5059.0 Community Based Primary Health Care

Wednesday, November 2, 2011: 8:30 AM
Oral
This session provides an overvew of CBPHC in the international setting.
Session Objectives: Describe a variety of community based PHC interventions and assess their significance in the IH setting
Moderator:
Paul Freeman, DrPH MBBS MHP

8:30 AM
Hypertension in rural central India; a study of prevalence and potential risk factors
Sophie Galson, BS, Hari Shankar, Shobha Arole, MBBS, DCBHD and Ramin Asgary, MD, MPH
     
8:48 AM
Improving maternal, newborn, and child survival: A novel training package among frontline health workers in Southern Sudan
Brett Nelson, MD, MPH, DTM&H, Maya Fehling, MD, Melody Eckardt, MD, MPH, Roy Ahn, MPH, ScD, Maggie Tiernan, Chitra Akileswaran and Thomas F. Burke, MD
     
9:06 AM
Where there are no pharmacists
Sarah Andersson, B Phar , MPH and Beverley Snell, B Pharm, MPH
     
9:24 AM
Empowered communities continue to identify new priorities: The Jamkhed, India, experience
Shobha Arole, MBBS, DCBHD, Yosef Pandit, DCBHD and Connie Gates, MPH
     
9:42 AM
Evaluation of Fiscally Sustainable Community Hypertension Treatment Group in Rural Honduras
Sheridan Reiger, MD/MPHc, Sarah Zelek, MPHc, Robin Bigelow, BSc, James Logerfo, MD MPH FACP, Hector Lopez-Oqueli, MD, M. Jane Mohler, RN, MPH, PhD and Jeffrey R. Harris, MD MPH MBA
     

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Organized by: International Health
Endorsed by: Asian Pacific Islander Caucus for Public Health, Community Health Workers

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