141st APHA Annual Meeting

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Culture and Language: Best Practices in Health Education and Promotion

Wednesday, November 6, 2013: 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Oral
• The purpose of this session is share strategies in making research outcomes actionable and culturally appropriate. The translation of successful outcomes to practice and the success and sustainability of successful practices are dependent upon how the message is packaged, received and interpreted.
Session Objectives: Describe and compare strategies for linguistic and culturally appropriate health promotion interventions. Identify methods to make outcomes actionable.

8:30am
Improving pediatric asthma outcomes among immigrant communities in post-Katrina new orleans
Stacey Denham, MSW, MPH, AE-C, Kristi Isaac Rapp, PharmD, AE-C, Leonard Jack, PhD, Msc, Candice Wilson, MPH, Margaret Sanders, MSEd, AE-C, Doryne Sunda-Meya, BS, Alfreda Porter, Pamela Dixon, Nancy Morris, PhD and Floyd Malveaux, MD, PhD
8:50am
Strategies to reach and implement the vision of health equity (STRIVE) project: Adapting and culturally tailoring evidence-based strategies for Asian americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islander communities
Simona Kwon, DrPH, MPH, Ed Tepporn, Shilpa Patel, MPH, Pedro Arista, MPH, Catlin Rideout, MPH, Kathy Ko Chin, MS, Nadia Islam, PhD, Smiti B. Kapadia, MPH, Laura Wyatt, MPH and Chau Trinh-Shevrin, DrPH
9:30am
Overcoming language barriers in virtual dental home demonstration project sites
Michelle Rosaschi, MPH(c), Maureen Harrington, MPH, Jesse Harrison Noonan, Paul Glassman, DDS, MA, MBA and Maysa Namakian, MPH

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

Organized by: Public Health Education and Health Promotion