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Session: Improving Health: What Works?
4334.0: Tuesday, November 9, 2004: 8:30 PM-10:00 PM
Oral
Improving Health: What Works?
This session will explore health interventions from around the world to assess what program elements have been successful. Program focuses include community health, primary health care, child soldiers, IMCI and newborn survival.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, participants will be able to: 1) articulate challenges to the implementation of a controlled community-based study; 2) explain how hygiene improvements, behavior change communication and community-based IMCI can be integrated into a primary health care system; 3) understand the effectiveness of perinatal death audits in reducing perinatal deaths; 4) compare and contrast results from national data sets.
Moderator(s):Gilbert Kombe
8:30 PMIntroductory Remarks
8:35 PMFormer child soldiers in Mozambique: A life outcome study
Neil Boothby, PhD, Jennifer R Crawford, MPH
8:50 PMMaking Deaths Count: Using Perinatal Death Audits (PNDAs) to Increase Newborn Survival Overseas
Sk. Asiruddin, MBBS, MSc, La Rue K. Seims, MPH, MA
9:05 PMIntegrating hygiene improvement into primary health care in DR Congo
Albert Kalonji, MD, Ian Moise, Felix Minuku, MD, MPH, Leon Ngoma M. Kintaudi, MD, MPH
9:20 PMUtilization of selected types of health care in the United States and Canada: Findings from the Joint Canada/United States Survey of Health, the United States’ National Health Interview Survey, and the Canadian Community Health Survey
Michael E. Martinez, MPH MHSA, Debra Blackwell, PhD, Jane F. Gentleman, PhD
9:35 PMCommunity-based IMCI in Bolivia: A controlled study
Ronald Gutierrez, Pierre-Marie Metangmo, MD,, MBA,, MPH
9:50 PMConcluding Remarks
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:International Health
Endorsed by:Public Health Education and Health Promotion
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

The 132nd Annual Meeting (November 6-10, 2004) of APHA