212865 Domain 1 - Defining the Problem

Saturday, November 7, 2009: 9:30 AM

James Emery, MPH , Health Behavior and Health Education, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC
Health and social problems need defining and framing to encourage policy solutions. Root causes, evidence and framing in terms of stakeholder values are part of a successful definition.

Learning Objectives:
1. Describe how a problem definition is a social construction

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: For the past eleven years, I have been a Research Associate in the Dept. of Health Behavior and Health Education at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. I have guest lectured in a graduate managment course at UNC, and provided other presentations on health disparities to UNC students. I have designed and facilitated many workshops and retreats that have used adult learning principles to help audiences do strategis planning; audit urban environments, and learn to analyze and influence public policy. I am currently the lead developer for a competency-based curriculum to help the public health professionals learn to influence policy and environments.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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