The Chiropractic Health Care Section of the American Public Health Association (APHA-CHC) invites abstracts for presentation at the 2002 Annual Meeting to be held in Philadelphia, PA, November 9-13, 2002. Topics related to this year's theme, "Putting the Public back into Public Health", and in all areas related to chiropractic health care will receive high priority. Other topics of interest include:
Enhancing the provision of preventive services in primary contact and primary care practice
Public health practices by practicing clinicians
Integrative health care: Best practices for cross-disciplinary and coordinated care
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to practice
Chiropractic in the changing health care environment
Complementary and Alternative Care for selected indications and populations
Aging and geriatric health
Women’s health
Children’s health
Minority health
Underserved populations
Public health implications of musculoskeletal conditions
Back pain
Neck pain
Headache
Injury
Occupational health
Ergonomics
Teaching public health to health professions students and practicing clinicians
This Call for Abstracts for the APHA-CHC scientific sessions requests papers that present:
Original empirical work (e.g. scientific studies, program evaluations, or organizational case studies), or noteworthy advances in methodology or analysis
Innovative integrative scholarship and scientific work
Programmatic reports of significant research infrastructure developments
Programmatic reports of health professions curriculum developments or educational research
Structured substantive policy analyses (e.g. systems-wide assessments or policy case-studies)
Informative reports on program or project management and development
Other similarly noteworthy, innovative, or informative reports and studies
The abstract submission deadline is February 4, 2002.
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