5040.0 Evidence-based and Community Transformation Initiatives to Implement Sustainable Healthy Lifestyle Changes

Wednesday, October 31, 2012: 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Oral
This session will provide strategies, challenges and lessons learned from initiatives aimed at addressing health disparities and promoting health equity in schools, public housing and underserved communities.
Session Objectives: Describe examples of public health policies that can be implemented in a community to promote healthy nutrition and physical activity
Moderator:
Stanley Li

8:30am
ChildObesity180: An innovative, multi-sector, evidence-based approach to reversing the trend in childhood obesity
Julia Bloom Herzog, MPH, Peter R. Dolan, MBA, Molly B. Newman, MS, RD, Miriam E. Nelson, PhD, Shanti Sharma, PhD, Sarah A. Smith, MBA, Nathaniel Whitman, MA and Christina D. Economos, PhD
     
8:50am
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) partner to improve the health of public housing residents
Jovonni R. Spinner, MPH, Len Clay, MCP and Edward Donnell Ivy, MD/MPH
     
9:10am
Feasibility of Implementing Evidence-Based, Community-Wide Initiatives: Lessons Learned from a Multi-Component Obesity Prevention Initiative
Melissa Tibbits, PhD, Hongmei Wang, PhD and Mary Balluff, MS, RD
     
9:30am
Sustainability of healthy lifestyle changes in Type 2 diabetes self-management: Developing initiatives across the lifespan
Gauri Bhattacharya, DSW, ACSW, LCSW
     

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

Organized by: Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Endorsed by: Mental Health, Chiropractic Health Care

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

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