2040.1 Alternative and Complementary Health Practices Poster 1

Monday, November 5, 2007: 4:30 PM
Poster
This session brings together a variety of topics related to Alternative and Complimentary Health Practices (ACHP).
Session Objectives: 1) Evaluate evidence-based research related to Alternative and Complementary Health Practices; 2) Understand theoretical and conceptual frameworks for applying CAM therapies; 3) Identify models for developing new Alternative and Complementary Health Practices.
Facilitator:
Rick Harvey, PhD, MS

Board 1
Differences in prevention and complementary health behaviors
Steven E. Shive, PHD, MPH, Grace X. Ma, PhD, Yin Tan, MD, Jamil I. Toubbeh, PhD, Lalitha Parameswaran and Joseph Halowich, MS, CHES
Board 2
Courage Attitudes Related to First Responder Performance
Rick Harvey, PhD, MS
Board 3
Yoga for Persons with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Steffany Haaz, MFA, Chethan Ram Kasargod Prabhakar, MBBS and Susan J. Bartlett, PhD
Board 4
What I don't tell my doctor: Herbal use among Latino patients in San Bernardino, CA
Juan Carlos Belliard, PhD, MPH, Adriana Arzate, MPH (c), Waheed Baqai, MPH, Kathryn Knecht, PhD, Claudio Japas, MPH and Susanne Montgomery, PhD, MPH
Board 5
Development of an Integrative Oncology Consult Service: Program Analysis and Public Health Implications
David S. Rosenthal, MD, Anne M. Doherty-Gilman, MPH and Elizabeth Dean-Clower, MD, MPH
Board 6
Disparities in Mortality: Challenges for Public Health
Vafa Kamali, PhD, Peter J. Fos, PhD, MPH and Miguel A. Zuniga, MD, DrPH
Board 7
Practice characteristics of massage therapists participating in a practice-based research project in Iowa
Karen Boulanger, MS, LMT
Board 8
Research in CAM – Are Randomized Controlled Trials the Absolute Truth?
Tamar Shalom, Nadav Davidovitch, MD, MPH, PhD and Avishay Goldberg, PhD
Board 9
Clinical Efficacy of Chinese Herbal Medicine in the Treatment of Chronic Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura
Ju-Tzu Li, MD (Taiwan), Sivarama Prasad Vinjamury, MD and Wen-Shuo Wu, MD (Taiwan)
Board 10
Creating future leaders in integrative medicine: Evaluation data from a CAM leadership training program for medical students
M. Caitlin Phelps, MA, Stergios Roussos, PhD, MPH, Wendy Kohatsu, MD and Steve Turner, MSIV

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

Organized by: Alternative and Complementary Health Practices
Endorsed by: Latino Caucus, Asian Pacific Islander Caucus of APHA

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