The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA

Asian Pacific Islander Caucus of APHA

NOTE: Sessions listed in italics have been organized by another section, SPIG, or caucus but are endorsed by Asian Pacific Islander Caucus of APHA.

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Monday, November 11, 2002

8:30 AM-10:00 AM Mon
3016.0Mental health matters: Acknowledging the needs of Asian Americans (Oral)
3026.0Environmental Justice: Understanding and Preventing Inequitable Exposures - Implications of what we eat, where we live, and where our children play (Poster)
3027.0Topics in Environmental Health (Poster)
3027.1Children's Environmental Health Issues in Environmental Health Practice: Indicators, Assessment , Exposure & Community Outreach (Poster)
3071.0The Role of the Social Worker In Eliminating Health Disparities (Oral)
10:30 AM-12:00 PM Mon
3091.0Shining light on the shadows: Exposing hidden truths about violence, abuse, and rape among Asian Americans (Oral)
3092.1Populations at Risk: Refugees and Detainees (Oral)
3100.0Emerging and Recurrent Environmental Health Issues in the Mid-Atlantic Region (Oral)
3101.0Environmental and Health Consequences of the World Trade Center Attack (Oral)
3133.0Integrative session (NEW): "Latin American Social Medicine And The Quest For Social Justice & Public Health: Linking History, Data, And Pedagogy" (Oral)
12:30 PM-2:00 PM Mon
3146.0What's in a number? How the statistical trail leads to new policy frontiers (Oral)
3148.0Refugee and Immigrant Health Policy: History, Practice, and Challenges (Oral)
2:30 PM-4:00 PM Mon
3234.0Environmental and Social Justice: New Urban Health Research Focusing on Inequitable Exposures in Minority Communities (Oral)
3278.0Politics of public health data session: "Measuring & monitoring social inequalities in health in the United States" (Oral)
4:30 PM-6:00 PM Mon
3297.0Tobacco use and HIV risk behaviors among Asian Americans (Poster)
3298.0One size does not fit all: Tailor-made cancer prevention efforts for Asian and Pacific Islander communities (Poster)
3299.0Balancing the scales between issues of access and need for Asian and Pacific Islander communities (Poster)
3339.0History session: "Live from the City of Sisterly & Brotherly Love: The Founding Mothers and Fathers of Public Health & Social Justice" (Oral)

Tuesday, November 12, 2002

8:30 AM-10:00 AM Tue
4009.0Tobacco Use among Diverse Populations Poster Session (Poster)
4017.1Hepatitis B prevention in Asian and Pacific Islander communities: Myths and Facts (Oral)
4020.0Health Status and Adjustment of Immigrant and Refugee Youth (Oral)
4078.0Progressive pedagogy session: ": Distance Education - Promise or Peril?... A Critical Analysis" (Oral)
12:30 PM-2:00 PM Tue
4105.0Where there is smoke, there is disease: Targeting tobacco prevention to Asian American populations (Oral)
4119.0Healthy Homes Projects on Asthma and Housing: Implementation, Outcomes, Policy Issues and Advocacy (Oral)
4120.0Environmental Toxics: A Discussion on Environmental Links to Lupus (Oral)
4166.0Poster session (NEW!): "Social Justice & Public Health: Student Posters" (Poster)
2:30 PM-4:00 PM Tue
4177.1Cultural boundaries, not cultural barriers: Contextual strategies for breast and cervical cancer intervention among Asian American and Pacific Islander women (Oral)
4185.0Public Health Implications of Community Design and Land Use Choices (Oral)
4230.0What Difference Does Universal Health Care Make?: Experiences in the U.S. and Canada (Oral)
4:30 PM-6:00 PM Tue
4243.0Structural and individual correlates of South Asian health (Oral)
4254.0Public Sector Preparation for Dealing with Environmental Hazards (Oral)
4309.0Globalization and the Politics of Health: Latin America (Oral)

Wednesday, November 13, 2002

8:30 AM-10:00 AM Wed
5014.0Assessing Disparities in Health Status and Health Care for Immigrants and Refugees in the United States (Oral)
5022.0Emerging Issues in Environmental Toxics and Infrastructure Development (Poster)
5024.0Children's Environmental Health: Lead Prevalence, Prevention and Evaluation (Poster)
5025.0Children's Environmental Health: Childhood Asthma - Surveillance, Exposure, Innovative Community Outreach and Lessons Learned (Poster)
5025.1Infrastructure Development: Integrating Environmental Health into Health Care Provider Education and Practice (Oral)
5072.0The Politics of Health and Health Care (Oral)
12:30 PM-2:00 PM Wed
5098.0Reducing Residential Soil-Lead Hazards To Protect Children's Health (Oral)
5104.0The Importance of Social Supports to the Health and Well-being of Older Adults (Oral)
2:30 PM-4:00 PM Wed
5159.0Working Together to Protect Children from Environmental Threats (Oral)
5161.0Environmental Toxics: Ambient Air Pollution (Oral)
5161.1Children's Environmental Health Roundtable - Multidisciplinary Approaches to Community-Based Environmental Health (Roundtable)

The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA