The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA

Session: Reaching Minority Communities with Prevention Programs and Encouraging Life Style Changes
5154.0: Wednesday, November 13, 2002: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Oral
Reaching Minority Communities with Prevention Programs and Encouraging Life Style Changes
Learning Objectives: Prevention programs and encouraging life style changes for minorities will be discused..
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Moderator(s):Emylou Solomon
2:30 PMAccess to and use of preventive health care services among Hispanic immigrants - Georgia and Florida, May to July 2001
Kwame Asamoa, MD, MSc, Maria Rodriguez, Md, MPH, Rosa Varela, MD, Gerry Sotomayor, MD, Venus Gines, Kenneth Dominguez, MD, MPH, Consuelo Beck-Sague, MD, Gerry Mills, PhD
2:45 PMNo English? No service: Unmet needs for dental care among linguistically isolated populations
Ruth B. Pickard, PhD, Yun Yan, MS, MD, Katherine H. Kraemer, BA, Michael J. Corrigan, BA
3:00 PMHealth risk behaviors among Vietnamese adult female immigrants living in Northern California
Nhien Luong, MPH, Mohammad M Rahman, MD, DrPH, Stephanie D. Golz, MPH, Kavita Thirumalai, MPH, Hozefa Divan, MSPH, Aimee Reedy, MPH, Guadalupe S Olivas, PhD
3:15 PMDeveloping capacity for tobacco control in Native American communities
Laura A. Beebe, PhD, LaDonna BlueEye, BA, Vicki Cleaver, EdD, Tim Tall Chief, MEd
3:30 PMResults of an intervention to improve screening mammography rates among Medicare eligible African-American women
Edwin D. Huff, PhD, Cynthia Mannis, RN, BSN, Chris Gibbons, MD, MPH, John Hebb, PhD, MBA
Organized by:Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Endorsed by:Latino Caucus; Oral Health; School Health Education and Services
CE Credits:CME, Dental, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA