Medical Care

NOTE: Sessions in italic have been organized by another Section, SPIG, Caucus or Forum but endorsed by Medical Care.

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Click the Poster Index link on the left to view the list of poster sessions.

Saturday, October 25, 2008

5:30 PM-7:00 PM

Sunday, October 26, 2008

10:00 AM-11:30 AM

2:00 PM-3:30 PM

4:00 PM-5:30 PM

5:30 PM-7:00 PM

Monday, October 27, 2008

7:00 AM-8:00 AM

8:30 AM-10:00 AM

3028.0

Cancer Epidemiology

3051.0

Rural & Frontier Health: Capacity Building/Rebuilding, Emergency Preparedness, Evidence Based Treatment, Telehealth/Videoconferencing

3052.0

Health Services Research: Cancer, Obesity, Heart Transplant, Pneumococcal Vaccination, & Child Abuse

10:30 AM-12:00 PM

3095.0

Racial/Ethnic Differences in Drug Abuse, Treatment Systems, Utilization, & Risk

3112.0

Enhancing Access to Care and Reducing ER Use by High-Risk Urban and Rural Populations

3142.0

Drug Safety and FDA Reform: Are we better off now?

12:30 PM-2:00 PM

3205.0

Reducing Health Disparities for Rural Populations

3230.0

Quality Improvement in Chronic Disease Management

3231.0

State and local programs to address disparities in colorectal cancer (CRC)

3232.0

Ethnic & Racial Disparities: Asthma, Diabetes, Men's Health, & Safety-Net Systems

3233.0

Women's Health & Gender-Based Research & Policy: Quality of Care, Unmet Needs, Gender Disparities, Failure to Progress

3238.0

War and Public Health

3250.0

Policy Issues in School Health

2:30 PM-4:00 PM

3336.0

Globalization: Outsourcing Medical Jobs

3341.0

Quality Improvement: National, State, & Community Indicators

3342.0

Medicina Social and Social Medicine: A Framework for Bridging Borders

3343.0

Health Economics: Policies to Reduce Costs & Improve Outcomes

3347.0

Occupational Health Disparities Institute: Safety, Health and Social Justice for Immigrant Workers - Lessons from the NIOSH EJ projects

3361.0

Health and Trade Policy for Specific Industries

4:30 PM-6:00 PM

3397.0

Social Inequalities in Healthcare

3405.0

Environmental Health Concerns in Border Communities

3422.0

Update on Health Services Research: Looking Forward, Looking Back

6:30 PM-8:00 PM

8:30 PM-10:00 PM

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

7:00 AM-8:00 AM

8:30 AM-10:00 AM

4018.0

Environmental Justice Science: Approaches to Study and Address Environmental Health Disparities

4031.0

Social Security and Medicare: How Will They Fare in 2009 and Beyond?

4058.0

Social Justice and Health Access

4065.0

Public Health Strategies To Address Trade Policy

10:30 AM-12:00 PM

4108.0

Health Services Research: Access to Care

12:30 PM-2:00 PM

4160.0

Launching Your Career in Public Health

4173.0

Communicating the Public Health Aspect of Climate Change

4200.0

Using CHIS data to Measure and Understand Racial and Ethnic Disparities

4201.0

Social Sciences in Health: Causal Pathways, Translational Research, Risk Factors, Adherence to Screening, U.S. Healthcare Reform

4202.0

Ethnic & Racial Disparities: Assessment Using Nationwide Databases

4203.0

Medical Care Section Student Paper Award Session

4205.0

Invited Session: Psychopharmacology Treatment with Youth: the Roles of the Child Welfare System, Foster Care, Insurance, Prescriber Specialty, and Comorbidities

2:30 PM-4:00 PM

4264.0

Health Disparities

4266.0

Cancer Screening (e.g., Mammography, Colorectal Screening) and Prevention

4268.0

Psychiatric Epidemiology

4290.0

Social Sciences in Health: Cultural Sensitivity in Clinical Settings/Encounters

4291.0

Health Access & the Election: What Happened, What Didn't, What Next. P Ellen Parsons Memorial Session

4292.0

Crossing Borders: Can Federal Receiverships Cure Prison (Non)healthcare? The California Department of Corrections as a Case Study

4:30 PM-6:00 PM

4336.0

Killing Us Softly: Public Health Implications of Tobacco Industry 'Corporate Social Responsibility'

4355.0

Symposium: Nursing Home Staffing, Costs and Quality of Care

4363.0

Avedis Donabedian Award in Quality Improvement Session

4364.0

Between Inclusion & Exclusion: Public Health in 20th Century America

4365.0

Veterans' Health: PTSD, Sexual Trauma, Cardiovascular Disease, Medication Adherence, Post-Deployment Needs

4373.0

Labor, Peace and Public Health: Building Alliances to End the Iraq War

6:30 PM-8:00 PM

4385.0

Evening with Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein & Presentation of the Viseltear Award to Emily Abel

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

7:00 AM-8:00 AM

8:30 AM-10:00 AM

5058.0

Women’s Health

5064.0

Health Economics: Access to Health Care

5065.0

Health Services Research: Medication Adherence, Outcomes, & Billing

5066.0

Drug Policy & Pharmacy Services

5067.0

Universal Access to Care

5084.0

Promoting School Nutrition Environments for Obesity Prevention

10:30 AM-12:00 PM

5117.0

Public Interests & the Pharmaceutical Industry

5123.0

Health Economics: Preventable & Non-preventable Costs

5124.0

Health Services Research: Hospital Occupancy, Utilization, Finances, & Workforce

12:30 PM-2:00 PM

5147.0

Health Care as a Civil Right

5153.0

Cancer Epidemiology II

5157.0

Social Epidemiology: Effects of Race/Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Disparities on Health

5175.0

Social Sciences in Health: Health Disparities in Migrant & Immigrant Populations

5182.0

From War to Poverty: The Impact of Violence on Health from Beirut to Bagdhad, Karachi to Kabul

5192.0

Policies and Programs for Promoting Tobacco Free Schools

5195.0

Trade Policy, Health, Economics and Justice