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3047.0: Monday, November 06, 2006: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM | |||
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| In this session we will address several health disparity issues. We will describe health disparities facing vulnerable youth populations, particularly with respect to risk behavior. The presentations will articulate challenges in collecting data that accurately represents the most vulnerable youth. Also we will describe how information on health disparities can inform intervention design for programs targeting high risk youth. Low educational attainment and low socioeconomic status are associated with poor health outcomes. One of the presentations will discuss how to address low educational achievement through a three-day pilot intervention on a university campus referred to as the Latina Institute. Twenty, Hispanic girls completed the baseline cross-sectional survey. Respondents were from two, rural Arizona communities within three hours of the US/Mexico border. The percentages of persons above poverty, married couples raising their own children, and persons aged 25 or more with high school diplomas predict neighborhood crime rates. Both Mothers' and children's perceptions of neighborhood safety are significantly correlated to actual crime rates. Rates of crime in the current neighborhood predict risky behavior, but not as well as previous exposure to crime at age 9. These results from Washington State underscore the broad range of disparities among Washington youth with disabilities and the need to explore these disparities in more detail. Disability status is used as a key demographic for highlighting disparities in reports and these data have been included in a broader forum to engage stakeholders in determining different or unique intervention strategies for this population | |||
| Learning Objectives: At the end of this session, participants will be able to: 1) Describe health disparities facing vulnerable youth populations, particularly with respect to risk behavior. 2) Articulate challenges in collecting data that accurately represents the most vulnerable youth. 3) Describe how information on health disparities can inform intervention design for programs targeting hish risk youth. | |||
| Lynn Roberts, PhD Lacy M. Fehrenbach, MPH Katie Sellers, MPH | |||
Urban American Indian and Alaska Native Youth: Youth Risk Behavior Survey (1997-2003) ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} Shira P. Rutman, BA, Alice Park, MPH, Mei Lin Castor, MD, MPH, Maile Taualii, MPH, Ralph Forquera, MPH | |||
| Promoting health and academic achievement through an early outreach program for rural Hispanic girls Velia Leybas, Dominique Calza | |||
| Highlighting Disability Disparities Among Youth using Washington's Healthy Youth Survey Diane Pilkey, RN MPH, Bill Germann, PhD, Stacey De Fries, MSW, Riley Peters, PhD, Maria Nardella, MA RD CD | |||
| Early Adolescent Risk Behaviors: Family, Peer, and Neighborhood Effects Carole A. Hanks, DrPH, RN | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Maternal and Child Health | ||
| Endorsed by: | APHA-Committee on Women's Rights; Black Caucus of Health Workers; Caucus on Homelessness; Caucus on Refugee and Immigrant Health; Socialist Caucus | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||
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