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American Public Health Association
133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
APHA 2005
 
Session: Eliminating the Burden of Health Disparities and the Policies That Drive Them
4108.0: Tuesday, December 13, 2005: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Oral
Eliminating the Burden of Health Disparities and the Policies That Drive Them
This session will discuss the role of collaboration, planning, and evaluation in influencing change in health systems and policy. Several examples of collaboration between public, private, medical, community, and academic entities will be discusses. The Centers for Diseases Control and Preventions' Reach 2010 will describe the utility of logic modeling and community driven changes in health policy.
Learning Objectives: 1) Describe effective strategies for collaborating with public, private, community and faith organizations to improve health outcomes; 2) Explain the utility of planned evaluation; 3) Discribe the REACH 2010 Logic Model.
Organizer(s):Justin Odulana, PhD, MPH
Moderator(s):Jamila Rashid, PhD, MPH
12:30 PMREACH 2010 Logic Model Brought to Life: Practices that change policies for programs funded to eliminate health disparities  [ Recorded presentation ]
Nkenge Jack, MPH, Michael L. Sells, MSPH, Pattie J. Tucker, RN, Dr PH, Alexandria Stewart, Levator Brown, BS, Cynthia Crocker, BA, Annie Latimer, MSA
12:45 PMPsychometric Evaluation of a Short-Form of the Coping Strategies Inventory (CSI) in the Jackson Heart Study (JHS) Cohort
Clifton C. Addison, PhD, Brenda W. Jenkins, MPH, Thomas Payne, PhD, Daniel Sarpong, PhD, Jeffrey Kibler, PhD, Madhu Singh, PhD, Gregory Wilson, MA, Patricia Dubbert, PhD, Herman A. Taylor, MD, MPH, FAAC, F
1:00 PMA hospital-based approach to eliminating health disparities among african american women and children: The District of Columbia hospital discharge planner program  [ Recorded presentation ]
Deneen Long-White, Eleanor Padgett, MSW, Marilyn Seabrooks, MPA
1:15 PMNauck: We're there - A Broad Based Pubic/Private Collaboration to Reduce Health Disparities in an African American Population  [ Recorded presentation ]
Martha Andom, MPH
1:30 PMAssessing the receptivity of African American men to e-health technology for prostate health information: Bridging the digital divide to eliminate health disparities
Joann T. Richardson, PhD, Gwendolyn G. Parker, MS, FNP-C, Michael Pyles, PhD, Unyime Nseyo, MD
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Black Caucus of Health Workers
Endorsed by:Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Public Health Nursing; Women's Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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