Session: The Unique Role of Community Health Workers
4028.0: Tuesday, November 18, 2003: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Poster
The Unique Role of Community Health Workers
Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Board 1Bajo del Arbol and other neighborhood-driven solutions to healthcare access: Developing community-wide health policy in Miami, one neighborhood at a time
Jessica Perlmutter, MArch, N. Grisel Negron, MPH
Board 2Beauticians as lay health workers: Educating their clientele about cancer
Theresa Ann Wynn, PhD, Charmaine Williams
Board 3By popular demand: The role of Beninese community health workers in introducing a new family planning method
Erin E. Anastasi, MHS, Virgile Capo-Chichi, PhD, Adolphe Kpatchavi, PhD, Josephat Avoce, MS, Lahanatou Bio Mama, RN/CNM
Board 4Roles of community health workers in culturally tailoring breast and cervical cancer programs in Asian American and Pacific Islander communities: A qualitative comparison of a Cambodian and a Laotian community in California
Tu-Uyen Ngoc Nguyen, MPH, Maichew Chao, Marina Keo, Sithary Ly, Mao Ly, Bouavanh Tang, Mary Anne Foo, MPH, Marjorie Kagawa-Singer, RN, MN, PhD, Susan Lee, Sora Park Tanjasiri, Jacqueline Tran
Board 5Cross training Native American community health representative and graduate public health promotion students
Sally Henry, MA RN FHCE, Wendy Coppage, BS, Noel Wiggins, MSPH
Board 6Family Spirit Project: Community Health Workers Strengthening American Indian Teen-formed Families
Lola Riggs, BA, Novalene Goklish, Pauline Fields, Brandii McCabe, Elena Varipatis, MPH, MSW, Kristen Speakman, MA, Allison Barlow, MA, MPH, Golda Ginsburg, PhD, John Walkup, MD
Board 7Lets Talk About Me For A Minute! Key Findings from and on Female Community Health Volunteers in Nepal
Suruchi Sood, Phd, Pius Mishra, PhD
Board 8Creating a community of learning to educate community health workers
Elizabeth M. Whitley, PhD
Board 9Organ donation and transplantation awareness in African Americans living in rural Alabama
Willette M. Crawford, BS, Mary Ann Littleton, PhD, Connie L. Kohler, DrPH, Varena G. Stalker, MPA
Board 10Radio Sahabat Bidan: Increasing community midwives' knowledge and skills in Indonesia
Endang Iradati, BA, Sereen Thaddeus, MA, MPH, Anne M Palmer, MIA
Organized by:Community Health Workers SPIG
Endorsed by:Medical Care; Public Health Education and Health Promotion

The 131st Annual Meeting (November 15-19, 2003) of APHA