4098.0 Latinos and health Disparities

Tuesday, November 6, 2007: 12:30 PM
Poster

Board 1
A pilot study to assess childhood overweight in a New Jersey public school district with Hispanic student majority: Lessons learned and role of policy
Claudia Garcia del Puerto, MD MPH, Lynn Waishwell, PHD, CHES and Camilla Comer-Carruthers, MPH
  
Board 2
Lessons Learned from a New Medical Spanish Course in a Physician Assistant Program
Genny Carrillo-Zuniga, MD, ScD, Bonnie Dadig, EdD, PA-C and W. Kent Guion, MD
Board 3
Birthplace is associated with patterns of condom use, HIV testing, self perceived risk, and ownership of HIV/AIDS among Latinos
Claudia L. Uribe, MD, MHA, William W. Darrow, PhD, Loreto P. Villanueva, Kenneth Obiaja, MD, MPH and Elizabeth Sanchez, MPH
Board 4
Infidelity in telenovelas popular among Latina adolescents: Implications for media literacy and sexual health interventions
Tilly A. Gurman, MPH
Board 5
Objective Criteria for Identifying Ethnic Sub-populations: Assessing Hispanic Patients in Rural Practice Settings
Yan Zhang, PhD and James Speer, PhD, JD
Board 6
Determinants of trust in low-income Hispanics
Luisa Franzini, PhD
Board 7
Identifying the gaps: Community member perspectives on Latino health care access in Baltimore, Maryland
Jorge Soler, MPH
Board 8
Local Policy: A tool for eliminating disparities in nutrition and activity-related chronic illnesses in Latino communities
Leslie Mikkelsen, MPH, RD, Manal Aboelata, MS, Linda M. Shak, MSW and Carol Chao, BA
Board 9
Medical risk factors, healthcare access and perceived health among Latinas with a history of gestational diabetes mellitus
Edith Kieffer, PhD, Brandy Sinco, MS and Catherine Kim, MD

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

Organized by: Latino Caucus
Endorsed by: Socialist Caucus, HIV/AIDS, Caucus on Refugee and Immigrant Health, Black Caucus of Health Workers, Community-Based Public Health Caucus

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