4015.0 Health Care Needs of Hard to Reach Populations

Tuesday, November 9, 2010: 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Oral
Because certain populations are more challenging to identify and deliver services to, their health care needs are often poorly understood. This session will examine the importance of health and health seeking behaviors in various hard to reach populations.
Session Objectives: At the end of this session, participants will be better able to Identify six recruitment strategies for enrolling minority participants into community-based research studies. Define 3 methods to enhance policy implementation. Discuss issues and barriers that formerly incarcerated patients with chronic disease face upon return to their communities. Identify the challenges ex-offenders face in meeting their health care needs.
Moderator:
Sandra Liu, PhD, MBA, MS in Preventive Medicine

8:30am
REACH US focus group results for four neighborhoods in the city of Cleveland
Dianne L. Kerr, PhD, MCHES, Amy J. Thompson, PhD, CHES, Manuella Crawley, Jennifer Scofield, MA, CHES and Barb Clint
     
8:45am
Partnering with Community-Based Organizations in Recruiting a Hard-to-Find Population in East Los Angeles
Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck, PhD, MPH, Laura Trejo, MPA, MSG, Jeanne Miranda, PhD, Elizabeth Jimenez and Carol M. Mangione, MD, MSPH
     
9:00am
Social justice for injection drug users: Public health policy implementation
Valerie J. Rose, DrPH, MPH and Glenn Backes, MSW, MPH
        
9:15am
Health Care Needs of Returning Prisoners and How Unmet Health Needs Affects the Reentry Experience and Success in Reintegrating Back into Communities
Lois M. Davis, PhD, Kathryn P. Derose, PhD, MPH, Malcolm V. Williams, MPP, PhD and Eugene Williams III
        
9:30am
From prison to community: An innovative discharge planning program at San Quentin State Prison
Shira Shavit, MD, Oona Appel and Michael Shaw

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

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

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

See more of: Community Health Planning and Policy Development
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