3122.0 Community-based Approaches to Address Disparities in Food and Activity Environments (jointly-organized by the Food and Nutrition & Environment Sections)

Monday, November 5, 2007: 10:30 AM
Oral
Organizer:
Sonya Jones, PhD

10:30 AM
Increasing the green: Farmers markets & EBT card access
Allison Karpyn, PhD, Brian Lang, BA and Yael Lehmann, MSW
  
10:45 AM
Healthy Eating by Design: A community-driven, multi-strategic approach to address the childhood overweight epidemic in low income communities
Joanne J. Lee, MPH, RD, LDN
           
11:00 AM
Neighborhood-based farmers' markets: A tool for promoting community food security
Darcy A. Freedman, MPH, Caitlin Skinner, BA, Frazier K. Beverly, ASN, Mary B. Wakefield, BS and Bola Teyinka
        
11:15 AM
Mobilizing partnerships: A community-based approach for promoting nutrition among African Americans and Latinos
Vicki L. Collie-Akers, PhD, MPH, Jerry A. Schultz, PhD, Valorie Carson, MS and Marianne Ronan
     
11:30 AM
Environmental Nutrition and Activity Local Policy Database: A tool for addressing disparities in food and activity environments
Leslie Mikkelsen, MPH, RD, Manal Aboelata, MS, Linda M. Shak, MSW and Carol Chao, BA
        

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

Organized by: Food and Nutrition
Endorsed by: Maternal and Child Health, Environment, APHA-Committee on Women's Rights, Caucus on Refugee and Immigrant Health, Community-Based Public Health Caucus

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

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