2067.0 Poster Session - Health Disparities

Sunday, October 28, 2012: 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Poster
This poster session highlights interventions designed to identify health disparities, build cultural competence, and empower communities through policy and environmental changes.
Session Objectives: Identify at least three interventions aimed at decreasing health disparities in underserved populations.

Board 1
NYC Taxi Drivers Economic, Stress, and Health Needs Assessment
Walaa Elbedewy, MB,BCh, MPH, Gholamreza Sadeghipour Roodsari, MD, MPH, Andrea Caron, MPH, Asha Persad, MSc,MPH, Smita Gaith and Smiti B. Kapadia, MPH
Board 2
Socioeconomic disparities in preventable hospitalization among adults with diabetes in Taiwan: A multilevel modeling approach
Pei-Ching Chen, PhD, Yue-Chune Lee, DrPH and Raymond Kuo, PhD
Board 3
Taking pictures to take control: Photovoice as a tool to facilitate empowerment among poor and racial/ethnic minority women with HIV/AIDS
Michelle Teti, MPH, DrPH and Diane Binson, PhD
Board 4
Preventing childhood obesity by promoting healthy lifestyles among children and their caregivers in the Osborn community in Detroit: A community-academic partnership
Grace P. Lee, MHS, Grenae Dudley, PhD, Jeff Griffith, BA, Joi Mitchell, BA and Fannie Fonseca-Becker, DrPH
Board 5
Cultural competence experience enhances organizational cultural competence in health-related academic units
Alviony Pangloli, MS, MPH, Betsy Haughton, EdD, RD, LDN and Charles B. Hamilton, DrPH, MPH
  
Board 6
Mobilizing Towards Equitable Community Change: The Role of Youth in Policy and Environmental Change
Cara Chaney, BA
Board 7
Health Equity Committee: A Local Health Department's Effort to Address Health Inequalities
Marshare Penny, MPH, Aaron Gardner, MA, Wendy Betancourt, MPH, Aphrodyi Antoine, MPH, MPA and Diane Ewing, BA, RN
Board 8
Development of a Measure of Discrimination within the Health Care System: Preliminary Findings of Pre-Colonoscopy Patient Surveys
Evelyn King-Marshall, MPH, Barbara Curbow, PhD, Elisa M. Rodriguez, PhD, MS, Tracey E. Barnett, PhD, Amy Dailey, PhD, MPH, Thomas George, MD, Jessica Schumacher, PhD, Emmett Martin, MPH, BA, Shanaz Sultan, MD and Britany Telford, BA

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Organized by: Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Endorsed by: Caucus on Homelessness

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