Back to Annual Meeting Page		American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA

Abstract #112527

Lenee N. Simon, MPH¹, Robinson Fulwood, PhD, MSPH¹, and Gregory J. Morosco, PhD, MPH². (1) Office of Prevention, Education, and Control, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, 31 Center Drive, MSC 2480, Room 4A-10, Bethesda, MD 20892, (301) 496-1051, simonl@nhlbi.nih.gov, (2) Office of Prevention, Education, and Control, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, 31 Center Drive, MSC 2480, Building 31, Room 4A-03, Bethesda, MD 20892-2480

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health hosted the Education Strategy Development Workshop: Public Health in Public Housing—Improving Health, Changing Lives on May 5–6, 2004, in Bethesda, MD. The purpose of the Workshop was to hear from both public health and public housing professionals regarding public health strategies they have found to be effective in public housing communities. The Workshop focused on the health conditions asthma and cardiovascular disease (CVD) and opportunities to improve the health of residents in public housing settings. Workshop panelists provided a picture of the public housing setting and shared their perspectives about best practices, lessons learned, and opportunities for reducing the prevalence of CVD and asthma in public housing. Participants used the information shared during the panel presentations and their collective experiences and knowledge to create scenarios and frameworks that could be used to plan future asthma control and cardiovascular health programs in public housing settings. This session will outline the lessons learned by the workshop's 65 public health and public housing practitioner member group. It will also outline the results of the workshop--four innovative programming frameworks that integrate clinical care and public health education and health promotion to address CVD and asthma in public housing settings.

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