3180.0: Monday, November 17, 2003: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| The Spectrum of Prevention is a comprehensive framework for health departments, community agencies, and coalitions to conceptualize, implement, and coordinate a wide variety of public health programs. This session will provide participants with an overview of the Spectrum of Prevention, report the results of a qualitative study of applications of this framework and illuminate how the Spectrum has been used at the national, state, and local levels to achieve public health outcomes. | |||
| Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, participants will be able to: 1) Understand the importance of comprehensive approaches and why attention to both individual and environmental factors is critical to public health issues. 2) Describe the elements of the Spectrum of Prevention and how it can be used to plan and coordinate approaches to complex public health issues. 3) Describe specific examples of how the Spectrum of Prevention has been applied in governmental and community settings to address a wide range of issues. | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Tracey Rattray, MPH, MSW | |||
| Cheri A. Pies, MSW, DrPH | |||
| Cultivating peace in Salinas: The Spectrum of Prevention as a framework for violence prevention Anna Caballero, Ken Feske | |||
| Spectrum of prevention in action: A county perspective Tracey Rattray, MPH, MSW | |||
| Spectrum of Prevention in action: A state perspective Valodi Foster, MPH | |||
| Spectrum of Prevention: A tool for broad based change Larry Cohen, MSW | |||
| Studying the Spectrum of Prevention: Practical applications from across the nation Manal J. Aboelata, MPH, Leslie Mikkelsen, MPH, RD | |||
| Organized by: | Community Health Planning and Policy Development | ||
| Endorsed by: | Public Health Education and Health Promotion | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy | ||