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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
3142.0: Monday, November 11, 2002: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| Since its inception in rural, pre-apartheid South Africa, community oriented primary care (COPC) has intrigued and informed public health and primary care leaders worldwide. COPC has influenced programs as varied and as important as the community health center movement in the United States, the general practice movement in the United Kingdom, and recent reforms in the public health system of South Africa. This forum will be divided into two sessions. The first will be entitled Legacy and Vision: COPC's Conceptual Migration and will examine the role of COPC in health systems around the world and in the United States. It will pay particular attention to conceptual issues. The second will be entitled Bringing Technology Home: New Methods for COPC Practice and will explore new technolgies which are making the practice of COPC far more practical and effective than its earlier proponents might ever have imagined. | |||
| Learning Objectives: 1) To become familiar with the epidemiological, data gathering and management, and human resource constraints to practicing COPC encountered in many day to day practice settings. 2) To gain exposure to the powerful geographic information system (GIS) software that now makes mapping and data application to community based practices much more rapid and powerful than in the past. 3) To review the use of qualitative information gathering techniques as applied to community based clinical enterprises. 4) To learn of the rapid developments in Web-based health information ware housing that now make tailor made local information far more available in and efficient fashion that at any time in the past. | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Fitzhugh Mullan, MD | |||
| Geographic Information Systems and COPC Robert L. Williams, MD, MPH, Aaron Allen, PhD | |||
| Geographic retrofitting: A method for community definition Robert L. Phillips, MD, MSPH, Fitzhugh Mullan, MD | |||
| Community-based participatory research and COPC Richard L. Lichtenstein, PhD | |||
| Connecting communities and data to implement COPC Elvan Catherine Daniels, MD | |||
| Organized by: | APHA | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work | ||