The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
5024.0: Wednesday, November 13, 2002: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM | |||
Poster | |||
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While there have been important advances in reducing exposures to lead, this preventable disease continues to seriously affect many children across the United States. These poster sessions highlight state of the art approaches to identifying lead hazards, effective prevention strategies, and the actual at risk children who might have high blood lead levels. | |||
Learning Objectives: 1. Learn about new technologies and programs to identify communtities and individuals with potential lead problems. 2. Develop community based programs to reach children with potential elevated blood lead levels. 3. Outline public and private sector approaches to lead issues. | |||
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
Nsedu Obot, MPH Brenda Afzal, RN, MS Tunde Akinmoladun, PHD John Neuberger, MBA, MPH, DrPH Marybeth Smuts, PhD Patrice Sulik | |||
Continued low level prevalence of childhood lead poisoning in Chester, PA: Cause for complacency or future concern? Masood Ali Shaikh, MD, MPH, Irshad A. Shaikh, MD, MPH, PhD | |||
Using Data via GIS to Plan Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Strategies in Detroit, Michigan Virginia G. Beringer, MPH, Marlene Swift, RN, C. Valerie Rice, PhD, Jadjit Dhillon | |||
Environmental lead levels in inner city areas in Miami Janvier Gasana, MD, MPH, PhD, Armando Chamorro, MS, CIH, Amanda Coltes, MPH, Trisha W. Ready | |||
Primary prevention of childhood lead poisoning in Philadelphia Colleen M. McCauley, RN, BSN, Richard E Tobin, MS, MPA | |||
Creation of the Rochester Lead Free Coalition and It’s Impact on the Primary Prevention of Childhood Lead Poisoning in Rochester, New York David N. Broadbent, MD, MPH | |||
Predicting lead risk in children from screening survey questions and census block groups Stan Kaplowitz, PhD, Harry Perlstadt, PhD, MPH, Yasmina Bouraoui, Sean Frost, Warren Brown, PhD, Lori Ann Post, PhD, Marguerite Barratt, PhD | |||
WIC enrollment and nutrient intake of children with elevated blood lead levels Mary Jean Brown, RN, ScD, Pat McLaine, RN, MPH, Peter Simon, MD MPH | |||
Relocation of residents during lead hazard control work; A look at current practices Shara Godiwalla, MPH | |||
Reducing health service inequities for children: Adapting motivational enhancement and stages of change models for in-home lead reduction interventions by AmeriCorps volunteers John A. Dougherty, PhD | |||
Effects and Impacts Associated with a Decade of State and Federally-Funded Case-Management and Lead Hazard Control Program Inputs on the Occurrence of Childhood Lead Poisoning in a City Health Department Jurisdiction Donald Fast, MPH, Hanan Obeidi, MPH, CHES, Kathy Ouchi, PHN, Roya Momensafaii, BS, Donald Cillay, MPH, Ronald R. Arias, MPA | |||
Organized by: | Environment | ||
Endorsed by: | Asian Pacific Islander Caucus of APHA; Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Maternal and Child Health; Public Health Nursing; School Health Education and Services | ||
CE Credits: | Environmental Health, Nursing, Social Work |