3:20 PMAccessing American Indian/Alaska Native health data
Rick Haverkate, MPH
3:35 PMFirst Nation and Inuit Regional Health Survey: Combating health disparities by developing self-governance over health information in Canada
Brenda D. Elias, Phd-Student, Jeff Reading, Phd, Gail MacDonald, MSW, John O'Neil, Phd, Audrey Leader, FNIRHS National Steering Committee
3:50 PMDiscussion
Sponsor:American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Caucus
Cosponsors:Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Environment; Epidemiology; Health Administration; Latino Caucus; Social Work

The 128th Annual Meeting of APHA