5043.0 Translating the Affordable Care Act – What is the Role of Public Health?

Wednesday, October 31, 2012: 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Oral
This session will describe and evaluate the role of the Affordable Care Act in promoting initiatives and public health policies aimed at improving care coordination, addressing health disparities and promoting community health.
Session Objectives: Describe two initiatives of the Affordable Care Act that are focused on addressing health disparities
Moderator:
Heidi Albright, MS, MHA

8:30am
Coalition building to develop policy that addresses racial and ethnic health disparities: HEAA Community Working Group perspectives
Paulo Pontemayor, MPH
     
8:50am
Federal Affordable Care Act in Action: Implementation of Health Homes in New York City
Neil Pessin, PhD and Jessica Fear, MA, LMFT
     
9:10am
Maintaining the relevance of public health within the wake of the Affordable Care Act: How the socio-ecological model might just save us from the medical model of public health
T. Lucas Hollar, PhD
9:30am
Prevention across the Aisle: Reclaiming Prevention as a Nonpartisan Issue
Sana Chehimi, MPH, Ann Whidden, MPH and Tony Dang, BA
     

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

Organized by: Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Endorsed by: Health Administration, Mental Health, Women's Caucus, Men's Health Caucus, Asian Pacific Islander Caucus for Public Health, Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs, Black Caucus of Health Workers, Chiropractic Health Care

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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