2015 APHA Annual Meeting & Expo

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Online Program

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Infant & Child Health Oral Session 3

Wednesday, November 4, 2015: 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Oral
Session Objectives: Discuss parent engagement and use of well-child visits to improve child health and HRQOL, immunization rates, food quality in schools through mobile food vendors, and home visiting services.
Organizers:
Ruth Perou, PhD and Marianne Hillemeier, PhD, MPH
Moderators:
Ruth Perou, PhD and Marianne M. Hillemeier, PhD, MPH

12:30pm
Digging deeper to engage parents in promoting child well-being: Empowering parents and leveraging well child visits to promote early and lifelong health of children and families   
Christina Bethell, PhD, MPH, MBA, Judith Shaw, Ed.D., M.P.H., R.N., Michele Solloway, PhD, Caitlin Murphy, MPA-PNP and Heather Fitzgerald, MPH
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
12:40pm
Predicting Health Related Quality of Life among Injured Children   
Amy Schneeberg, BA, MSc, MPT, PhD candidate, Sami Kruse, MPH, Takuro Ishikawa, MSc, PhD student, Morgan Yates, MScN, RN, MN student and Mariana Brussoni, PhD
12:50pm
Give Us Your Best Shot: An Interactive Online Look at Childhood Immunizations   
Adam Cherepski, MEd and Jeffrey Pinto, BSN, CRRN
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
1:00pm
Working with Mobile Food Vendors to Foster Healthy School Food Environments   
Anna Barnes, MPH, Katherine Nickele, Rachael Dombrowski, MPH, Sarah B. Welch, MPH and Nadia Sulayman
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
1:10pm
Improving child health with a home visitation program: A PATHS Equity Project   
Mariette Chartier, RN, PhD, Nathan Nickel, MPH, PhD, Marni Brownell, PhD, Dan Chateau, PhD, Alan Katz, MBChB, MSc, CCFP, Elaine Burland, PhD, Micahel Issac, MD, MPH, Joykrishna Sarkar, MSc, Carole Taylor, MSc and Chun Yan Goh, MSc
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)

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

Organized by: Maternal and Child Health
Endorsed by: Women's Caucus, Breastfeeding Forum, APHA-Committee on Women's Rights

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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