4087.0 Social Determinants of Health: Leveraging Partnerships in Working with Communities

Tuesday, November 9, 2010: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Oral
This session looks at strategies for engaging communities in addressing barriers to health equality. It will explore the impact of racism on social determinants of health.
Session Objectives: At the end of this session, participants will be better able to • Describe how systems science can address social determinants of diabetes. • Define and operationalize “translational research” as it applies to public health and social welfare • Describe different types of Certificate of Need (CON) for health care.
Moderator:
Sameen Farooq, BA/BS

10:30am
A Dynamic Hypothesis for Evaluating Diabetes Health Policies in the Presence of Social Determinants Disease Progression
Georgia N. L. J. Polacek, PhD CHES
     
10:45am
Sparking a Dialogue about the Social Determinants of Health at the Local Level - Small and Large Successes
Karen Keon, MPH, Charlie Fautin, MPH, RN, Ann Zukoski, DrPh, MPh, Melissa Cheyney, PhD, CPM, LDM, Tatiana Dierwechter, MSW and Gretchen Goode, MPH
        
11:00am
Dissemination of Empirically Supported Interventions as a Matter of Social Justice: Using a Public Health Framework to Improve Social Welfare
Stephen McMillin
     
11:15am
Innovative uses of CON as a mechanism for public accountability to make health care delivery function “as a system” at the community level
Bob Griss, MA
        
11:30am
New England Partnership for Health Equity: Community-based approaches for addressing the social determinants of health
Courtney Boen, MPH, Nashira Baril, MPH and Rebekah Gowler, MSW, MPH
     

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

Organized by: Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Endorsed by: HIV/AIDS, Social Work

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

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