Session: Social Capital and Its Relationship to an Individual's Health Status
4118.0: Tuesday, November 18, 2003: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Poster
Social Capital and Its Relationship to an Individual's Health Status
Posters in this session will compare characteristics of gastroenteritis cases at public emergency rooms and clinics; address social determinants of lifestyle facotrs related to cardiovascular health, violence, suicide and seeking screening procedures. An evaluatuation will be presented on how rap music can impact behavior.
Learning Objectives: Posters in this session will: 1)compare characteristics of gastroenteritis cases at public emergency rooms and clinics; 2)address social determinants of lifestyle facotrs related to cardiovascular and other risks; and 3)evaluate how rap music can impact behavior.
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Board 1Characteristics of cases presenting at public emergency and outpatient departments for infectious gastroenteritis
Sharon Perry, PhD, Grace Hui, BA, Maria de Luz Sanchez, BA, Marisa Chiang, BA, Julie Parsonnet, MD
Board 2Community planning and policy interventions to address social determinants of cardiovascular risk: The role of community outreach and education
Sheryl Weir, MPH, Barbara A. Israel, DrPH, Amy Schulz, PhD, Joan Shields, RN, Srimathi Kannan, PhD
Board 3Developing a teen pregnancy prevention targeted to African American females using the preceed/procede theory of health education and cultivation theory of media studies
Kendra A J Williams, MA
Board 4Homicide rate is a poor community health status indicator for violence
James A. Litch, MD, DTMH, Juliet VanEenwyk, PhD, Steven C. Macdonald, PhD
Board 5Using social capital as an organizing framework for program planning and evaluation to reduce health disparities in communities
Michele A. Kelley, ScD, MSW, Rise Jones, PhD, MS, Noel Chavez, PhD, RD, Marilyn Willis, RN MS, Swapna. V Sawardekar, MBBS
Board 6Housing, neighborhood, and health status in an urban African-American population
Crystal L. Jenkins, MPH, Jessica Muilenburg, MPH, Mark Dignan, PhD, MPH, David Coombs, PhD
Board 7National breast cancer research advisory committee: Marin County, California
Kathy Koblick, MPH
Board 8Public health workforce assessments: Results and next steps for communities in Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota
Tanya Uden-Holman, PhD, Dawn Gentsch, MPH, CHES, Christopher Atchison, MPA
Board 9Social capital and health behaviors: Does a relationship exist?
Francine Axler, MPH, Lynne Kotranski, PhD, Ilisa Stalberg, MSS, MLSP, Robin Wilcox, MPA
Board 10Using the Community Readiness Model to develop strategies for prevention of substance abuse in rural communities
Barbara A. Plested, PhD, Ruth W. Edwards, MBA, PhD, Pamela Jumper-Thurman, PhD, Kathleen J. Kelly, PhD
Organized by:Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Endorsed by:Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Socialist Caucus

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