Back to Annual Meeting
|
Back to Annual Meeting
|
APHA Scientific Session and Event Listing |
4117.0: Tuesday, November 07, 2006: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
| |||
This session will describe how to translate community-based participatory research into advocacy strategies, apply lessons learned from the Turning Point Act experience to state legislative reform efforts and identify the barriers involved in establishing a county health department. | |||
Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1)translate community-based participatory research into advocacy strategies; 2)apply lessons learned from the Turning Point Act experience to state legislative reform efforts and 3)identify the barriers involved in establishing a county health department. | |||
Sarah Stone-Francisco, MPH | |||
Using a community health partnership to influence policy makers to establish/sustain a county health department in a rural, underserved South Texas border county Julie Ann St. John, MA, MPH, Michael Felix, James N. Burdine, DrPH, Monica L. Wendel, MA, MPH | |||
An update on the Steps to a HealthierUS cooperative agreement program Tomas Rodriguez, MA | |||
Funding for prevention: Successful strategies for increasing public health in state budgets Eric Weltman, MA, Geoffrey Wilkinson, MSW | |||
Modernizing public health law: The impact of the Turning Point Model State Public Health Act on state legislative reforms Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, Kristine Gebbie, DrPH, RN, James Hodge, JD, LLM, Lawrence Gostin, JD, LLD | |||
Public health advocacy: Working with underserved communities, public health practitioners and students to create policy and environmental change Joel S. Meister, PhD, Professor, Jill De Zapien | |||
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
Organized by: | Community Health Planning and Policy Development | ||
Endorsed by: | Injury Control and Emergency Health Services; Medical Care; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Socialist Caucus | ||
CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing |
The 134th Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 4-8, 2006) of APHA