5129.0 Social Sciences in Health: Health Promotion Among Underserved, Hard-To-Reach Populations

Wednesday, November 7, 2007: 12:30 PM
Oral
Presider:
John B. Wayne, PhD

12:30 PM
Strategies for improving influenza immunization rates among hard-to-reach populations
Micaela H. Coady, MS, Danielle C. Ompad, PhD, David Vlahov, PhD and Sandro Galea, MD,DrPH
        
12:45 PM
Using health promoters, as part of a school-based health center health promotion program, to gain access to underserved and hard-to-reach families
Mark Hodge, RN, MS, Judith Covich, RN, MA, Joan Glick, RN, MSN and Jonathan Chin, BA
        
1:00 PM
Preliminary findings of cultural health beliefs and practices that shape health literacy and chronic illness outcomes in four populations
Cristina I. Huebner, MA, Susan Shaw, PhD, James Vivian, PhD, Julie Armin, MA and Kay Orzech, ABD
     
1:15 PM
Integrating the Chronic Care Model in the Management of Obesity In an Inner City Population
James Plumb, MD, MPH, Rickie O. Brawer, MPH, Nancy Brisbon, MD, Vanessa Briggs, MBA, RD, LDN and Constantine Daskalakis, ScD
     
1:30 PM
Impact of child health insurance expansions on ambulatory care-sensitive hospitalizations in California
Michael Cousineau, DrPH, Gregory D. Stevens, PhD and Trevor A. Pickering
           

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Medical Care
Endorsed by: Socialist Caucus, Caucus on Refugee and Immigrant Health

CE Credits: CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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