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Session: Healthy Communities
5078.0: Wednesday, November 08, 2006: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
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Healthy Communities
Health educators strive to build bridges to communities and community members. The speakers in this session will describe several programs that use innovative practices to build community partnerships. The speakers in this session will describe several programs that use techniques such as intergenerational education, train-the-trainer, interactive theatre, and a brown bag lunch forum to build bridges to community members.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) in this session will be able to: 1. Identify strategies for building effective community partnerships. 2. Describe the use of innovative techniques to build bridges to community members and improve the health of the public.
Moderator(s):Barbara E. Giloth, DrPH, CHES
8:30 AMIntergenerational high blood pressure education involving youth and older adults from racially diverse, low income communities in the United States
Russell M. Morgan, DrPH, Robert L. Bertera, DrPH, CHES
8:45 AM“It's Broke. Can We Fix It?”: A Community Forum Theater Dialogue on Disparities in Access to Health Care  [ Recorded presentation ]
John Sullivan, MA
9:00 AMImproving drowning surveillance through partnership and education: Riverside County, California  [ Recorded presentation ]
Michael Osur, MBA, Olivia Ballesteros, BA, Phill Coon, MS, Michael Osur, MBA, Wendy Betancourt, MPH
9:15 AMHigh tech/Low tech: A brown bag lunch approach to effectively implement an electronic medical record in community-based primary care clinics  [ Recorded presentation ]
LaRue Shaw, MHA, Meg Young, MS
9:30 AMHealth Promotion in Faith Communities: A Way to Improve Access to Primary Prevention  [ Recorded presentation ]
William L. Scheider, PhD
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; Gerontological Health
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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