4191.0: Tuesday, October 23, 2001: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM

Oral Session

Making a Difference? Prove It!

Making a Difference? Prove It! is a monograph to help community-based organizations move from fuzzy community-based intereventions to rigorously designed interventions that are both reproducible in their methods and mesurable in their results.
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement.
Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives
Organizer(s):George Rust, MD, MPH
2:30 PMConvincing Professionals vs. Convincing a Community (Trust, Respect, and Then Data)
Virgil Murray
2:50 PMConvincing vs. Serving: Making Measurement Serve the Mission in Community-Based Organizations
Elvan Catherine Daniels, MD
3:10 PMFeeling vs Knowing: Have We Really Made a Difference?
George Rust, MD, MPH
3:30 PMKnowing vs. convincing - methodologic rigor in outcome measures and study design
Marshall H. Chin, MD, MPH
Sponsor:Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Cosponsors:Public Health Nursing
CE Credits:CME, Chiropractic, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 129th Annual Meeting of APHA