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

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Community-based health promotion interventions for people with disabilities

Monday, November 4, 2013: 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Oral
Moderator:
Amy Pilley, MPH

12:30pm
Efficacy of a healthmessages peer to peer program for people with intellectual disabilities   
Beth Marks, PhD, RN, Jasmina Sisirak, PhD, MPH and Yen-Ching Chang, PhD
12:45pm
Health benefits of teaching rural people with disabilities to use community resources for health management compared with health education: A randomized trial   
Craig Ravesloot, PhD, Bob Liston, MA, Tracy Boehm, MPH, Tannis Hargrove, MS and Lillie Greiman, MA
     
1:00pm
Outcomes of strength and balance exercise program and a walking program among older adults with intellectual disabilities   
Kelly Hsieh, PhD, James Rimmer, PhD and Sumithra Murthy, MBBS, MPH
1:15pm
An examination of the barriers and facilitators to healthy eating and physical activity for high school students with disabilities within urban and rural communities   
Vijay Vasudevan, PhD, MPH and Yochai Eisenberg, MUPP
     

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

Organized by: Disability
Endorsed by: Aging & Public Health

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

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