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Session: Social Sciences in Health
4145.0: Tuesday, November 07, 2006: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Oral
Social Sciences in Health
Learning Objectives: 1. Describe social stigma in neighborhoods; 2. Understand JCAHO's guidelines around religious and spiritual care in hospitals; 3. Identify reason for the non-linear appearance of the income health relationship; 4. Describe how faculty and staff at an academic medical center can lead an effort for addressing health care disparities at their institution; 5. Indicate whether acculturation, generational status, place of birth, and primary language are associated with overweight in US adolescents.
Presider(s):Ellen Isaacs, MD
12:30 PMPerception of Neighborhood Disorder and Neighborhood Stigma  [ Recorded presentation ]
Luisa Franzini, PhD, Margaret Caughy, PhD, Patricia O'Campo, PhD
12:45 PMEmbracing, accommodating, and avoiding: How staff respond to religion and spirituality in neonatal and medical intensive care units
Wendy Cadge, PhD, Elizabeth A. Catlin, MD
1:00 PMFamily income, work disability and reported health
Andreas Muller, PhD
1:15 PMLessons learned: Growing a racial and ethnic health care disparities task force from within the ranks of an academic medical center
Billy R. Thomas, MD, MPH, Nancy E. Dockter, BA, Hosea W. Long, MA, Creshelle R. Nash, MD, MPH, Eduardo R. Ochoa, MD, Willa B. Sanders, MPA, Carla C. Sparks, BS, M. Kate Stewart, MD, MPH, H. Otis Tyler, MS
1:30 PMAcculturation, generational status, place of birth, primary language at home, and overweight: A case of "When in Rome, do as the Romans do?"
Jane M. Brotanek, MD, MPH, Hong Ji, MS, Emmanuel Ngui, DrPH, MSc, Glenn Flores, MD
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Medical Care
Endorsed by:APHA-Committee on Women's Rights; Occupational Health and Safety; Socialist Caucus; Vietnam Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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