3415.0 Public health practice: Building capacity to achieve health equity

Monday, November 8, 2010: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Oral
Health equity remains an illusive goal of social justice. With shrinking resources and growing and increasingly diverse population who are falling through the health system's gaps, public health practioners are faced with the daunting challenge of reducing health inequities. This session features presentations that address ways in which public health practices are building capacity to address this issue.
Session Objectives: 1. Discuss health equity as a social justice issue. 2. Identify ways to build capacity in state and local public health systems and organizations to promote health equity. 3. Describe challenges faced in achieving health equity.
Moderator:
Bojana Beric, PhD, MD, CHES

4:30pm
Assessment of skills needed by public health professionals to achieve health equity
Louise Square, BA and Kati Moseley, MPH
        
4:45pm
Health equity and prevention primer: Advancing public health advocacy to eliminate inequities in health and safety
Virginia Lee, MPH, CHES, Manal Aboelata, MS and Omar Sahak
     
5:00pm
Advocacy is part of the job description
Joan Buchar, PhD, CHES
     
5:15pm
Using the National Public Health Performance Standards program to define the role of the local health department
Jeffrey Kuhr, PhD, Ian Newman, PhD and David Corbin, PhD, FASHA
     
5:30pm
Capacity-building to promote racial and ethnic health equity
Diane Gaspard, RD, MA and Jacqueline Tran, MPH
        

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

Organized by: Public Health Education and Health Promotion
Endorsed by: Social Work

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

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