4108.0: Tuesday, October 23, 2001: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM

Poster Session

Addressing and Preventing Chronic Conditions and Promoting Healthy Lifestyles

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement.
Learning Objectives: 1.Apply the knowledge gained to tailor their health education to taargeted communities.
Board 1'Politicians, you have to hit their radar': Making diabetics count during a risk epidemic
Melanie J. Rock
Board 2A collaborative community approach to the reduction of cardiovascular disease in rural Georgia
Margaret (Peggy) Lee, RN
Board 3Addressing the High Prevalence of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Small, African-American Businesses
Lewis H. Margolis, MD, MPH, Al Richmond, Tynetta Brown, Susan Jackson, Lucille Webb, MEd
Board 4Behavioral change in chronically ill cardiovascular patients: Building blocks for creating a guideline
Lisa E. Paddock, MPH, Peter Chodoff, MD, MPH, David B. Nash, MD, MBA
Board 5Diabetes-related knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors in an Asian American community – telephone survey
Susan B. Baker, PhD, MPH, Lynne H. Nguyen, MPH, Jean Dols, PhD
Board 6Evaluating innovative community collaborations on diabetes
Susan E. Palsbo, PhD, Peter Fitzgerald, MSc, Melissa McNeil, MSW, MS, Marian Parrott, MD, MPH, Thilo Kroll, PhD, David Bauer, MA, MPH
Board 7Learning from the community - water and sanitation behavior and practice in rural Bangladesh
Ziya Uddin, Abdus Sabur, Zaman Ara
Board 8Passage of H.B. 534: Birth Defects Information System (BDIS), Ohio's "healthy baby bill"
Miriam Levitt, PhD, John Ladd
Board 9State Medical Society of Wisconsin Diabetes Outcome Study - Withdrawn
Cindy P Helstad, RN, PhD
Board 9Working with communities to increase genetic knowledge
Michele Puryear, MD, PhD, Cathleen Crain, MA, Robert Fineman, MD, Penny Kyler, MS, John Massad, Donald Mattison, MD, Neil Tashima, PhD, Sharon Terry, Marilyn Wolff, MS
Sponsor:Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Cosponsors:Environment
CE Credits:CME, Chiropractic, Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 129th Annual Meeting of APHA