3401.0 Poster Session 1 : Addressing Obesity, Diabetes, and Cardiovascular Disease in Latino Communities

Monday, October 31, 2011: 4:30 PM
Poster

Board 1
Salud Para Su Carozón-(Health for Your Heart): A promotore led community health program to reduce heart disease in Latino communities
Jovonni R. Spinner, MPH, Matilde Alvardao and Otila Garcia
Board 2
An obesity management intervention for Hispanic children in a pediatric clinic: Preliminary outcomes analysis
Dorothy Long Parma, MD, Deborah Parra-Medina, PhD, MPH, Cynthia Mojica, PhD, MPH and Awilda Ramos, MD, FAAP
Board 3
Youth empowered Nutrition Education in a San Francisco High School
Daniel P. Perales, DrPh MPH
Board 4
Promotoras changing communities: Diabetes prevention and control
Kirk Smith, MD PhD, Belinda M. Reininger, DrPH, Christine Arcari, PhD, MPH, Jennifer L. Gay, PhD, Lisa Mitchell-Bennett, MA, Jacquelyn Siller, Martha Martinez, MSN RN CS and Phylis Peters
Board 5
Longitudinal changes in overweight and obesity in Mexican American adolescents: The role of sociodemographic and behavioral characteristics
Larkin L. Strong, PhD, MPH, Melissa L. Bondy, PhD, Michele R. Forman, PhD, Margaret R. Spitz, MD and Anna V. Wilkinson, PhD
Board 6
Promoting Healthy Environments for Latino Children Living in Border Colonias: Community Perspectives of Needed Policy Actions
Nelda Mier, PhD, David Irizarry, BS, MPH-C, Matthew Lee Smith, PhD, MPH, CHES, Chanam Lee, PhD, MLA, Xiaohui Wang, PhD, Laura Treviño, Maria C. Alen, MD, Marcia G. Ory, PhD, MPH and Elias Avila-Rodriguez, PhD
Board 7
Addressing diabetes health disparities of Latinos in New York City through faith-based interventions
Jaime Gutierrez, MPH, Kandice Jones, MPH, Carlos Devia, MA, Charmaine Ruddock, MS, Maxine Golub, MPH, Joyce Davis, MDiv (candidate), Robert Foley, DMin, DD, Rosa Rosen, JD, Ellenrita Purcaro, BA, Toni Carter, RN, Evalina Irish-Spencer, MS, RD, Brenda Barretto, CMA, Linda Weiss, PhD and Neil Calman, MD
Board 8
What factors influence the Nutritional Attitudes and Behaviors of Mexican Women with Type 2 Diabetes?
Mirna Troncoso, MPH
Board 9
Building capacity to measure the effectiveness of community health care organization's obesity prevention interventions among Latino children
Fannie Fonseca-Becker, DrPH
Board 10
A comparison of the dietary habits of adults in Puebla, Mexico to those of Mexican immigrants in the Bluegrass Region of Kentucky
Christie Green, MPHC, Phyllis A. Bryden, DrPH, MSPH, CPH, RN and Michelyn W. Bhandari, DrPH, MPH,CPH

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

Organized by: Latino Caucus
Endorsed by: American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Caucus

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