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Issues in Health Literacy and Health Disparities (organized by HCWG)

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Sunday, November 16, 2014: 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Poster

Board 1
Using grades to effectively communicate health and health disparity in Wisconsin
Anne Roubal, MS and Bridget Catlin, PhD
Board 2
Race and Chronicity of Disease Affecting Medication Adherence in Free Clinic Patients
Jae Park
Board 3
Do You Have CLAS?: A statewide initiative to improve knowledge of CLAS standards among providers, students and consumers
Stacey Brown, PhD, Rasy Mar, MPH, Karen Sears, PhD and Maritza Bond, MPH
Board 4
“He Beat You in the Blood”: Knowledge and Beliefs about the Transmission of Traits among Latinos from Mexico and Central America
Joanne Sandberg, Ph.D., Guadalupe Rodriguez, MS, Sara A. Quandt, PhD, Timothy Howard, PhD and Thomas A. Arcury, PhD
Board 5
Communicating health disparities: Media representations of the County Health Rankings in North Carolina
Mary Tucker-McLaughlin, PhD and Nancy Winterbauer, PhD, MS, MA
Board 6
Prioritizing and mapping the distribution of high-risk audience segments: Rural teens and seat belt behavior
Sarah Evans, Ph.D., Jonathan Mendelson, M.S. and Kara Marsh, Ph.D.
Board 7
Investigating Healthiness in Appalachian People
Delia Frederick, RN, MSN
Board 8
Utilizing health literacy in chronic disease prevention
Brian Wyant
  
Board 9
English proficiency and health literacy in an Immigrant population: Findings from the Health Information National Trend Survey
Jeong Kyu Lee and Christopher Magee
Board 10
“You don't have to know how to read to get health information from the Internet!”: Reducing the digital divide through a tailored multimedia Internet interface to provide Ethiopian immigrants with low-literacy skills with information on health issues they chose
Eimi Lev, PhD, Nurit Guttman, PhD, Seffefe Aycheh, PhD, Elad Segev, PhD, Anat Gesser-Edelsburg, PhD, Limor Ziv, Fekado Gadamo, Nivi Dayan and Gal Javetz

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

Organized by: Public Health Education and Health Promotion
Endorsed by: Medical Care Section, Socialist Caucus, American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Caucus, Community Health Workers

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