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3311.0: Monday, November 06, 2006: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| This session will focus on social epidemiology in minority populations. Presentations will cover topics such as racial discrimination and health, the effect of neighborhoods in minority health, social risk factors for hypertension, spirituality, as well as a presentation about neighborhood effects on health in Taiwan. | |||
| Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) in this session will be able to: 1. Recognize the relationships between experienced discrimination due to race/ethnicity and coping strategies on health outcomes 2. Describe how perceived racial discrimination is related to neighborhood composition 3. Evaluate the social and environmental risk factors for hypertension from different perspectives 4. Understand whether neighborhood characteristics are associated with individual health in Taiwan 5. Describe the analytical methods to evaluate how the relationship between religious participation and physical health, mental health, and depression are modified by SES and race/ethnicity | |||
| Siobhan C. Maty | |||
Racial discrimination and health in six Chicago communities: Results from a community health survey ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} Teena Francois, MPH, Jocelyn Hirschman, MPH, Ami Shah, MPH, Steven Whitman, PhD | |||
| Neighborhoods, Perceived Discrimination, and Health Status Among African Americans Peter Baltrus, PhD, Yong Liu, MS, Sharon Davis, PhD | |||
| Social and environmental risk factors for hypertension in minorities: Preliminary data from the FAMU-Harvard project CHOICE research study Selina Rahman, MBBS, PhD, MPH, Howard Hu, MD ScD, Eileen McNeely, PhD, Saleh M. M. Rahman, MBBS, PhD, MPH, Nancy Krieger, PhD, Junenette Peters, ScD, Cynthia Harris, PhD, DABT, Cynthia H. Harris, PhD, Deborah Prothrow-Stith, MD, Brian K. Gibbs, PhD, Richard D. Gragg, PhD | |||
| Neighborhood Effects on Individual Health in Taiwan in the Years of 1990, 1995, and 2000 Ying-Chih Chuang, PHD, Yu Sheng Li, BPH, Chuan Chi Hung, MPH, Yi Hua Wu, MPH | |||
| Religious participation and the relationship to physical health, mental health and depression modified by socio-economic status and race/ethnicity from a cross-sectional analysis of a cohort of middle-aged adults in the year 2000 Jennifer A. Nolan, MS, PhD, Eunice Rodriguez, DrPH | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Epidemiology | ||
| Endorsed by: | APHA-Committee on Women's Rights; APHA-International Human Rights Committee; Maternal and Child Health | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||
The 134th Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 4-8, 2006) of APHA