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3325.0: Monday, November 8, 2004: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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This session will present ways of reaching and serving homeless children, and the issues affecting pediatric obesity. Community-based programs will be presented that can address the deviant behaviors of children from high risk families and the family's affect on child development and school readiness. | |||
Learning Objectives: Following this session, participants will: 1)Better understand the urgency of medical conditions affecting homeless children; 2)Understand the need of ensuring access to specialist care for medically underserved children;3)Learn strategies for improving sustainability of short-term weight loss among obese pediatric patients; and 4)Identify the impact of various sociodemographic characteristics on family resilience. | |||
Elizabeth Cohen | |||
Community Reaps Benefits of Ten-year Community Assessment Data Susan Brutschy, BA | |||
Sociodemographic determinants of family resilience in a multi-site evaluation Resa Matthew, MS, Eddie McCormick, Min Qi Wang, PhD | |||
From Neurons to King County Neighborhoods: From policy agenda to action for early childhood development and school readiness Kathryn J. Horsley, DrPH, Sandy Ciske, MN, MPH | |||
Urgent need for specialist care among homeless pediatric patients Roy Grant, Peter Sherman, MD, Irwin Redlener | |||
How do they measure up? Evaluation of outpatient pediatric weight-loss programs in greater Los Angeles Andrette T. Ward, MD, MPH, Roshanak Monzavi, MD, Christiane Wert, MPH, RD, Lydia Hazan, MD, Naomi D Neufeld, MD, Francine R Kaufman, MD | |||
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
Organized by: | Community Health Planning and Policy Development | ||
Endorsed by: | Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Socialist Caucus | ||
CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing |