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American Public Health Association
133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
 APHA 2005
 
Session: Designing Effective Health Education
4056.0: Tuesday, December 13, 2005: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Oral
Designing Effective Health Education
Serious chronic diseases present many important challenges to health education, and interventions addressing these diseases require careful planning. The speakers in this session will describe programs addressing lupus and studies of patient behaviors related to cancer screening and information-seeking. Presentations will discuss specific programs and their implications for health education and health promotion.
Learning Objectives: At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
  1. Identify factors of successful public-private partnership for health promotion;
  2. Describe information-seeking and screening behaviors related to cancer; and
  3. Discuss aspects of effective programming for lupus intervention.
Moderator(s):Liane Summerfield
8:30 AMDisparities in information-seeking among persons with a history of cancer: Evidence from a national survey  [ Recorded presentation ]
Shoba Ramanadhan, MPH, K. Viswanath, PhD
8:48 AMA qualitative analysis of patient prostate cancer screening discussions  [ Recorded presentation ]
Elizabeth A. Ellis Ohr, Judy A. Shea, PhD, Dominick Frosch, PhD, Carmen E. Guerra, MD, John H. Holmes, PhD
9:06 AMExploring barriers to uptake of breast cancer screening in South East London: A study of women’s views  [ Recorded presentation ]
Ann R. Taket, Sarah Barter-Godfrey, BSc, MSc
9:24 AMModel program for a lupus intervention  [ Recorded presentation ]
Susan V.L. Russell, MSA
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Public Health Education and Health Promotion
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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