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

3022.0
Implementation strategies for adapting global tools, knowledge, and practices in local communities

Monday, November 4, 2013: 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Oral
Explore health policy decision-making and motivations for policy adoption in a tribal school setting. Learn how an organization consults with a Health Promoter Network in rural, low-income communities to develop local expertise and leadership for communities to enact their own health and development agendas. Explore how pairing microfinance and program planning training can increase community participation and ownership over local development efforts. Examine how health visioning engages tribal leadership in community health assessment. Compare interventions for implementing evidence based practices in rural local and global setting.
Session Objectives: Describe the characteristics of two programs that build organizational and community capacity. Explain the role of school health policy research in a tribal school community. Explain the process of establishing a strategic vision for community health assessment (CHA) and health planning
Moderator:
Mary Elise Papke, DrPH

8:30am
Microgrant empowerment initiative: Pairing microfinance and program planning training to increase community participation and ownership over local development efforts   
Sarah Nunn, MSN, Kris Coontz, MPH, MD, Noah Hawthorne, MPH, MD, José Albany Chavarría Picado, Paola Ferst, MS and Ivania del Carmen Escobar Sanchez
8:50am
Health visioning in American Indian communities: A strategy for engaging tribal leadership in community health assessment   
Nathania T. Tsosie, MCRP, Norman Cooeyate, Micah Clark, BS and Kyle Smith
     
9:10am
Improving rural health at home and abroad: A comparison of implementation efforts in the rural NC and rural Honduras   
Tina Tseng, PhD, MSPH, Raymond Tseng, DDS, PhD, Wesley Rich, PhD and David Tillman, PhD, MEd, MA, CPH
     
9:30am
Implementation strategies for adapting global tools, knowledge, and practices in local communities   
Kim Ethier Stover, MA, Solomon Tesfaye, MD, MPH, Aynalem Hailemichael, MPH, Degree in Nursing and Midwifery, Hajira Mohammed, Msc, Danika Barry, MPH, Lamesgin Alamineh, MPH, Abebe Teshome, Degree in Nursing and Lynn Sibley, PhD, CNM, FACNM, FAAN
     

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

Organized by: Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Endorsed by: Oral Health, Socialist Caucus, American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Caucus, Asian Pacific Islander Caucus for Public Health

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

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