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Session: Cancer Screening: A Health Promotion Challenge
5041.0: Wednesday, November 08, 2006: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
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Cancer Screening: A Health Promotion Challenge
This session contains papers that will: describe ways of increasing cancer screening rates in underserved communities, list five recommended options for colorectal cancer screeing and descrobe the benefits of promoting informed clinical decision making.
Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1)describe ways of increasing cancer screening rates in underserved communities; 2)list five recommended options for colorectal cancer screeing and 3)recognize the benefits of promoting informed clinical decision making.
Moderator(s):Rose Marie Jackman, MPH
8:30 AMPromoting informed clinical decisionmaking at the community-level: Prostate cancer screening with the PSA test
David Driscoll, PhD, MPH, Lauren McCormack, PhD, Cindy Soloe, MPH, Jon Poehlman, PhD, Pamela Williams-Piehota, PhD, Kathleen Lohr, PhD, Russell Harris, MD, MPH, Stacey Sheridan, MD, MPH, Carol E. Golin, MD, MPH, Sam Cykert, MD
8:45 AMAddressing disparities in colorectal cancer screening
Mona Sarfaty, MD, Shibao Feng, PhD
9:00 AMDialogue for action: Evaluation of a multi-state program to increase colorectal cancer screening  [ Recorded presentation ]
Jasmine Greenamyer, MPH, Carolyn Aldigé, Karen Peterson, PhD, Judith S. Blanchard, MS, Erica Childs, MPH, Tania Torres, Andrea Dwyer, June Ryan, MA, Lois Hall, Robert Villanueva
9:15 AMCollaborating to improve access to breast health services for the uninsured  [ Recorded presentation ]
Dorothy Weston Gibbons, BA, Ginny Thompson, MPH, CHES
9:30 AMHealth policy and the impact on breast cancer screening  [ Recorded presentation ]
Margaret E. Thompson, MD, Barbara Hager, MPH, Lucy Im, MPH, Charlotte Williams, MPH, Kent Westbrook, MD, Paul Greene, PhD, Suzanne Klimberg, Ronda Henry-Tillman, MD
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Endorsed by:Epidemiology; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Women's Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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