5168.0 Social Determinants of Health: Evidence-based Initiatives & Policies to Create Sustainable Change and Healthy Communities

Wednesday, October 31, 2012: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Oral
This session will describe the successes, challenges and lessons learned from policy, systems and environmental changes to address health disparities and improve the health of underserved communities.
Session Objectives: Describe three strategies used to improve the health of underserved communities
Moderator:
Slande Celeste, MPH, MCHES

12:30pm
Healthcare in very rural and frontier communities: Balancing equity, effectiveness and efficiency
Susan Wilger, BS, MPAff
     
  
12:50pm
Weaving equity into local public health planning and practice through Communities Putting Prevention to Work
Alisa R. Haushalter, DNP, RN and Celia Larson, PhD
     
  
1:10pm
Reaching and Impacting Underserved Youth and Adults in Impoverished and Underserved Communities and Schools of Independence County, Arkansas
Taniesha Richardson, MPH, Susi Epperson and Al Bavon, PhD
     
1:30pm
Making Sense of the Built Environment for Local Communities: The Healthy Community Action Guide
Gary M. Najarian, MSW
     

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

Organized by: Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Endorsed by: International Health, Mental Health, Socialist Caucus, Women's Caucus, Black Caucus of Health Workers, Caucus on Homelessness, Chiropractic Health Care

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

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