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Session: Other Issues of Importance to CHWs
3079.0: Monday, November 06, 2006: 10:30 AM-11:30 AM
Poster
Other Issues of Importance to CHWs
Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives
Board 1REACH 2010 community health workers use community forums to promote strategic action and policy change in their communities
Joel S. Meister, PhD, Professor, Leticia Gomez, Rebecca Garza, PhD, Noemi Garcia, Deborah Jean McClelland, MLS, Jill De Zapien
Board 2Promotores de Salud work in participatory research with Hispanic youth and families through DREAMS Project1 in Fort Worth, Texas
Mary Luna Hollen, PhD, RD, Ximena Urrutia-Rojas, DrPH, RN, Matt Stahl, BS, Isabel Vecino, MD, Enisa Arslanagic, MD, Maria G. Hernandez, CHW
Board 3Successful strategies for recruiting and sustaining community health workers as volunteers for diabetes/cardiovascular education
Angela J. Camilleri, MPH, MA, Cleveland Latimore, Miriam Urizar Rittmeyer, MD, PhD, MPH, Isabel Haring, Vicki J. Karlan, MPH, Julia D. Portale, MBA, MPH, Eileen Crowley, Kenneth S. Babamoto, PharmD, MPH
Board 4Hablando Claro: Using Peer Educators to gather and distribute evaluation data
Kara Beckman, BA
Board 5Community health workers (CHWs) as social change agents in community health centers
Darouny Somsanith, MPH
Board 6Oral health promotion as an entry point for community empowerment and development
Hugo Mora-Torres, BS, MA, Jose Mario Tercero, BA
Board 7Sana la Rana: The effectiveness of promotores based cholesterol education
Britt Rios-Ellis, PhD, MS, Lorena Rodriguez Chandler, MPH, Carlos A. Ugarte, MSPH
Board 8Role of community health workers in asthma management: Improving health through individualized asthma education
Jessica Purmort, BA, Micaela H. Coady, MS, Angela M. Bucciarelli, MPH, Sebastian Bonner, PhD
Board 9Finding Our Strength: Boston's Youth Worker Survey
Moacir Barbosa
Board 10Hearts N' Health: Expanding on the Promotoras model to provide cardiovascular health education and medical care among the Armenian community
Sally Fontamillas Shaw, DrPH, Bruce Nelson, MA, Anna Karapetyan, BS
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Community Health Workers SPIG
Endorsed by:Community-Based Public Health Caucus; Maternal and Child Health; Public Health Education and Health Promotion

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