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Ethical considerations for addressing the food insecurity and obesity paradox: Reconceptualizing "vulnerability," "resiliency," and "agency" and the importance of "place" in the praxis of public health interventions
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Learning Areas:
Administer health education strategies, interventions and programsAssessment of individual and community needs for health education
Ethics, professional and legal requirements
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs
Social and behavioral sciences
Learning Objectives:
Discuss the importance of challenging the existing conceptualization of "vulnerable" populations in public health research.
Describe the importance of including "resiliency” and "place" in framing the "vulnerability" of research participants.
Explain the significance of reconceptualizing “person” and “agency” in "vulnerable" populations by including research participants' self-recognition of their coping strategies to address their "vulnerability."
Demonstrate ethical considerations and implications for designing, implementing, and evaluating public health interventions that address the food insecurity and obesity paradox in "vulnerable" populations.
Assess how to transform underlying structures that support the continuation of health disparities in "vulnerable" populations.
Keyword(s): Ethics, Vulnerable Populations
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have been a co-investigator of public health research supported by institutional and federal grants focusing upon chronic disease prevention and health promotion. Among my scientific interests has been the development, implementation, and evaluation of culturally relevant and sensitive public health interventions for vulnerable rural and urban populations.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.