141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Recorded Annual Meeting Presentations (RAMP) are now available for purchase.
Only $90 for presenters, $140 for registered attendees and $200 for non-attendees.

Online Program

295813
Breaking Barriers: From Educational Inequalities to Graduation


Monday, November 4, 2013 : 11:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.

Ivory Toldson, PhD, Howard University, Washington, DC
An overview of the conditions of race, poverty and gender that contribute to education inequalities. The presentation will also provide insight to resilience attributes that support graduation.

Learning Areas:

Diversity and culture
Other professions or practice related to public health
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs
Public health or related organizational policy, standards, or other guidelines
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health

Learning Objectives:
Differentiate the risk and resilience factors that impede or support graduation, particularly for black boys.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: tba
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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