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Session: Communities Working Together to Improve Health
3145.0: Monday, November 06, 2006: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Roundtable
Communities Working Together to Improve Health
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) in this session will be able to: 1. Identify critical methods involved in conducting a community-based, participatory health assessment. 2. Recognize key challenges related to conducting community-based, participatory health assessments focused on adolescent populations. 3. Identify the primary evaluation challenges for non-research community collaborative public health projects.
Moderator(s):Johanna M. Hinman, MPH, CHES
Table 1Organizing a Healthy Community
Michael J. Coughlin, MS, David S. Weed, Psy D
Table 2A community-participatory health assessment of API youth in San Francisco's Richmond and Sunset districts
Victoria A. Aldaz, BS, Liliana Ramirez, BS, Brad A. Vanderbilt, BA
Table 3Evidence to inference: Designing a multi-level evaluation strategy for a community collaborative public health project
Ryan Ehrensberger, MPH, Adrienne E. Keller, PhD, Ashley Cunningham, BS
Table 4Participatory Action Research, A Community Mobilization Srategy to Reduce Alcohol and Drug Use
Jessie B. Williams, Mary Ann Zizzo, Leslie S. Aldrich, MPH, Rosina T. Bowman
Table 5Organizational-level change from the California Healthy Cities and Communities (CHCC) initiative (1998-2003): A summary of findings
Robert Aronson, DrPH, Barbara L. Norton, MPH, Michelle Kegler, DrPH, Joan Twiss, MEd
Table 6Livable neighborhoods campaign: A case study of empowerment and power
Joseph Hughey, PhD, N. Andrew Peterson, PhD
Table 7“Healthy People 2010” – Is there a gap in reaching the grass roots level? *
William C. Andress, DrPH, MPH, CHES, Stafford Rorke, DPhil, FACSM
Table 8Overcoming Barriers to Building Community Trust: Engagement for Eliminating Health Disparities
Stephen B. Thomas, PhD, Angela F. Ford, PhD, Sekai Turner, PhD, Mario Browne, MPH, Karen Reddick, MS, Victoria Garner, BA
Table 9New Approaches to Technical Assistance in Community-Based Health Promotion
Ayana N. Perkins, MA, Kimberly Jeffries-Leonard, PhD, Erika Symonette, MS, Erika Taylor, PhD, Julia Hoglund, MPH, Lynwood McAllister, MA, Shannon Hernandez, MBA
Table 10Community fit kit : A tool for health improvement
Kusuma Madamala, PhD, MPH, Emily Fondahn
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Public Health Education and Health Promotion
Endorsed by:Community Health Workers SPIG; Community-Based Public Health Caucus

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