The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA

Session: The Electronic Health Educator: The Internet as the Interventionist
4072.0: Tuesday, November 12, 2002: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Oral
The Electronic Health Educator: The Internet as the Interventionist
This session provides interventions that use the Internet as the tool that intervenes on individuals for the purpose of behavior change. The interventions discussed will focus on several behaviors (gambling, drug use, cancer information deliver systems).
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):Susan Radius
8:30 AMWithdrawn -- 'Breathe' game: The use of an interactive internet-based game to educate young injecting drug users about responding to an overdose
Peter J Davidson, BA, Jon Rogers, Andrew R Moss, PHD, Judy Hahn, PHD
8:50 AMAdolescent gambling problems: Public health intervention using the internet
David A. Korn, Harvey Skinner, PhD, Martha Murray, Charlotte Lombardo
9:10 AMDevelopment and evaluation of an interactive web application for men with prostate cancer
H. Grady Watts, MA, Gerardine Wurzburg, MA, Catherine Harbour, MPH, Dick R Lui, MPH, Tom de Boor, Gretchen Hermes, MA, PhD (ABD), Kimberly L Jeffries, PhD, Suzanne M. Randolph, PhD
9:30 AMHow does Internet use affect the user? A review of a study with newly diagnosed cancer patients who contact the Cancer Information Service
Sarah Bauerle Bass, PhD, MPH, Sheryl B. Ruzek, PhD, MPH, Linda Fleisher, MPH, Nancy McKeown-Conn
Organized by:Public Health Education and Health Promotion
Endorsed by:Public Health Nursing; School Health Education and Services
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA