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4207.0: Tuesday, November 9, 2004: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| Improving the health of children with disabilities requires understanding and developing responsive strategies to overcome environmental barriers to their healthy development. One strategy for achieving such improvements encompasses creating opportunities at the community-based level to engage children with disabilities in physical activities and sports. | |||
| Learning Objectives: Discuss physical fitness and sports mentoring as a barrier elimination strategy for healthy development among children with disabilities, and describe the role physical activity and sports can have on weight management and chronic disease prevention among children with disabilities. | |||
| Brenda A. Leath, MHSA | |||
Medicare and workers’ compensation – How the Medicare set-aside process works to ensure medical care for injured workers ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} Carolyn Cahn, RN, PHN, COHN, MHA | |||
| Uncovered workers: Seeking solutions Carol Murry, DrPH, D. William Wood, PhD | |||
| Measuring the environment across six national surveys: Implications of the international classificatio of functioning, disability and health Kristine A. Mulhorn, PhD, MHSA | |||
| Overcoming barriers to physical activity for children with disabilities through mentoring Brenda A. Leath, MHSA | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Health Administration | ||
| Endorsed by: | Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Injury Control and Emergency Health Services; Maternal and Child Health; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Socialist Caucus | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||