5076.0: Wednesday, October 24, 2001: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Oral Session

Impact of Emerging Technologies on the Health of Children and Adolescents

Presenters will address the issues that surround the issues about the extent to which emerging technologies are a boon or a bane of education. Both qualitative and quantitative research evidence will be used to support particular positions
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement.
Learning Objectives: Evaluate the extent to which an emerging technology comtributes to desire educational outcomes.
Organizer(s):Robert Stanley Gold, PhD, DrPH
8:30 AMTeen Choices & Challenges
Muriel Y. Guzzi, Frayne B. Rosenfield, MPH, CHES, Robert A. Aboulache, MA, CHT
8:45 AMA neural net to enhance discovery learning
Robert S. Gold, PhD, DrPH, Nancy L. Atkinson, PhD, Blakely Pomietto
9:00 AMTargeting Adolescents through Innovative Prevention Intervention Technologies
Jennifer Faucette, BA, Rob Levy, MPH, Lisa Carella, BS, CHES
9:15 AMTeenNet: Innovative Use of WEB Technology to Address Tobacco-Related Teen Health Risk Behaviors
A. Serdar Atav, PhD, Gale A. Spencer, RN, PhD, Yvonne Johnston, MS, RN, CS, FNP
9:30 AMTelevision viewing and its association with overweight, physical inactivity, and fruit and vegetable consumption among US high school students: Racial, ethnic, and gender differences
Richard Lowry, MD, MS, Howell Wechsler, EdD, MPH, Deborah A. Galuska, PhD, Janet E. Fulton, PhD, Laura Kann, PhD
9:45 AMUsing critical thinking to help deconstruct advertising messages and promote media literacy
Dawn Larsen, PhD, CHES, Margaret Murray-Davis, PhD
Sponsor:School Health Education and Services
Cosponsors:Community Health Planning and Policy Development
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 129th Annual Meeting of APHA