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3316.1: Monday, November 8, 2004: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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This session will describe lessons learned from APHA's Maternal and Child Health Community Leadership Institute. The Institute, funded, by the Colgate Palmolive Company was designed to build the capacity of participating teams to advance the Healthy People 2010 maternal and child health objectives with a particular focus on eliminating racial and ethnic disparities. | |||
Learning Objectives: Participants will: 1. Identifying "best practices" and benchmarks for achieving the Healthy People MCH 2010 Objectives 2. Understanding the application of social scientific knowledge to a practice 3. Discussing the importance and applicability of the concepts - social and human capital -- to maternal and child health practice and interventions 4. Examining how the Institute helped participants enhance the well-being of women and children in their community | |||
Monica Lathan, MPH | |||
Phyllis E. Kaye, MPA | |||
Positive Outcomes of the MCH Community Leadership Institute Sandra M. Pak, MPH | |||
Social Capital and Perinatal Health Melissa Selbst, MPH, CHES | |||
Community Breastfeeding Coalition Building: Implementing an Iowa Model in New York Julia D Block, MD, MPH | |||
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
Organized by: | APHA-Science Board | ||
CE Credits: | Nursing, Nursing |