Community Health Planning and Policy Development

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Call for Abstracts - APHA Annual Meeting 2007
Community Health Planning and Policy Development

The CHPPD section invites abstracts related to the conference theme, "Politics, Policy and Public Health” which will be held in Washington D.C., and to areas of special interest to health planners and related fields. We are especially interested in studies that may inform public health policy and/or describe the impact of existing public health policies; and in abstracts on various aspects of health information technology and emergency preparedness.

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
  • Affecting structural change in communities through partnerships
  • Developing public health infrastructure to address critical systems development including emergency preparedness and workforce development
  • Issues related to managed care, Medicaid, Medicare, SCHIP and the uninsured, focusing on reducing barriers and disparities inadequacy of and access to care for disenfranchised populations, including the children, working poor, elderly, uninsured, homeless, and prisoners
  • Methodological techniques and tools utilized in healthcare and community health planning, policy development and evaluation, e.g. Internet, electronic health records including personal health records, and information technology, communication strategies, etc
  • Methodological techniques utilized in healthcare and community health planning including strategic planning processes, outcomes research, needs assessments, and qualitative studies
  • Public health advocacy, including descriptions of successful models for influencing policy, regulations and/or legislation
  • Serving cultural and linguistic minorities through public health and partner organizational cultural competency and proficiency, including addressing the issues of health literacy and language access.
  • The impact of the environment on chronic conditions and health prevention, with an emphasis on policy implications
  • The role of government in translating health promotion and disease prevention into effective public policy
Abstracts should be of 250 words or less. Referral to web pages or URLs may not be used for abstracts. For any and all inquiries always refer to the abstract by your abstract number as assigned to you on-line.

This section encourages students and those who have never presented at an APHA annual meeting, especially minorities, to become "new presenters" in 2007. Be sure to indicate new presenter or student status when you submit your abstract on the web page.

Invited Sessions in the Community Health Planning and Policy Development Section

To propose an invited session in our section the organizer needs to a) be a member of APHA; and b) have CHPPD (Community health Planning and Policy Development) as their first section choice.

Contact either myself or Sue Myers, Chair, CHPPD with your idea for an "invited session." If/when your session idea is approved then you need to do the following within the APHA timeframe for submitted abstracts:

1) Contact your speakers and have them submit abstracts. They will each receive an abstract number for each abstract submitted, which they need to keep and send to you.

2) Gather your speakers’ names, abstract titles and abstract numbers and email them to Roy Grant at rgrant@chfund.org. Please include a session title, brief description (overview) and session goals.

The set of abstracts for the session will be forwarded together to the reviewers as an “invited session.” Please remember that each of the abstracts has to go through the peer review process to be accepted.
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Program Planner Contact Information:
Roy Grant, MA
The Children's Health Fund
215 West 125th Street
3rd Floor
New York, NY 10027
Phone: 212-535-9400
rgrant@chfund.org