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5136.0: Wednesday, November 08, 2006: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM | |||
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| Community members, policymakers, and key informants are accepted partners in developing community health programs. The speakers in this session will describe their approaches to involving community members in their efforts to improve the health of the community through obesity prevention and teen mortality reduction. The session will also include discussions of: Training firefighters in communicable disease knowledge, bringing rural communities together through technology, and developing community- driven health planning in one state. | |||
| Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) in this session will be able to: 1. Recognize the importance of community-driven health planning as a core process for public health systems. 2. Identify barriers to effective communication and collaboration experienced by community-based public health programs. 3. Discuss strategies and steps for coalition building and the multi-level approach to community change. | |||
| Michelle Chuk, MPH | |||
| Does competition matter? Role of competition in promoting community wide interventions to reduce obesity Irena Pesis-Katz, ABD, Wendy Besio, MS, RD, I. Diana Fernandez, MD, MPH, PhD | |||
Community-driven health improvement planning: Florida public health partners mobilize to identify priorities and take action ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} C. Meade Grigg, MA, Christine Abarca, MPH, CHES, Debbie Reich, MA, Jo Ann Steele, MPH | |||
| ECommunity of Practice: Technology to Support Community Participation and Inclusivity Chara Stewart, MPH, CHES, Will Torrence, PhD, Paul Greene, PhD, Kelly Duke, MA, Alan VanBiervliet, PhD, Ronda Henry-Tillman, MD, FACS | |||
| Tackling teen mortality: Aligning community organizations for optimum risk-taking interventions Patricia Zerounian, BA, Dona Putnam, BSN, PHN, Krista Hanni, MS, PhD, Cheryl M. Ellemberg, MPH, CHES, Lori R. Martin, MS, RD, John P. Snider, MPH, MPA | |||
| Building partnerships within the city of Boston: The impact of outreach education at the community level Kimberly Martin, RN, MAT, Pam Coppinger, RN, BSN, M. Anita Barry, MD, MPH, Donna Caron, RN, MSN | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Public Health Education and Health Promotion | ||
| Endorsed by: | Black Caucus of Health Workers; Community Health Workers SPIG; Socialist Caucus | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||
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