5037.0 Community Health Workers Improving Health Care Delivery

Wednesday, November 11, 2009: 8:30 AM
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8:30 AM
Evaluation of an asthma medication training program for Mexican community health workers
Molly A. Martin, MD, Giselle Mosnaim, MD, Delia Rojas, BA, Olivia Hernandez and Laura Sadowski, MD, MPH
8:50 AM
Community Health Workers: Building capacity to address diabetes in the Bangladeshi community in New York City
Krittika Ghosh, MsC, Mamnunul Haq, Gulnahar Alam, Nadia Islam, PhD and Mariano Rey, MD
9:10 AM
Community Health Workers as members of a care delivery team: Two models in Washington, DC Healthy Start Programs
Ashley Hockaday Foster, MPH, Meagan Lyon, MPH, CHES and Anne Rossier Markus, JD, PhD, MHS

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

Organized by: Community Health Workers SPIG
Endorsed by: Asian Pacific Islander Caucus for Public Health, Community-Based Public Health Caucus, Latino Caucus, Public Health Nursing, Socialist Caucus

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