Oral

This session will provide a discussion on various strategies to promote and enhance community involvement in health disparities and policy development. Specifically, this session will discuss results and impact of a week long pilot course for disaster management with a focus on special needs populations will be discussed; provide a discussion of the practical value for service providers in terms of health promotion and health education as well as program planning and service provision; provide a discussion of key indicators of poor mental health among adolescent mothers during pregnancy and postnatal period and describe strategies to integrate Latino communities in strategies to reduce health disparities. The importance of incorporating nutrition and biomedical approaches with an emphasis on community participation to inform the development of one's community based health promotion and disease prevention programs will also be discussed.

Session Objectives: Discuss systematic approaches for creating collaborative capacity to execute social marketing campaigns and identify appropriate measures for evaluating collaborative social marketing campaigns. Describe strategies to promote and enhance community involvement in health disparities and policy development. Define the influence of cultural components and biomedical factors on food choices of African American women of childbearing age.

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