Strengthening the roots: Community participation in the development and implementation of local policies to promote healthy eating and tobacco cessation in Puerto Rico

4406.0
Preventing Obesity and Other Related Chronic Diseases Through Community Health Program and Policy Development

Tuesday, November 3, 2015: 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Oral

4:30pm

Associations between Support for Policies to Address Obesity among Children in Kansas and Poverty Status
Ghada Homsi, ME, Pamela Williams, PhD, Laurel Curry, MPH, Carol Schmitt, PhD and Todd Rogers, PhD

4:50pm

Berkeley SSB Tax: We won, now what?
Xavier Morales, PhD and Rebecca DeLaRosa, MPA

5:10pm

Preventing Diabetes with the Establishment of a Health System Policy for Screening and Referral to a Community-based program
Janet Williams, MA, Christopher S. Holliday, PhD, MPH and Vanessa Salcedo, MPH

5:30pm

Strengthening the roots: Community participation in the development and implementation of local policies to promote healthy eating and tobacco cessation in Puerto Rico
Miriam Ramos, MS, Abraham Rivera-Alvarado, MS, Yiselly Vazquez-Guzman, EdD, MPHE, CHES, Antonio Cases, MP and Madeline Reyes-Garcia, MD, MPH

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Organized by: Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Endorsed by: Food and Nutrition, Law, Chiropractic Health Care, APHA-Committee on Women's Rights