The Public Health Nursing Section welcomes and invites individual abstracts and full session proposals for 2017 pertinent to the basic elements of public health:

• championing social justice,
• addressing population health,
• based in the evidence, and
• pertaining to prevention and health promotion.

The PHN Section also welcomes and invites individual abstracts and full session proposals pertaining to Section Strategic Priorities:

• Academic and Practice Partnerships
  
• Accreditation and Quality Improvement
  
• Chronic disease prevention, screening, treatment
  
• Climate Change
  
• Communication and Technology Strategies
  
• Disaster Preparation, Response, and Recovery
  
• Environmental Health
  
• Global Health
  
• Health Promotion Strategies
  
• Immigrant and Refugee Health
  
• PHN Research
  
• PHN Workforce Challenges and Solutions
  
• Public Health Nurses Luncheon
  
• Public Health Nursing Education
  
• Risk Reduction Strategies
  
• School Health
  
• Social Justice
  
• Violence Prevention
  
• Vulnerable Populations
  
• Women and Children's Health
  

Abstracts may be submitted for oral, poster, roundtable, or full session proposals, although the Program Planners may reassign requested formats to make best use of the Section’s limited sessions. Presenting authors must be APHA members and register for attendance at the Annual Meeting.

Abstract Format

Limit abstracts to 250 words, using one of three formats:

1)  Research:

• Background
• Methods
• Results
• Conclusions

2)   “Lessons-learned:”

• Background/ Issue
• Description
• Lessons Learned
• Implications/recommendations

3)  Narrative:

• Statement of the problem
• Approach
• Product/outcome
• Implications

Full Session Proposals: 

Full Sessions are 90 minutes long and require 3-5 individually submitted abstracts. Full session abstracts are reviewed through the regular submission process. Indicate to which full session they belong by including the full session title in the abstract title. For example, for a State of the Science full session abstract, entitle it:  “State of The Science Update: Effective Counseling Methods for Vaccine Withholders.”

Review Criteria

All abstracts will be blind-reviewed by three reviewers using the following criteria:

1. Importance of the issue
2. Innovative methods
3. Soundness of the science
4. Substantive nature of the work
5. Compelling conclusions

Continuing Education Credit for Sessions 
For a session to be eligible for Continuing Education Credit, each abstract must:

1)  be free of trade and/or commercial product names

2)  have at least one measurable objective written in action terms

3)  include a signed Conflict of Interest (Disclosure) form with a relevant Qualification Statement.

For continuing education questions, please contact Annette Ferebee at annette.ferebee@apha

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Program Planner Contact Information:

Alexandra Garcia
agarcia@mail.nur.utexas.edu

and
Kathy Shaw, DNP, RN, CDE
Phone: 303-724-8528
Fax: 303-724-0960
Kathy.Shaw@ucdenver.edu

and
Tom Engle, MN, RN
Retired; Oregon Public Health Division
15555 NW Norwich
Beaverton, OR 97006
Phone: 503-806-2390
tsengle@frontier.com

and
Donna Kazemi
dkazemi@uncc.edu