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American Public Health Association
133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
 APHA 2005
 
Session: Young Adults' Challenge to Health Education
4336.0: Tuesday, December 13, 2005: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
Oral
Young Adults' Challenge to Health Education
Health promotion and health education programs addressing adolescents and young adults face particular challenges, both in terms of effectively reaching the target audience and in terms of health risks to be addressed. Presentations in this session will discuss these challenges through the examples of projects dealing with youth gangs, adolescent sexual behavior and tobacco use. Specific methods for evaluating the success of programs and development of a research model will be discussed, along with their implications for health promotion practice.
Learning Objectives: At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
  1. Identify methods for addressing campus and individual behavior change;
  2. Discuss triangulation of quantitative and qualitative data sources for process evaluation; and
  3. Describe health promotion studies and interventions targeting adolescents and young adults.
Moderator(s):Anne St Claire
4:30 PMA public health model for studying youth gangs  [ Recorded presentation ]
Bill Sanders, PhD, Stephen E. Lankenau, PhD
4:48 PMRace differences in sexual self-concept and sexual information sources during adolescence  [ Recorded presentation ]
Kelly L'Engle, MPH, Jane Brown, PhD, Guang Guo, PhD
5:06 PMFactors related to teachers' implementation of a school based tobacco use prevention intervention in Hawaii: Project SPLASH
Angela Sy, DrPH, Karen Glanz, PhD, MPH, Karin Koga, MPH, Kevin B. Lunde, BS, Alana Steffen, PhD
5:24 PMLongitudinal effects of pro-tobacco and anti-tobacco messages on adolescent smoking susceptibility  [ Recorded presentation ]
Jie W. Weiss, Steven Cen, Darleen V. Schuster, MA, MPH, CHES, Jennifer Unger, PhD, Anderson Johnson, Michele Mouttapa, PhD, Tess Boley Cruz, PhD, MPH
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Public Health Education and Health Promotion
Endorsed by:Community Health Planning and Policy Development; School Health Education and Services
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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