The Public Health Nursing Section welcomes and invites individual abstracts and full session proposals for 2018 pertinent to the basic elements of public health:

• championing social justice,
• addressing population health,
• based in the evidence,
• leadership and advocacy, 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:

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.

• Academic and Practice Partnerships
  
• Chronic disease prevention, screening, treatment
  
• Communication and Technology Strategies
  
• Disaster Preparation, Response, and Recovery
  
• Environmental Health
  
• Global Health
  
• Health Promotion Strategies
  
• Immigrant and Refugee Health
  
• Maternal -Child Health
  
• PHN Leadership in Action
  
• PHN Research
  
• PHN Workforce Challenges and Solutions
  
• Public Health Nursing Education
  
• Risk Reduction Strategies
  
• School Health
  
• Social Justice and Determinants of Health
  
• Substance Abuse Prevention
  
• Violence Prevention
  
• Vulnerable Populations
  

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.

Review Criteria

All abstracts will be blind-reviewed by two- 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 Mighty Fine (mighty.fine@apha.org).

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Program Planner Contact Information:

Kathy ShawCO
kathy.shaw@ucdenver.edu

and
Donna Kazemi
dkazemi@uncc.edu