5071.0: Wednesday, October 24, 2001: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Poster Session

Health Messages: Examinations and Improvements

This session examines health messages in a varity of medium from stories in newspapers, journal articles and health education materials.Lessons from these studies are detailed and suggestions for crafting health communication materials including, models, use of media, audience segmentation and literacy considerations are presented.
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement.
Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives
Organizer(s):Julie Tu
Meg Young
Board 1Health literacy and preferences for patient education materials: A survey of among diabetics in a managed care setting
Kara L Jacobson, MPH, CHES, Lynn V Kawczynski, MPH, Diane C Green, PhD, MPH, Julie A Gazmararian, PhD, MPH
Board 2Tracking newspaper coverage of prevention research published in scientific journals
Charlene A. Caburnay, MPH, Susan N. Lukwago, MS, Matthew W. Kreuter, PhD, MPH, Douglas Luke, PhD, Hythem R. Zayed, MPH, Caren Bacon
Board 3Minority media coverage of cancer in black newspapers
Darigg C. Brown, BS, Brooke L. Wackerman, BS, BA, Matthew W. Kreuter, PhD, MPH, Douglas A. Luke, PhD, Charlene A. Caburnay, MPH
Board 4Content analysis of cancer articles in black newspapers
Brooke L. Wackerman, BS, BA, Darigg C. Brown, BS, Matthew W. Kreuter, PhD, MPH, Douglas Luke, PhD, Charlene Caburnay, MPH
Board 5Health beliefs and spirituality among African American women: Toward a more effective approach to health communication on breast cancer
Cheryl L. Holt, MA, Eddie M. Clark, PhD, Matthew W. Kreuter, PhD, MPH, Doris M. Rubio, PhD, Dawn C. Bucholtz, MA, MPH
Board 6Risk perception and youth: An expectancy-value framework
Alexander Q. Vallei, MA, MPH, Bryan L. Williams, PhD
Board 7Reaching women: social marketing tactics to encourage early diagnosis and appropriate chronic disease management
Johanna M. Hinman, MPH, CHES, Kimberly B. Sammons, Lisa M. Carlson, MPH, CHES, Michele L. Boutaugh, MPH, BSN
Board 8Using in-depth interviews to characterize audience segments
Nancy H. Mueller, MPH, Darcell P. Scharff, PhD, Matthew W. Kreuter, PhD, MPH, Kim Naleid, BS, Charlene A. Caburnay, MPH, Nancy Weaver, MPH, Heather Jacobsen, MPH, Justin Carroll, BA, Anthony Hurst, PhD, Charles Williams, MA, Mikaela Konieczka, BS, Victoria Anwuri, BA
Board 9Sons of CDCynergy: Development of Tailored Versions of the CD-Rom for Health Communication
Susan J. Lockhart, PhD, CHES, Jami L. Fraze, PhD, CHES, Michelle Roland, MA, Michelle Dixon, MA
Board 10An IDEAL approach: The information dissemination and education/academic liaison core
Frank Martin, MS
Sponsor:Public Health Education and Health Promotion
Cosponsors:School Health Education and Services
CE Credits:CME, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 129th Annual Meeting of APHA