4409.0 Culture and Language: Best Practices in Health Education and Promotion

Tuesday, November 1, 2011: 4:30 PM
Oral
Health education, promotion, and communication activities are most salient to the intended recipients when they are culturally and linguistically appropriate. This session's presentations demonstrate best practices and strategies to improve the health and lives of diverse at-risk populations through culturally and linguistically tailored approaches.
Session Objectives: 1. Discuss the importance of culturally and linguistically tailored approaches in health education, promotion, and communication. 2. Describe best practices.
Moderator:
Stephen Bouikidis, BA

4:30 PM
Mujeres En Solidaridad Apoyandose (MESA): Addressing Mental Health for Women in a Migratory Sending Community in Mexico
Sandra Clark, MD, Heather B. Edelblute, MPH, Lilli Mann, MPH candidate, Kathryn McKenney, Jason Bischof, Laura Ziemer, MSW and Sheryl Zimmerman, PhD
4:45 PM
National CLAS Standards Enhancement Initiative: An HHS Office of Minority Health Initiative to Advance Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Health Services
Guadalupe Pacheco, MSW and C. Godfrey Jacobs
     
5:00 PM
En Familia: An intergenerational approach to improving health literacy among and delivering health education to Latino families
Kristen D. Holtz, PhD, Eric C. Twombly, PhD and Louise C. Palmer, MA
5:15 PM
Heart of a Woman Project: Utilizing salon hairstylists as lay health advocates to deliver culturally tailored heart health messages in their community
Marilyn A. Fraser-White, MD, Lakeisha Lubin, Soņia Banks, PhD, Ruth C. Browne, ScD, Joseph Ravenell, MD, Calpurnyia Roberts, PhD, Shonnette Campbell, Allana Rollins and Nicole Primus, MPA
     
5:30 PM
University/Media partnership aims to improve fruit and vegetable consumption in low-income families via culturally appropriate and tailored interactive nutrition education workshops held at Head Start and School Readiness preschool sites in Connecticut
Tina Fox Dugdale, MS RD RN CD-N, Heather Harrington, MS RD CD-N and Valerie Duffy, PhD RD
     

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

Organized by: Public Health Education and Health Promotion
Endorsed by: Alternative and Complementary Health Practices, American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Caucus, Asian Pacific Islander Caucus for Public Health, Community Health Workers

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)

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