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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA |
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4350.0: Tuesday, December 13, 2005: 8:30 PM-10:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| Obesity is showing itself to be a global burden, contributing to the growing morbidity rates of countries in the developed and developing world alike (World Health Organization, Global Strategy of Diet and Physical Activity: http://www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity/en/). It is becoming increasingly important for health systems to address obesity as the related diseases that accompany it – diabetes, heart disease, cancer – are becoming an added strain on many already burdened systems. This session will focus on obesity and its related diseases. Two presenters will address controlling the prevalence of obesity in specific populations, while two presenters will focus directly on diabetes as a condition resulting from obesity, and how to prevent it using informal and formal education methods. | |||
| Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able (1) describe major intervention activities for obesity control; (2) discuss the effectiveness of an obesity control program; (3) describe the impact of a diabetes education program using both formal and informal methods; (4) discuss possible strategies for improving diabetes educations programs and (5) describe diabetes risk factors in specific populations. | |||
| Patricia Thompson-Reid, MAT, MPH | |||
| Introductory Remarks | |||
Obesity control among Chinese adolescents ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} Ling Qian, MD, PhD, Maojin Cheng, MD, Ian M. Newman, PhD | |||
| US- Mexico border diabetes prevention and control project: A bi-national collaboration in the fight against diabetes Rosalba Ruiz, MD MPH, Rita Diaz-Kenney, MPH, RD, LD, Gloria Beckles, MPH PhD, Agustin Lara, MD MPH, Rodolfo Valdez, PhD, Beatriz Apodaca, MD, MPH, Daniel Gutierrez, MD, MPH | |||
| Kuwait has the Highest Obesity level in the World: A Policy Proposal to Reduce Prevalence Kofo Rotimi, MD, MPH | |||
| A Community-Based Diabetes Education Program using Formal and Informal Community Leaders as Peer Educators Ranjita Misra, PhD, CHES, Padmini Balagopal, RD, CDE, N. Kamalamma, PhD | |||
| Concluding Remarks | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | International Health | ||
| Endorsed by: | Caucus on Refugee and Immigrant Health; Community Health Workers SPIG; Food and Nutrition; Maternal and Child Health; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Public Health Nursing; Socialist Caucus | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||
The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA