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American Public Health Association
133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
 APHA 2005
 
Session: Addressing Public Health Problems Through Health Education and Health Promotion
3383.1: Monday, December 12, 2005: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
Roundtable
Addressing Public Health Problems Through Health Education and Health Promotion
This roundtable session showcases various health education and health promotion programs, from the technology-driven to the community-based. Speakers will present details of a program working with beauty salons including a discussion of recruitment issues. In addition, another presentation on Hispanic organ donation will describe cultural issues that impact how members of this particular community may respond to organ donation. Throughout the different topics, the speakers will engage participants in discussion and provide the opportunity to ask direct questions.
Learning Objectives: At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
  1. Explain the particular opportunities and challenges presented by beauty salons as potential venues for health education and promotion activities; and
  2. Describe community-based approaches to public health problems, including youth violence.
Moderator(s):Su-I. Hou, DrPH, RN, CHES
Table 1"If we build it, will they come?": Three strategies to promote an online health education intervention
Amy S. Billing, MSSA, Nancy L. Atkinson, PhD, Robert S. Gold, PhD, DrPH
Table 2Recruiting beauty salons, licensed stylists, and their customers: Results from the North Carolina BEAUTY and Health Project
Laura A. Linnan, ScD, Veronica L. Carlisle, MPH, Kacey Hanson, MPH, Shrikant I. Bangdiwala, PhD, Kelly Evenson, PhD, Andrea K. Biddle, MPH, PhD, Alice Ammerman, DrPH, RD
Table 3Gathering evidence and building trust: Using community-based participatory research methods to develop the North Carolina BEAUTY and Health Project
Laura A. Linnan, ScD, CHES, Veronica L. Carlisle, MPH, Kacey Hanson, MPH, Alice Ammerman, DrPH, RD, Kelly Evenson, PhD
Table 4Hispanic live organ donation: A possible solution to waiting list overrepresentation and perceived inequities in organ distribution
Eusebio M. Alvaro, PhD, MPH, Jason Siegel, PhD, Alexander Dominick, William D. Crano, PhD
Table 5Salon owner interviews: Listening to gather information to create successful salon-based interventions
John Rose, MA, Laura Linnan, ScD, Veronica L. Carlisle, MPH, Kacey Hanson, MPH, Alice Ammerman, DrPH, RD, Kelly Evenson, PhD
Table 6Building theory and evidence-based interventions for African American women in beauty salons
Veronica L. Carlisle, MPH, Kacey Hanson, MPH, Meredith Jarblum, Ayana Mangum, Laura Linnan, ScD, Karen Hye-cheon Kim, PhD, Kelly Evenson, PhD, Alice Ammerman, DrPH, RD
Table 7Contrasting experiences with child healthcare services by mothers and professional caregivers in transitional housing
Maisha Amen, RN, PhD, Dula Pacquiao, EdD, RN, CTN
Table 8Effect of race and education on prostate cancer screening discussions
Carmen E. Guerra, MD, Samantha E. Jacobs, Judy A. Shea, PhD, Elizabeth A. Ellis Ohr, Robert Hornik, Dominick Frosch, PhD, John H. Holmes, PhD
Table 9Neighborhood median income and likelihood of receipt of cardiopulmonary resuscitation after Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in New York City
Shannon Blaney, MPH, Monique Kusick, Robert Silverman, MD, Neal Richmond, MD, David Vlahov, PhD, Sandro Galea, MD, MPH
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Public Health Education and Health Promotion
Endorsed by:Chiropractic Health Care; Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Community Health Workers SPIG; Socialist Caucus; Women's Caucus

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