2054.0 Climate changes, migration and its impact on health

Sunday, November 8, 2009: 4:30 PM
Poster

Board 1
Increasing Breast Cancer Screening in Refugee Communities: Identifying Best Practices Among Lay Health Educators
Erin Beardsworth, Kelsey Davidson, Andrew Fanous, Rebecca Gordon, Brian Kilonzo, Isaac Leader, Jason Shen, Deborah Dameron, Tania Bertsch, MD and Jan K. Carney, MD MPH
Board 2
Cultural and Linguistic Issues in Developing an Adaptation of the Geriatric Depression Scale for Laotian Elderly
Giang T. Nguyen, MD, MPH, MSCE, Jin Hui Joo, MD MA, Elaine J. Yuen, PhD, Ethan T. Nguyen, BA, Yuko Sakata, Shong Chai Hang and Somsanith Phommachanh
Board 3
Patient-Physician Language Concordance and Primary Care Screening Practices among Spanish-Speaking Patients
Pracha Peter Eamranond, MD MPH
Board 4
Voices of Parents and Pediatricians: Experiences of Chinese Immigrant Children in Seeking Pediatrics Health Care Services
Gengsheng Lu, MAA, Loretta Au, MD, Shao-Chee Sim, PhD and Teresa Sze Wah Mak
Board 5
Health Intervention Addressing Increased Prevalence of Diabetes in a Chinese Immigrant Community: Evaluation Findings of Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Diabetes Self-Management Workshops
Jasmin Khargi, MPH, Jolene Chou, MPH, Lau Yan Toa, RN, CDE, Brenda Wan, BA and Shao-Chee Sim, PhD
Board 6
Nativity and health in the Russian Federation: What explains the healthy migrant effect?
Cynthia Jane Buckley, PhD
  
Board 7
Community Connections and Collaboration
Joan K. Brandt, PhD, MPH, RN, Carol Pavlish, PhD, MS, RN, Jeannine Mueller-Harmon, MS, FNP, RN, Barbara Champlin, PhD, MS, RN and Sahra Noor, RN, MS
Board 8
Documented and undocumented immigrant men's potential access to health care
Claudia S. Coggin, PhD, CHES, Khiya Marshall, DrPH, Guadalupe Munguia, MD, MPH and Ximena Urrutia-Rojas, DrPH
Board 9
Using Community Assets to Select and Adapt Evidence Based Strategies: A Lay Health Advisor Program to Increase Breast Cancer Screening in Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Nepali Communities
Zul H. Surani, BS, Loraine Agustin, MPH and Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati, PhD, MPH
  
Board 10
Responding to a community request: Gender exclusive swims in a Somali immigrant community
Eva M. Moore, MD, Mohamed Ali, MPH, Elinor Graham, MD, MPH and Linda Quan, MD, MPH
     

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Organized by: Caucus on Refugee and Immigrant Health
Endorsed by: Alternative and Complementary Health Practices, Asian Pacific Islander Caucus for Public Health, Community Health Planning and Policy Development, Socialist Caucus, Women's Caucus

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