3208.0: Monday, October 22, 2001: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM

Oral Session

Communicating with and engaging vulnerable populations of women

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement.
Learning Objectives: At the end of the session, participants will be able to: 1) Define client engagement, approaches for engaging clients in health services, and approaches to evaluating the effectiveness of client engagement; 2) Describe changes in communicating AIDS knowledge to women in developing countries; 3) Identify effective breastfeeding promotion programs among low-income women and next steps in breastfeeding promotion; and 4) Identify which socioeconomic indicator is most strongly associated with patient-provider communication among African American women and whether the relationship between socioeconomic status and patient-provider communication is similar across age among African American women.
Moderator(s):Amal J. Khoury, PhD, MPH
Organizer(s):Amal J. Khoury, PhD, MPH
4:30 PMChanges in the delivery of AIDS knowledge among Zambian women, 1992 to 1996
Brian C. Castrucci, BA
4:50 PMEvaluation of the Loving Support Campaign in Mississippi
Amal J Khoury, PhD, MPH, Amal Mitra, MD, DrPH, Agnes Hinton, DrPH, RD, Syed W Moazzem, MBBS
5:10 PMPatient-provider communication among African American women: Are there differences across socioeconomic status and age?
Bettina M. Beech, DrPH, MPH, Isabel C. Scarinci, PhD, MPH, Wendy Naumann, PhD, Kristen W. Kovach, BA, Letha Pugh, BSN, Sabine Balzora, MD
5:30 PMEngaging Women and Children in Health Services
Andy Hsi, MD, Irene Jillson, PhD
Sponsor:Medical Care
Cosponsors:HIV/AIDS; Latino Caucus; Public Health Nursing; Social Work; Socialist Caucus; Women's Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 129th Annual Meeting of APHA