The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA

Session: Outreach Strategies in Cancer Prevention
3361.0: Monday, November 11, 2002: 8:30 PM-10:00 PM
Oral
Outreach Strategies in Cancer Prevention
Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to: Identify mechanisms to recruit women in a rural area into breast cancer education programs. Describe the use of direct mail as a strategy to increase mammography use among low-income, medically underserved women. Articulate methods used to reduce barriers that contribute to a women delaying follow up after receiving an abnormal screening result Develop a plan that identifies a navigator for the client and a medical contact for the referring provider once the client is referred for definitive diagnosis and possible treatment
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Moderator(s):Erica S. Breslau, MPH, PhD
8:30 PMBreast cancer outreach: Community-based education with easy access to screening for women in rural areas
Joanne M. Fugere Fedele, RN, MS
8:45 PMBreast Cancer: Opportunities for Community Education in Rural Mississippi: Part 1: Introduction
Twyla Ratliff, BSMT(ASCP), Farrah L. Robinson, BS, J. Todd Liddell, BS, Judith E. Taylor, EdD, Suzanne Liddell, MS
9:00 PMImpact of a breast-self examination intervention program: A longitudinal study
Kathleen J. Young, PhD, Teresa Langston
9:15 PMDirect mail: An effective population-based strategy for increasing mammography use among women age 40-64
Jonathan S. Slater, PhD, Chung Nim Ha, MPH, George A. Henly, PhD, Michael E. Malone, MPH, Annette Bar-Cohen, MPH, Sarah R. Diaz, MS
9:30 PMWithdrawn -- GIRASOL: Preventing Cervical Cancer among Latinas at High Risk
Maria Eugenia Fernandez-Esquer, PhD
9:45 PMNavigation, advocacy, education and support established in a county public health department for women at risk for or diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer
Diane Claire Carr, RN, BSN, NP, Barbara J Cicerelli, BA, Charla W. Ekstrand, MS, MPA, Alanna Ortega, CHOW, Maria Sonia Tuthill, MA, Esther Thach, Mary Yu, Juanita Contreras, Amy Lan Yim, BSW
Organized by:Women's Caucus
Endorsed by:Alternative and Complementary Health Practices; Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Gerontological Health; Population, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health; Public Health Nursing
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA