The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA

Session: Innovative Epidemiologic Methods for Community-based Investigations
3030.0: Monday, November 11, 2002: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Oral
Innovative Epidemiologic Methods for Community-based Investigations
Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Presider(s):Angela D. Booth-Jones, PhD, MS
Louise-Anne McNutt, PhD
8:30 AMApplication of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to address community concerns about elevated breast cancer rates
Laurel A. Spielberg, MPH, DrPH, Suet Tieng Lim, PhD
8:45 AMApplying a conventional statistic for an inventive approach to comparisons in community-based investigations
Melinda S. Forthofer, PhD, Scott Alan Johnson, JD, MBA, MSHS, Gary Walby, MS, MSPH
9:00 AMCompare with Caution: Assessing Quality Using National Data
Catherine D. Cooksley, DrPH, Linda S. Elting, DrPH
9:15 AMEvaluation of a practice-based research network
Jolene Chou, MPH, Steven M. Lascher, DVM, MPH, Christel Mottur-Pilson, PhD
9:30 AMFunctional transitions and Active Life Expectancy associated with Alzheimer's disease: A prospective epidemiological study
Hiroko H. Dodge, PhD, Changyu Shen, BS, Rajesh S Pandav, MB, BS, MPH, Mary Ganguli, MD, MPH
9:45 AMImpact of World Health Organization’s (WHO) classification of Body Mass Index (BMI) on Systolic Blood Pressure (SBP) and Lipids: An analysis of a multi-state screening project
Ashish V Joshi, MS, David Day, PhD, Teresa J Lubowski, Pharm D, Mayur Amonkar, PhD, Ambarish Ambegaonkar, PhD
Organized by:Epidemiology
Endorsed by:Environment; Public Health Nursing; Socialist Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA