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3147.0: Monday, November 06, 2006: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| Minority health issues are an important part of health education’s work to eliminate disparities and work for social justice for all. In this session, presenters will describe their work in minority. Presenters in this session will describe the importance of engaging members of the community in their places of worship and leisure (e.g., barbershops). Other presenters describe their work in gaining understanding of the cultural factors that may exist in such behaviors as cancer screenings or leisure time activity. | |||
| Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) in this session will be able to: 1. Identify limitations of existing research on adolescent religiosity and sexual behavior; 2. Discuss cultural factors that serve as barriers to mammography and prostate cancer screening. 3. Describe disparities in leisure time physical activity among Latinos, Non-Hispanic whites and Non-Hispanic Blacks. | |||
| Roberta Hollander, PhD, MPH, MA | |||
| Religiosity, spirituality and sexual behavior among Black church youth Kenneth Steinman, PhD, MPH, Elizabeth Cooksey, PhD, Townsand Price-Spratlen, PhD, Korie Edwards, PhD, Linda James Myers, PhD | |||
| Native American Women and Screening Mammography: Notes from a Qualitative study Eleni Tolma, PhD, Chasity Belshe, BA, Robert Hamm, PhD, David M. Thompson, PhD, Kevin O'Brien, MD, Randy Hall, MPH | |||
| Barbers Cut Heart Disease Terrance Williams, BS | |||
| Factors Influencing the Informed Decision Making process for Prostate Cancer Screening in Black men Brian Rivers, PhD, Lee Green, PhD, Dhananjaya Arekere, PhD, Desiree Rivers, MPH, Kyrel Rowell, MS | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Public Health Education and Health Promotion | ||
| Endorsed by: | APHA-International Human Rights Committee; Black Caucus of Health Workers; Food and Nutrition; Socialist Caucus | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||
The 134th Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 4-8, 2006) of APHA