3230.0: Monday, October 22, 2001: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM

Oral Session

Innovations in Health, Nutrition, and Physical Activities

Presenters will describe a variety of apporaches for stimulating improved propsects for healtier and more physically fit children and youth. Included will be approaches for influencing school-based health promotion programs and individual decision making.
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement.
Learning Objectives: Analyze school-based health promotion and nutrition programs. Improve individual decision making through critical thinking. Promote increased physical activity.
4:30 PMCoordination of Multiple School-Based Surveys to Reduce Burden on Schools
Heather Ryan, MPH, Laura Kann, PhD, Wick Warren, PhD, Marcella Law, MPH, Eric Pevzner, MPH, Leah Zinner
4:42 PMEvaluation of the Schools for Healthy Lifestyles program
Rebekah R. Rhoades, Laura A. Beebe, PhD, Wendy J. Jones, MPH, John R. Bozalis, MD
4:54 PMImplementation of the Report to the President on Promoting Physical Activity Among Youth
Howell Wechsler, EdD, MPH, Charlene R. Burgeson
5:06 PMInfluencing local policymakers to enact school-based policies that support healthy eating
Victoria Berends, BS, Kelli McCormack Brown, PhD, CHES, Peggy Agron, MA, RD, Amanda Purcell, MPH
5:18 PMTEACHING%20STDs/AIDS%20/SEXUALITY%20AND%20HUMAN%20RELATIONSHIP%20THROUGH%20MATHEMATICS:%20A%20PRACTICAL%20APPROACH%20IN%20HIV/AIDS%20INTERVENTION%20IN%20SCHOOL%20SETTINGS%20BY%20DR.%20PATRICK%20MT%20MAKELELE,%20DR.%20M%20.%20J%20ODIMBA,%20MAKELELE%20AND%20MR.%20RODGERS%20V%20MWEWA
PATRICK MT Makelele
5:30 PMIntegrating critical thinking as a strategy in the health curricula
Margaret Murray-Davis, PhD, Dawn Larsen, PhD CHES
Sponsor:School Health Education and Services
Cosponsors:Community Health Planning and Policy Development
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Pharmacy, Social Work

The 129th Annual Meeting of APHA