3256.1 Poster Session: Policy Options and Systems Strategies for Decreasing Health Access Disparities for Immigrants to US

Monday, November 8, 2010: 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Poster
Organizer:
Anthony M. Sallar, PhD; MPH; MBA

Board 1
Identifying Barriers to Health Care in the Burmese and Bhutanese Refugee Populations of Burlington, Vermont
Megan Malgeri, Brian Costello, William Arscott, Kathryn DiPalma, Alex Folkl, Amanda Miller, Rebecca Purtell, Jon Bourgo, Rodger Kessler, PhD and Jan K. Carney, MD MPH
Board 2
Testing and treating immigrants for lymphatic filariasis in south Florida
Angela Keller, MA, Joanna Drowos, DO, MPH, MBA, Mary Anne Duncan, DVM, F. Arguello, Kim Won, MS, Cynthia Treadwell, RN, MSN, Ninon Desouvre, RN, Alina Alonso, MD, Patrick Lammie, PhD and Els Mathieu, MD, MPH
Board 3
Self–rated Health Status of U.S. Immigrants: Does Language Preference Matter?
Veena Kulkarni, PhD and Sawsan Abdulrahim, PhD
Board 4
Using everyday occupations to bridge the cultural divide: The experiences of immigrant women
Jyothi Gupta, PhD, OTR/L and Catherine Sullivan, PhD, OTR/L
Board 5
Relationship between body image, physical activity and country of origin among Hispanic women in New York City
Ming-Chin Yeh, PhD, Anahi Viladrich, PhD, Nancy Bruning, MPH, Rachael Weiss, MPH, Chang-Yun Lin, PhD, Jane Kelvin and Elizabeth Kelvin, PhD
Board 6
Building Healthy Families: Developing video tools for a multistate nutrition education project for limited resource Hmong families with young children
Lisa Peterson, MPH, Sua Yang, BS, Barbara Sutherland, PhD, Susan Donohue, MA, RD and Patricia Wakimoto, DrPH, RD
Board 7
“A Silent Killer”: How Zambian Immigrants in a Midwestern State Explain Hypertension
Bella Siangonya, Titilayo A. Okoror, PhD, Haslyn E. R. Hunte, PhD, MPH and Rhonda Belue, PhD
Board 8
South Asian, Middle Eastern, and African Immigrant Youth: Acculturation and Well-being
M. Taqi Tirmazi, PhD, Kathy sanders-Phillips, PhD and Altaf Husain, PhD
Board 9
Healthy-home Environment: Asthma Awareness for Refugees in South-central Kentucky
Rasmi Nair, MBBS, Sohini Dhar, BDS, MPH, Emmanuel A. Iyiegbuniwe, PhD and Stephen Nagy, PhD
Board 10
Caring for refugees: Measuring cultural competence in nursing students
Andrea Addington, RN, EdD

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

Organized by: Caucus on Refugee and Immigrant Health
Endorsed by: Social Work

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