Telehealth, Public Health, and Health Policy: Bridging the Geographic Divide for Rural Populations

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Rural and frontier health

Wednesday, November 4, 2015: 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Oral

Moderator:

Kate Perkins

12:30pm

Community-based colorectal cancer screening in a rural setting using fecal immunochemical test (FIT) kits
Kathryn Cardarelli, PhD, MPH, Richard Crosby, PhD, Tom Collins, BS and Robin C. Vanderpool, DrPH, CHES

12:50pm

Differences in maintenance vs. acute care between a rural and urban Mississippi Medicare Advantage population with diabetes; a cross-sectional analysis
Kayleigh Majercak, MS, Priya John, MPH, Christine Hettel, MPH, CPH, CPA, Erik Eaker, MHA, Andrew Renda, MD, MPH, Diana Cusano, MPH and Vipin Gopal, Ph.D, MBA

1:10pm

Academic-community partnership to implement medication therapy management (MTM) services in rural communities improves adherence to preventative health guidelines for rural patients with diabetes and/or hypertension
Rebecca Jastrzab, PharmD, Melissa Johnson, PharmD, Kate Johnson, RN, BSN, Elizabeth Hall-Lipsy, JD, MPH, Rose Martin, PharmD, Ann Taylor, MPH, MCHES and Terri Warholak, PhD

1:30pm

Telehealth, Public Health, and Health Policy: Bridging the Geographic Divide for Rural Populations
Andrew Solomon, MPH, Garret Spargo, MA, Elizabeth Krupinski, PhD and Kathy Wibberly, PhD

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

Organized by: Medical Care Section
Endorsed by: Community Health Workers, APHA-Committee on Women's Rights

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