Session: Alliances, Partnerships, and Interorganizational Relationships for Health Improvement

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APHA Scientific Session and Event Listing

5053.0: Wednesday, November 08, 2006: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Oral

Alliances, Partnerships, and Interorganizational Relationships for Health Improvement

Learning Objectives: At the end of this session, participants will be able to: (1) Identify opportunities for using alliances and partnerships to address pressing health policy and administrative problems; (2) Assess the strengths and limitations of alternative partnership strategies; (3) Describe key steps in developing and maintaining partnerships and alliances for health administration.

Moderator(s):

Vonna J. Henry, MPH

8:30 AM

Taking the guest-work out of school–health interagency partnerships in Massachusetts

Leslie A. Mandel, MS, MA, PhDc

8:45 AM

Regional Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness: An eight county initiative

Donald W. Rowe, PhD, William Dice, MD

9:00 AM

First responders first: A model for prophylaxing first responders during an epidemic

Kristine Qureshi, RN, DNSc, Eileen Scanlon, BSN, Robyn, M. Gershon, DrPH, Shelly Schechter, MPH

9:15 AM

Quebec Health and Social Services Centres and the extension of the WHO concept of health promoting hospital

Nicole Dedobbeleer, ScD, André-Pierre Contandriopoulos, PhD, Hung Nguyen, MSc, Louise Rousseau, PhD, Lise Lamothe, PhD, Robert Bilterys, MSc, Zahra Elmmala, MSc

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by:

Health Administration

Endorsed by:

Academic Public Health Caucus; Occupational Health and Safety

CE Credits:

CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

The 134th Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 4-8, 2006) of APHA