Session: Interventions and Barriers to Services for Homeless Populations


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

4207.0: Tuesday, December 13, 2005: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM

Oral

Interventions and Barriers to Services for Homeless Populations

Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the audience will be able to: Discuss selected interventions for the homeless populations; and Describe selected barriers to care in this population.

Moderator(s):

Nan McBride

2:30 PM

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy for homeless patients with Borderline Personality Disorder

Carol McNeill, MFTI

2:50 PM

HIV prevention and testing: Using health education strategies and OraQuick with homeless people S/A

Jocelyn Apicello, Shelly Moore, MPH, Bobby Watts, MPH, MS

3:10 PM

Do service users move to be close to their services? Testing NIMBY in a homeless drug abusing population

David E. Pollio, PhD, Carol S. North, MD, MPE, Karin M. Eyrich, PhD, Brian McKean

3:30 PM

Traumatic brain injury in the homeless: Impact on access to quality healthcare

Carol Waldmann, MD, Jill Roncarati, PA-C

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by:

Caucus on Homelessness

Endorsed by:

Injury Control and Emergency Health Services; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Public Health Nursing

CE Credits:

CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA