The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA

Session: Asthma: A Chronic and Growing Challenge In Our Communities
5153.0: Wednesday, November 13, 2002: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Oral
Asthma: A Chronic and Growing Challenge In Our Communities
Learning Objectives: Participants will review asthma as a chronic and growing challenge in our communities.
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Moderator(s):Robert Vogel
2:30 PMChicago Asthma Consortium: Successes and challenges of an independent broad based health coalition
Dorothy Elfring, MPH, Sandra Thomas, MD, MS, Jura Scharf, MA, Edward Naureckas, MD, C. Lucy Park, MD, Evalyn N. Grant, MD
2:45 PMGathering and analyzing data with a community lens:The allies against asthma experience?
Jude Taylor-Fishwick, MPH, Frances D. Butterfoss, PhD, Cynthia Kelly, MD, Debra A. Major, PhD
3:00 PMDepartment of Health and community-based partnerships: Lessons learned from evaluation of the NYC Childhood Asthma Initiative
Aileen Reid, MPA, Carolyn A Berry, PhD, John Billings, JD, Louise R. Cohen, MPH, Andrew Goodman, MD, MPH
3:15 PMIf one partnership is good, then two... or three ... or four... would be better: The development of asthma task forces in Philadelphia
Lawrence Robinson, MD, MPH, Jerome H. Libby, MA
3:30 PMDisparities in asthma prevalence and management in California
Ying-Ying Meng, DrPH, Susan Babey, PhD, E. Richard Brown, PhD, Elizabeth Malcolm, MD, H. Kenneth Fisher, MD
3:45 PMWithdrawn -- Widespread dissemination of asthma research interventions as an important strategy for advancing community-based health promotion
Monique C. B. Winslow, PhD, Winston C. Liao, PhD, Leslie P. Boss, MPH, PhD
Organized by:Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Endorsed by:Environment; Maternal and Child Health; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; School Health Education and Services; Socialist Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA