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Session: Strategies to Advocate for Public Health
4301.0: Tuesday, November 07, 2006: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
Oral
Strategies to Advocate for Public Health
Abstracts in this sessions will describe: how commmunity and policy influences school-readiness, the phase-model approach to enacting public health policies and the five phases for enacting policies.
Learning Objectives: Participants will learn how: 1)commmunity and policy influences school-readiness; 2)to describe the phase-model approach to enacting public health policies and 3)to list five phases for enacting policies.
Moderator(s):Julia Liou, MPH
4:30 PM“Root Shock” revisited: Perspectives of early Head Start parents on community and policy environments and their affect on child health, development, and school-readiness
Carol McAllister, PhD, Tammy Thomas, MSW, MPH, Patrick C. Wilson, PhD, Beth Green, PhD
4:45 PMPhase Model: A practical approach to enact public health policies  [ Recorded presentation ]
Monty Messex, MPH, Mark D. Weber, PhD, Linda Aragon, MPH, Jack Nicholl, MA
5:00 PMPartnering with multidisciplinary agencies and building community capacity to ensure safety of immigrant survivors of domestic/sexual violence through advocacy and policy development  [ Recorded presentation ]
Deborah Jean McClelland, MLS, Tessa Mayorga, MPH, BSN, Maia Ingram, MPH, Montserrat Caballero, Laura Horsley, Maureen Domogala
5:15 PMEvaluation of a legislated smoke-free policy in Arkansas  [ Recorded presentation ]
Christine E. Sheffer, PhD, J. Gary Wheeler, MD, James M. Raczynski, PhD, John B. Wayne, PhD
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Endorsed by:Academic Public Health Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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