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Session: Furthering Health Education Through Advocacy Programs
5075.0: Wednesday, November 08, 2006: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
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Furthering Health Education Through Advocacy Programs
Advocacy has often been recognized as an integral part of public health campaigns. Presenters in this session focus their attention on furthering health education through their use of advocacy. The speakers in this session will describe programs addressing advocacy in a prostate cancer coalition, in our language, and for the elderly. Presenters will also address the importance of advocacy training for low-income clinic families and Maine teenagers.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) in this session will be able to: 1. Identify factors that contribute to and detract from advocacy efforts. 2. Discuss innovative techniques and strategies to foster advocacy efforts.
Moderator(s):Regina A. Galer-Unti, PhD, CHES
8:30 AMCalifornia Prostate Cancer Coaliton: Evolution through advocacy
Sarah Connor, MPH, CHES, Westley Sholes, Stan Mikkelsen, Andrew Reshke, Laura Baybridge
8:45 AMYouth 2 Youth: Advocating for public health and policy change  [ Recorded presentation ]
Kristina M. Chapman, BA, Kristen A. Gilbert, MED
9:00 AMChanging the language of public health to create humane public policy and systems  [ Recorded presentation ]
Richard Allan Aronson, MD, MPH, Christopher A. Kus, MD, MPH, Dwight Littlefield, RN, MBA, Katharine Theriault
9:15 AMInnovative Methods to Effective Advocacy  [ Recorded presentation ]
Elana Berman, MPH, Nilo Couret
9:30 AMClinic-based advocacy programs: A new piece of the public health infrastructure  [ Recorded presentation ]
Mark Hansen, MPH, Ellen Lawton, JD
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 Planning and Policy Development
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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