5120.0 Child Health

Wednesday, October 29, 2008: 10:30 AM
Oral
This program combines a series of analyses about child health indicators including asthma and obesity as well as poverty. Factors are at the individual, family and community level and are differentially modifiable depending on the nature of the program. These findings provide important insights what programs to address these issues should take into consideration.
Session Objectives: Discuss different relationships between childhood obesity and individual behaviors and family status Describe approaches of imputing of child poverty Describe the association between asthma and insurance type.
Organizer:
Ann M. Dozier, RN, PhD
Moderator:
Ann M. Dozier, RN, PhD

10:30 AM
Association of Asthma Management and Insurance Type Among Children in the United States
Crystal Piper, MPH, MHA, PhD, Saundra Glover, MBA, PhD, Keith Elder, PhD, MPH, MPA, Jong-Deuk Baek, PH D and Scott Fernandez
10:45 AM
Childhood overweight and family socioeconomic status
Christopher Jarosz, PhD, Jean Tremaine, MA, MPH, Suzanne Bogert, MS, RD and Tony Kuo, MD, MSHS
11:00 AM
Dietary Behaviors, Physical Activity, and Weight Control Behaviors of Middle School Youth
Willie H. Oglesby, MSPH, PhD, Sara J. Corwin, MPH, PhD, Donna L. Richter, EdD,FAAHB, Ruth P. Saunders, PhD, MPH and Myriam E. Torres, PhD, MSPH
11:15 AM
Outside school activity participation and behavioral outcomes in middle childhood
LaJeana D. Howie, MPH, CHES, Susan L. Lukacs, DO, MSPH, Patricia N. Pastor, PhD and Cynthia A. Reuben, MA
11:30 AM
Imputation strategies for child poverty level
Kai Ya Tsai, MSPH, Trevor A. Pickering, MS and Gregory D. Stevens, PhD

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

Organized by: Maternal and Child Health
Endorsed by: Community Health Planning and Policy Development, Community Health Workers SPIG, Public Health Nursing, Socialist Caucus, School Health Education and Services, Women's Caucus

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