2044.0 Innovative Health Interventions that Meet Immigrants and Refugees' Needs

Sunday, November 4, 2007: 4:30 PM
Poster

Board 1
Control your health: A low-literacy, interactive educational program for Somali refugee women with chronic diseases
Ellyn R. Mulcahy, PhD, MPH and Carla Buchheit
Board 2
Latinas and weight control: The role of “buddy systems” in promoting Latinas' physical activity
Nancy Bruning, MPH, Anahi Viladrich, PhD and Ming-Chin Yeh, PhD
Board 3
Beyond language barriers and access to care: Less mental health care utilization by immigrants in primary care
Khelda S. Jabbar, MD MPH, Jennifer Tran, BA, Tali Averbuch, MPP, Jane M. Liebschutz, MD MPH, Jeffrey H. Samet, MD and Richard Saitz, MD,MPH
Board 4
Food and Nutrition Outreach for newly arrived refugees
Bethann Witcher Cottrell, PhD and Rachel O'Hara
Board 5
Improving health literacy through community access cable television: Experiences from the Somali TV Project
Diana K. DuBois, MPH, MIA, Laura C. Ehrlich, MPH, Andrea Leinberger-Jabari, MPH and Abdulkadir Osman
Board 6
Supporting recent immigrants in their effort to access information on health and health-related services: The case of 211 Toronto
Andrea A.M. Cortinois, Mr, Alejandro R. Jadad, Dr, Nadia Caidi, Dr and Richard Glazier, Dr
Board 7
Improving latent tuberculosis infection treatment completion rates in refugee communities through the use of organized education, outreach and follow-up
Joseph Johnson, MPH and Laura Hardcastle, BS
Board 8
Bringing the gap between rural Hispanics and health care services: Individual and community impacts of a community-based medical interpreters training program
Marcela Garces, MD, MSPH, Sergio Cristancho, PhD, Ben Mueller, MS and Karen E. Peters, DrPH
Board 9
Outreach and Human Trafficking: Lessons Learned From Community Collaborations
Michael B. McKee, MEd
Board 10
Treating an invisible population: Providing culturally competent care to newly arrived Liberian refugees
Osato F. Chitou, MPH and Katherine McFarlane, BS

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

Organized by: Caucus on Refugee and Immigrant Health
Endorsed by: Women's Caucus, Latino Caucus, Health Administration, APHA-Committee on Women's Rights

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