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Recorded Annual Meeting Presentations (RAMP) are now available for purchase.
Only $90 for presenters, $140 for registered attendees and $200 for non-attendees.

Online Program

338369
An Asset-Based Look at Health Equity


Monday, November 2, 2015 : 11:10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Julie Palmer, ScD, Boston University, Boston, MA
Traci N. Bethea, MPA, PhD, Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, Boston University, Boston, MA

Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
This session looks at the data from the Black Women’s Health Study and presents the social, demographic and economic characteristics of women who describe themselves as healthy.  In it, the researchers will discuss why this is an important new way of looking at health equity and what the public health practice and policy communities can learn from healthy Black women.

Learning Areas:

Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs
Public health or related public policy

Learning Objectives:
Discuss the Black Women’s Health Study findings on the characteristics and behaviors of healthy Black women. Identify key epidemiologic components of IndexUS and their policy implications. Identify differences between the IndexUS approach to health equity and traditional research approaches and what this means for public health practice and policy.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I was the co-principal investigator of a project focusing on self-rated health in the Black Women’s Health Study. I have also published on the relation of behavioral and sociodemographic factors in relation to self-rated health.
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.

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