5086.0 Breast Cancer Awareness, Screening, and Control: Innovative Strategies for Reducing Disparities

Wednesday, November 11, 2009: 8:30 AM
Oral
This oral session examines innovative strategies for reducing disparities in breast cancer morbidity and mortality. Efforts to increase breast cancer screening and control activities in a variety of different communities, including urban inner cities, medically underserved areas, small rural states, and US-Mexico border counties are presented. Innovative strategies include programs designed to increase mammography capacity and the use of patient navigators as a means of decreasing breast cancer mortality. Special emphasis is placed on increasing knowledge of risk and prevention for women in at-risk communities.
Session Objectives: 1. Compare breast cancer interventions tailored to diverse communities, with an emphasis on culturally- and linguistically appropriate efforts; 2. Identify strategies for using lay health workers to engage community efforts in breast cancer screening, control, and treatment programs; and 3. Describe potential barriers to meeting mammography capacity in resource-limited environments.
Moderator:
Isabel C. Scarinci, PhD, MPH

8:30 AM
Can we fulfill the recommendation of annual recommendation of breast cancer screening? Mammography capacity in Chicago
Kristi L. Allgood, MPH, Garth Rauscher, PhD and Steven Whitman, PhD
  
8:50 AM
Patient-provider partnership, body knowledge, and long-term practice: BSE beliefs and practices among four ethnic groups in a medically underserved area
Julie Armin, MA, Cristina I. Huebner, MA, Susan Shaw, PhD, James Vivian, PhD, Ana Vargas, BA, Phuong Do, Jeffrey Markham Jr., BA, Victor Reyes and Chandy Leverance
  
9:10 AM
Upstate Witness Project: Addressing breast and cervical cancer disparities in African American churches
Rachel Mayo, PhD, Dolores B. Scott, MEd and Deloris Williams, RN, MSN, PhD
  
9:30 AM
Heterogeneity in breast cancer knowledge, attitude and screening practices among Hispanic women with and without a family history of breast cancer
Yelena Bird, MD, PhD, MPH, John Moraros, MD,PhD,MPH,CHES, Mathew Banegas, MS, MPH, Robert W. Buckingham, Dr PH, Sasha King, RN, MPH and Kiran Sapkota, MS
  

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

Organized by: Women's Caucus
Endorsed by: APHA-Committee on Women's Rights, Gerontological Health, Maternal and Child Health, Socialist Caucus, Social Work

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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