CALL FOR ABSTRACTS — 142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition
Public Health Nursing
Healthography: How Where you Live Affects Your Health and Well-being
Submission Deadline: Thursday, February 13, 2014
The Public Health Nursing Section invites scientific abstracts for all relevant topics and the following in particular for 2014:
Impact of family violence on child, adolescent and young adult health
Interdisciplinary perspectives on family violence prevention
A Healthography Approach To Understanding and Addressing Chronic Disease Disparities
Abortion at the state level
Abortion in the US
Academic / practice partnerships and health administration training
Access to HIV/AIDS Care
Accreditation and quality improvement in public health administration
Addressing Vulnerable Populations Using Public Health Law
Administrative approaches to healthcare improvement
Administrative models for improving equity in access, quality, and outcomes - I
Adolescent & Young Adult Health: Youth Empowerment in their Health The Adolescent and Young Adult Health Committee is seeking abstracts related to this year’s theme: “Healthography: How Where You Live Affects Your Health and Well-Being.” Topics of particular interest to the Committee include but are not limited to:
How adolescents and young adults (AYA) define and interact with their neighborhoods and communities, including perceived and (actual) barriers and enablers to health and well-being. Consider the role of place in the following:
Barriers:
› The impact of traumatic events (e.g., natural disasters, war, violence) and exemplary preparedness and proactive responses involving AYA
› Gun violence, including rehabilitation for incarcerated juvenile offenders
› Health disparities related to age, gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation and identity, and socioeconomic status in the United States and abroad, as they relate to AYA
› How access to care and interventions affect AYA, with considerations for mental, developmental, physical, and other special healthcare needs
› Implications of the Affordable Care Act for AYA
› Approaches to school-based health
Enablers:
› Youth empowerment and positive development through health-focused community, national, and international programs
› Health career pipeline programs for practice and research; public-health-oriented leadership development and mentoring programs for youth in community settings
› Adolescents and young adults (AYA) as health-promoting assets/change agents in their schools and communities
› Social supports available to AYA within and outside their communities
Research:
› Innovative approaches to conducting research with AYA, including longitudinal, mixed methods, and Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR)
› Translation of AYA population-based research to individual- and family-centered care and community-based interventions
Advancing Public Health: Innovations Solutions in Health Care Informatics
African American Mental Health: Strategies and Interventions that Address Mental Illness, Mental Health and Historical Trauma
Beyond the bars: Addressing social determinants for incarceration and re-entry programs
Breastfeeding Forum Oral Session 1 - A systems approach to supporting breastfeeding We seek abstracts related to methodological issues and challenges encountered when conducting breastfeeding research, and particularly seek abstracts that offer solutions or potential options to overcome them. Examples of issues might include, but are not limited to: measurement of "breastfeeding," conducting and analyzing results of non-randomized studies, ensuring effective dissemination of research findings to applicable audiences, etc.
Breastfeeding Forum Oral Session 2-Employment and Breastfeeding We seek abstracts related to the use of donor milk and/or mother's own expressed milk. Abstracts related to this topic may address a variety of issues, such as the quality/content of expressed mother's/donor milk, advantages or disadvantages to using these milks, evidence for use of these milks when direct breastfeeding is not possible, challenges to using these milks (e.g., when human milk substitutes such as infant formula are readily available), use of human milk fortifiers, etc., human milk bank operations and procedures, etc.
Building Partnerships to Build Healthy Communities: Working with Local Legislators
CHW programs & healthography: how where you live affects your health and well-being This session topic seeks abstracts that relate to this year's meeting theme
Cancer and Chronic Diseases in our Communities: Investigating the Use of Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Health Practices
Challenge to public health policy of new streams of “libertarianism”
Chemicals and occupational health risks
Child survival & child health
Children's vision and eye care needs
Consumer Empowerment through the Use of Health IT
Define it! Design it! Do it! A Community Action Model to Address Disparities, Promote Health, and Create Positive Social Experiences in Diverse Communities
Displaced populations & refugee health
Disproportionate Minority Contact (DMC): Who are we jailing? The phenomenon of Black and Latino youth coming in contact with the criminal justice system.
Eathing healthy for participants in Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) programs.
Emerging issues in women's health: high-risk pregnancies, media portrayals, and sexual satisfaction
Enhancing Access to Services for Veterans and their Families
Ethics of setting policy in the face of technological developments
Evidence Based Quality of Care Elements
Examining the Landscape of Rural Physical Activity
Faith-Based Approaches in Addressing Public Health Challenges
Faith-Based Organizations Geographical Impact on Health
Family Violence Program Evaluation
Farm to fork: Community food systems approaches to healthy food access and availibility
Food Availability: What We Are Eating and Why
Food is a family affair
From research to action: Translation of CBPR into practice and/or policy change
Getting the drop on cancer: Knowledge and perceptions around cancer screening and prevention
Global Health Informatics; Building Capacity for Disease Surveillance
Global perspectives and approaches to Asian and Pacific Islander health
Cyberspace as a source of health information/health action
Social media and tele-health approaches to health promotion
Successful inter-sectoral collaborations in public health (partnerships between urban designers and city departments of health or between industry and local public health agencies)
Zipcode v. genetic code: influence of social, behavioral, environmental and biological determinants of health on individual, community, and population, health
Greg Alexander Outstanding Students Papers Session: Parental Experiences, Preterm Birth, Asthma and Reproductive Health Services The Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Section, in collaboration with the Association of Teachers of Maternal and Child Health, seeks student research papers on a variety of topics related to MCH problems, policy, and programs. The top five papers will be presented in the Greg Alexander Outstanding Student Papers session on Monday morning. These top five student authors will be honored at the Martha May Eliot Award Luncheon, also on Monday. Accepted papers not selected for the special session will be included in a student poster session or, as appropriate, in other sessions. Submissions should conform to the required APHA structure. First authors must be APHA student members who are working towards a degree at the time of submission. Advisors may be listed as coauthors; however, the student is expected to do the writing, analysis, and presentation. A partial stipend may be available, contingent upon availability of funds.
HIV Treatment: Successes and Challenges
Health Impact Assessment
Health Impact of Food Access
Health literacy and patient education
Health of Latino youth
Health systems improvement
Health, prevention, and wellness Spinal disorders; Nerve and musculoskeletal injuries; Physical and mental stress
Healthography - The Impact of Place
Healthography that women navigate to access care: From a special populations perspective
Healthography: Community Wellness (Water Fluoridation and other Community Approaches)
Healthography: How Where You Live Affects Your Health and Well-Being
Healthography: How Where you Live Affects Your Health and Well-Being Submissions that align with the conference theme including multilevel modeling, neighborhood factors, built environment, social determinants of health and other contextual factors
Human factors and ergonomics
Identifying and addressing risk of occupational diseases
Immigration status and enforcement, Affordable Care Act (ACA) implementation and issues on access to healthcare among refugees and immigrant populations
Implementing public health ethics
Individual, Agency & Policy Factors for Providing Substance Abuse Treatment in the Era of Health Reform
Infant & Child Health: Community Factors related to Obesity In keeping with the annual APHA meeting theme, which focuses on how where you live affects your health and well-being, abstracts are sought that pertain to the effects of context on the health of infants and children. Research that examines the effects of interventions at the level of the individual family, the neighborhood, and the larger community to promote children’s health, development and well-being is of particular interest. More generally, the committee also welcomes abstracts on central themes related to infant and child health and health disparities including but not limited to preconception health and health care, preterm birth, infant and child morbidity and mortality, fetal alcohol syndrome, birth defects research and surveillance, newborn hearing and metabolic screening, developmental screening, autism and developmental disabilities, neurobehavioral and mental health, parenting, and child development.
Infant & Child Health: Vulnerable Children & Adverse Life Experiences
Infectious Disease Epidemiology - Findings and Perspectives
Innovations and Evaluation Round Table
Innovations in Maternity Services The theme of the 2014 APHA Annual Meeting is “Healthography: How where you live affects your health and well-being.” The everyday problems facing childbearing women and their families are made worse by the lack of access to care and the concerns about quality services. The shortages of maternity care providers in many communities make these problems almost unsolvable. Increasing malpractice insurance costs negatively impacts the availability of care. The actual cost of pregnancy and delivery to individual families is a real crisis at this time.
For this year’s program, the Innovations in Maternity Services committee is seeking papers on these issues of concern such as: Maternal Mortality and Morbidity related to current childbearing practices, cesarean sections, vaginal birth after cesarean(VBAC), epidurals, induction, provider shortages, increasing malpractice cost, consumer insurance costs, decreasing insurance coverage, decreases in consumer options, cost saving innovations, and midwives.
The committee welcomes research descriptions of programs or policy which encourage or limit women and childbearing families’ choices for birth options, innovative models of care. The programs to be showcased should demonstrate improving maternal outcomes, new insurance strategies, support for providers, outreach clinics, creative solutions to access to care including, midwifery care, out of hospital birth settings, and labor support or doulas. Research or descriptions of programs, which address these issues on the local, state or nation levels, are encouraged.
Innovative public health initiatives that promote refugee and immigrant health
Innovative use of technology for injury prevention, disaster and emergency response
Interdisciplinary Approaches Among CHWs and Public Health Entities (a collaborative session by the CHW and PHEHP sections)
International health & human rights
International/Global Health Student Presentations
Law, Policy, and Practice to Promote Nutrition and Wellness
Linking Non-traditional Partners to Address Chemicals and Public Health
Making the Case: Economic Value of Environmental Health
Malaria & vector-borne diseases
Mapping the landscape of equity and system change in cancer care: The ACCURE project
Medical and Behavioral Health Care for Veterans Who Are Homeless
Mental health and substance use among LGBT communities
Menthol Mayhem: Menthol Risks and Opportunities for Local Action
Million Hearts and hypertension control: Using a multi-state learning collaborative model to address systems approach to change
Monitoring, evaluation, and quality improvement
Motor vehicle injury and road safety
National HIV/AIDS Strategy: Implementation and Lessons Learned
Nutrition education and health-care linkages to chronic disease and obesity prevention
Obesity As A Public Health Problem For People With Disabilities
One health
Overweight and obesity prevention and interventions in school
PHN Education Bridging the Divide
PHN/ACHNE Board Meeting
Paternal Involvement in Pregnancy Outcomes Despite the fact that men are important to maternal and child health (MCH), men have not played a significant role in family planning, pregnancy or childbirth, nor have they had a place in reproductive health initiatives. A large body of research exists on a father’s influence on child health and development, but little is known regarding the role of the expectant father in pregnancy outcomes. There is a great need to develop evidence-based strategies to improve paternal involvement before, during, and between pregnancies, particularly in communities where paternal involvement has traditionally been low and pregnancy outcomes have been poor. Abstracts related to this year’s conference theme might include:
Family planning and reproductive health initiatives targeted to males;
Best and promising practices to enhance paternal involvement in MCH;
Barriers to paternal involvement in research, policy and practice;
Preconception health care programs specific to males;
Innovative approaches to research, policy and clinical practice on paternal involvement in pregnancy;
A lifecourse perspective of paternal involvement in pregnancy outcomes;
Strategies to raise public awareness for the need to include men in MCH.
Peace to end all war
Physical education and physical activity in school
Population Health and Quality Improvement
Pregnancy and pregnancy prevention among adolescents and young adults
Prescription Drug Abuse - Identifying Special Populations for Targeted Interventions
Public Health Nursing Education In and Outside the Box
Public Health Nursing Education and Student Posters
Public Health Nursing Global Health Posters
Public Health Nursing Luncheon - The Place to Be
Public Health Nursing Research
Public Health Nursing Research Posters
Public Health Nursing Section Business Meeting
Public Health Nursing Section Business Meeting
Public Health Nursing Section Business Meeting
Public Health Nursing Section Business Meeting
Public Health Nursing Section Business Meeting
Public Health Nursing Students and Education Round Table
Public Health Nursing Workforce Posters
Public Health Nursing Workforce: New Approaches
Public Health Nursing and Domestic Violence
Public Health Nursing and Policymaking
Public Health Nursing: Environmental Health
Public Health Nursing: Global Health II
Public Health Nursing: State of the Science Update II
Public Health Preparedness, Response, & Recovery: Lessons Learned Through Leadership & Collaboration
Public health nursing workforce
Public health systems and services research (PHSSR) - I
Public health systems and services research (PHSSR) - II
Public health, peace and conflict in the Middle East
Quad Council Roundtable on Taking Action for the Future of Public Health Nursing
Quad Council Social Hour
Quality improvement in public health administration
Reducing Health Disparities and Promoting Health Equity
Research in Acupuncture
Research in Integrative, Complementary and Traditional Health Practices
Resiliency among LGBT people
Resistance to war and building peace
Revealing important health patterns in Asian and Pacific Islander populations using disaggregated data
Novel sampling approaches to enumerating under-represented API populations
Epidemiological studies powered to estimate disease prevalence in multiple API populations
School Health Services (primary prevention, chronic disease management, electronic records and measurement, etc)
Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment Within Primary Care
Screening, Diagnostic and Intervention Services For People Who Are Deaf And Hard Of Hearing
Self-determination: Does my zip code determine my outcome?
Sexual Risk Reduction Abstracts that focus on interventions that promote behaviors that prevent or reduce the risk of pregnancy, HIV, and other sexually transmitted infections/disease. Priority will be given to abstracts that discuss outcomes/results.
Sexy Topics in HIV Prevention
Silence, secrets and survival: Sexual assault and intimate partner violence
Smoke-free Begins At Home(s): Partners and Pitfalls in Multi-unit Housing
Social Justice Now
Special and vulnerable populations: Children, neonates, and those with rare diseases
Speed Dating with Critical Thinkers in ATOD: Come Meet Leaders in the Field of Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs
State & Local Changes in Marijuana Laws, Use and Access
State of Public Health Nursing Science
State of the Science Update
Statistical methods and applications in community health
Strategies and tools to reduce the negative effects of violence on children and families
Strengthening Communities Through Participatory Research
Student Topics in Healthography Presentations
Suicide prevention
Targeted Evaluation of Youth Experiencing Homelessness
Technology-Driven Asthma Data Perspectives: Municipal, Clinical, Environmental, and Public Health
The Health Impacts of Chemicals in Our Environment
The Impact Of Being A Caregiver
The Relationship Between The Built Environment And Inclusion For People With Disabilities
The Role of Parks in Healthography: The Unique Contribution of Our Nation’s Greatest Resource to Health and Wellbeing
The Scholarship of Community-Based Participatory Research
The impact and the effects of Technology on health
Tobacco Use and Treatment in the Oncology Setting (A Collaborative Session with the Cancer Forum and Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs Section)
Tools and Assessments for Better Understanding Climate Change
Training Youth to Promote Community Health
Trauma and Mental Health: Clinical Interventions and Community Strategies
Understanding and Building Resilience for Healthier Communities
Using GIS and location analysis in injury
Using Telehealth To Improve Population Health In Rural Communities
Victimization of LGBT people
Violence Prevention: Risk factors and interventions to prevent violence against adolescents and women Violence Prevention in Families and Communities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Family Violence Prevention. Preventing family and community violence is essential to the promotion of wellness across the lifespan. Many disciplines contribute critical knowledge and perspectives to the use of theory, data, interventions, evaluation approaches, and policy development to family violence prevention and intervention efforts. By exploring these various efforts we can better prevent all forms of family violence across the lifespan, including child maltreatment, partner abuse, elder mistreatment, dating violence, sibling abuse, and the relationships of these individual areas with each other. Submissions in any of these areas are of interest, and submissions exploring primary prevention programs are of particular interest.
Violence in the workplace
Vision and Aging (organized by Vision Care and Aging and Public Health)
Wasted food, unnecessary environmental impacts- Place-based and other approaches to reducing the 40% of US food that goes to rot
Weight stigma & health at every size: Evaluating alternative perspectives on obesity and health
When the bough breaks: The impact of place, race and education on birth outcomes
Women and HIV/AIDS
Women's health and social vulnerability: substance use, incarceration, and immigration
Workers with unique H&S situations
Workforce development, professional development, and human resources management in health administration - I
Young African American: Substance Abuse and HIV - Prevention and Life
“Ethical, Social & Community implications of Genomics: Where we are? Where are we going?”
“What Works” in Mental Health Prevention and Early Intervention: California's Comprehensive Effort to Improve Student Mental Health, Prevent Suicides, and Reduce the Stigma of Mental Illness
Abstracts may be submitted for oral, poster, roundtable, or full session proposals, although the Program Planners may reassign requested formats to make best use of the Section’s limited sessions. Presenting authors must be APHA members and register for attendance at the Annual Meeting.
Abstract Format
Limit abstracts to 250 words, using one of two formats:
1) Research:
Background
Methods
Results
Conclusions
2) “Lessons-learned:”
Background/ Issue
Description
Lessons Learned
Implications/recommendations
Full Session Proposals:
Full Sessions are 90 minutes long and require a 1-2 page overview of the session (in addition to 3-5 individual submitted abstracts, below). For the overview please include:
Session title
Name and email address of the contact person for the Session
Name of the Session moderator and email address (if different from #2)
Session rationale and relevance (in brief)
Abstract Titles and contact information for each presenter
Submit 3-5 individual abstracts for full session proposals through the regular submission process. Indicate to which full session they belong by either including the full session in the abstract title or in the "comments to organizers" box (for example: “State of The Science Update: Effective Counselling Methods for Vaccine Withholders.”)
Review Criteria
All abstracts will be blind-reviewed by three reviewers using the following criteria:
Importance of the issue
Innovative methods
Soundness of the science
Substantive nature of the work
Compelling conclusions
Continuing Education Credit for Sessions
For a session to be eligible for Continuing Education Credit, each abstract must:
1) be free of trade and/or commercial product names
2) have at least one measurable objective written in action terms
3) include a signed Conflict of Interest (Disclosure) form with a relevant Qualification Statement.
For continuing education questions, please contact Annette Ferebee at annette.ferebee@apha.
Ready?
Program Planner Contact Information:
Maria Gilson deValpine, RN MSN PhD Department of Nursing James Madison University MSC 4305 Harrisonburg, VA 22807 Phone: (503) 239-6081 devalpmg@jmu.edu
