4387.0 Community-Based Participatory Projects that Increase Underrepresented Voices

Tuesday, October 30, 2012: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Oral
This session will provide useful tools for motivating organizational change, implementing successful health policies and addressing health disparities through community-based participatory projects.
Session Objectives: Discuss examples of collaborative interventions to address health disparities in underserved communities
Moderator:
Deeksha Ahuja

4:30pm
Men on the Move: A participatory approach to enhancing nutrition access and information within a rural African American community
Elizabeth A. Baker, PhD, MPH, Ellen Barnidge, PhD, MPH, Marjorie Sawicki, MS, RD, LDN, Freda Motton, MPH, Frank Rose, Lloyd McGee, Kim Shackelford, Danielle Kusner and Julie Gary, MPH
4:50pm
Pledge the practice, pass the policy: Building organizational change to reduce early childhood obesity
Jennifer Balogh, MSW, MPH and Diane Dooley, MD
     
  
5:10pm
Addressing disparities beyond race/ethnicity - low SES, LGBT, rural and urban, and persons with disabilities: Minority health programs can play a key role
Mari Gasiorowicz, MA, Fabienne Ouapou-Lena, MD, Margaret Schmelzer, RN, MPH and Patricia Guhleman, MS
     
5:30pm
Moving from community health assessment and planning to action: Targeting disparities through comprehensive, community-based strategies
Shannon Laing, MSW
     

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

Organized by: Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Endorsed by: Ethics SPIG, International Health, Socialist Caucus, Men's Health Caucus

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

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