3301.0 Critical Issues in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Monday, November 8, 2010: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Oral
This session discusses disease risk across various populations. It explores a model for locating different ways in which public health practitioners can use language to catalyse action in response to public health risks, and to justify regulatory interventions.
Session Objectives: At the end of this session, participants will be better able to Describe how communities may share health information to support disease management. Describe variations in Black mortality due to sickle cell disease according to ethnicity and place within the US. Explain specific chronic disease risks reported by urban, low-income neighborhoods.
Moderator:
Patricia Peretz, MPH

2:30pm
Successful disease management in a community sharing health information through an exchange
Anjum Khurshid, PhD, MBBS
2:45pm
Mortality from sickle cell disease: Geographic and ethnic variation within the United States
Maria del Pilar Aguinaga, PhD, DLM, ASCP, Green A. Ekadi, PhD, MS, Barbara Kilbourne, Maureen Sanderson, PhD and Robert S. Levine, MD
3:00pm
Geographic variations in heart disease mortality and socioeconomic status (SES) in Davidson County zip codes, Tennessee: Do differences in geographic levels of analysis matter?
Green A. Ekadi, PhD, MS, Amy Hampton, BS, MSPH, Maria del Pilar Aguinaga, PhD, DLM (ASCP) and Robert S. Levine, MD
3:15pm
Applying community engagement principles to a neighborhood-based survey of adult chronic disease risks: Baseline findings from Community Interventions for Health, New Haven
Amy Carroll-Scott, PhD, MPH, Jeannette R. Ickovics, PhD and Alycia Santilli, MSW
     

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Organized by: Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Endorsed by: Health Administration, Social Work, Healthy Communities for Healthy Aging Forum

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

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