141st APHA Annual Meeting

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Addressing Health Disparities through Health Promotion Initiatives

Tuesday, November 5, 2013: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Oral
The purpose of this session is to highlight successful strategies and intervention programs aimed to reduce health disparities among at-risk populations.
Session Objectives: Describe barriers to engaging in health behaviors in at-risk populations. Discuss culturally appropriate strategies and interventions to reduce health disparities

4:30pm
Tattoo parties: Self reported HCV risk factors among members of a Philadelphia neighborhood
Stacey Trooskin, MD, PhD, Sophie Feller, B.A., Kathleen Kozeniewski, MSW, LCSW, Annajane Yolken, Julia Harvey, Najia Luqman, MPH, Danielle Parks, MPH, LaDonna Smith, Ta-Wanda Preston, Gladys Thomas, MSW, MBA, Sharon Parker, PhD MSW MS and Amy Nunn, ScD
4:50pm
Step forward: A collaborative effort to reduce health disparities impacting Latino youth
Claudia Powell, Associate Social Scientist Researcher and Aimee Graves, Senior Director of Child and Family Services
5:30pm
"Sorry for laughing, but it's scary": Humor and silence as cultural codes among AI/AN patients discussing colorectal cancer
Emily R. Van Dyke, MD, MPH, Deborah R. Bassett, Ph.D., Shin-Ping Tu, MD MPH and The Collaborative to Improve Native Cancer Outcomes

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

Organized by: Public Health Education and Health Promotion