Socialist Caucus

NOTE: Sessions listed in italics have been organized by another section, SPIG, or caucus but are endorsed by Socialist Caucus.

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Monday, November 17, 2003

8:30 AM-10:00 AM Mon
3017.0International responses to homelessness (Oral)
3022.0HIV, TB and Hepatitis B Prevention and Services for the Incarcerated (Oral)
3023.0Improving Access for Underserved Populations: Success Stories from the W.K. Kellogg Community Voices Initiative (Oral)
3024.0Transforming Communities through Popular Education (Oral)
3025.0The Healthy Environments Partnership: A Community-Based Approach to Understanding and Reducing Heart Disease in Detroit (Oral)
3033.0Behavior, Lifestyle and Social Determinants of Health: Session I (Oral)
3040.0Hot Topics in Aging and Health (Poster)
3043.0Quality of Life in the Later Years (Poster)
3055.0SARS: Response to a Global Epidemic (Oral)
3057.0Policies and Practices of Development Agencies (Oral)
3058.0Access to care as a determinant of health (Oral)
3059.0Adolescent Health: Behavior Change, Health Risk Attitudes and Risky Behavior (Oral)
3060.0Hospital Support for Breastfeeding and Associated Outcomes (Oral)
3064.0Ethnic and Racial Disparities Contributed Papers: Patient-Provider Relationship and Communication (Oral)
3069.0Family Planning Reproductive Health Services for Men (Poster)
3070.0Availability, Access, and Quality of Global Reproductive Health Services (Poster)
3071.0Maintaining Access to Abortion Care (Poster)
3073.0New Developments in Reproductive Health Programs (Poster)
3079.0Violence and Health Disparity Research (Oral)
3084.0Financial, Racial and Ethnic Disparities of a Diverse Population (Oral)
3085.0Public Health: Politics, Ethics and Activism (Oral)
3088.0Women's Healthcare Choices in the Second Half of Life (Oral)
3089.0HPV and Women (Oral)
10:30 AM-12:00 PM Mon
3094.0Body, Mind and Spirit in Public Health - Part I (Oral)
3105.0Health Issues of Asian American and Pacific Islander Women (Oral)
3108.0Health Disparities Among Immigrants: Risks and Outcomes (Oral)
3110.0Community Partnerships that Work to Improve the Public's Health (Oral)
3114.0Community Health Workers as Activists: Meeting the Needs of the Community (Oral)
3119.0Innovative Epidemiologic Methods for Community-based Investigations (Oral)
3129.0Accessing Life-Saving Therapies Through The AIDS Drug Assistance Program (Oral)
3138.0Research on High Risk Birth Outcomes and SIDS/Infant Mortality (Oral)
3140.0Access to Essential Medicines: Why can't we find a way to provide AIDS drugs to countries in the developing world? (Drug Policy and Pharmacy Services Committee Solicited Session) (Oral)
3146.0STI/HIV Prevention: The view from Reproductive Health (Oral)
3147.0Global Exchange: Domestic and International Reproductive Health Programs (Oral)
3152.0Competency and Collaboration (Oral)
3154.0Universal Health Care as the Civil Rights Struggle of the 21st Century (Oral)
3155.0Immigrant California: Inequality and Public Health in Historical Perspective (Oral)
3157.0Helping Women Harmed by Sexual Abuse as Children (Oral)
12:30 PM-2:00 PM Mon
3163.0Body, Mind and Spirit in Public Health - Part II (Oral)
3171.0Health Issues of Under-Studied Asian American and Pacific Islander Subgroups (Oral)
3173.0Addressing Chronic Homelessness: The Implications of Federal Policy on Housing and Services (Oral)
3174.0Impact of religion and spirituality on health (Roundtable)
3175.0Disparities in Access to Care Among Refugee and Immigrant Populations (Oral)
3178.0Uninsured: Reaching, Enrolling and Serving Them (Oral)
3186.0The Emergent Majority: Will we have the data? (Oral)
3200.0Achieving universal healthcare: What are the states doing? (Oral)
3201.0Latino Gay Men and HIV (Oral)
3202.0Prevention Case Management for People Living With HIV/AIDS (Oral)
3208.0Community Involvement (Oral)
3216.0Quality Improvement Comes of Age (Quality Improvement Contributed Papers #1) (Oral)
3217.0Population Density, Workforce, and Service Characteristics and Needs as Determinants of Rural Healthcare Delivery (Oral)
3218.0P. Ellen Parsons Memorial Session: Globalization and Health (Oral)
3219.0Health and Income: Determinants and Effects of Disparities (Health Economics Contributed Papers #1) (Oral)
3225.0War and Public Health (Oral)
3226.0Not the same old: Innovations in Teenage Pregnancy Prevention (Oral)
3227.0Increasing Access to Care: The Role of Reproductive Health Policy (Poster)
3228.0Strengthening the delivery of reproductive health: The issue of quality (Poster)
3229.0Bridging the Gap: Integrating Maternal and Child Health and Reproductive Health (Poster)
3242.0Improving the Nutritional Environment in California Schools (Oral)
3243.0Impact of Welfare Reform on Families and Children (Oral)
3244.0Drug Pushers: How Big PhRMA is Hazardous to Women's Health (Oral)
3245.0Multi-level Analysis of Racial Disparities in Preterm Birth Rates and Individual and Neighborhood Characteristics (Oral)
3247.0Access to Care (Poster)
2:30 PM-4:00 PM Mon
3254.0Public Health Considerations for Acupuncture in the US (Oral)
3276.0Improving Nutrition and Physical Activity Interventions Through Community-based Participatory Research (Oral)
3278.0Medicare reform and prescription drugs (Panel Discussion)
3279.0Access to care: What are the Barriers and how do we remove them? (Oral)
3281.0Underserved and Disadvantaged Populations: Telling the Stories (Oral)
3282.0Creative Advocacy Strategies For Increasing Public Support For Safety Net Providers (Oral)
3291.0Nutrition and Environmental Factors in Maternal and Child Health (Oral)
3292.0Violence Prevention in Families and Communities: identification and treatment of victims of violence (Oral)
3294.0Challenging Determinants of Preterm Birth (Oral)
3295.0The History of Immigration Policy: At Home and Abroad (Oral)
3296.0Strategies for Addressing the Urban Asthma Crisis (Urban Health Contributed Papers) (Oral)
3297.0Social Science Perspectives on Managing Chronic Disease (Oral)
3298.0Screening and Satisfaction Assessment in Womens' Health (Womens' Health Contributed Papers) (Oral)
3304.0Promising Approaches for Integrating HIV,STI, and Family Planning Services (Oral)
3311.0Addressing the Youth Obesity Epidemic (Oral)
3312.0Medical Malpractice, Quality, and National Health Care Reform (Oral)
3313.0Social Justice & Public Health: Data Needs and Data Privacy (Oral)
3316.0Breast Cancer (Oral)
4:30 PM-6:00 PM Mon
3328.0Alternative Therapies in Women's Health (Oral)
3332.0Grassroots and Community Based Efforts to Promote Health among Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders (Poster)
3333.0Sociocultural Determinants of the Health of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (Poster)
3336.0Poverty, Literacy and Health (Poster)
3339.0Understanding Social Capital as a Means to Improve Healthy Lifestyle Choices (Oral)
3341.0Building and Sustaining Creative Partnerships for Health: Examples from the Field (Oral)
3346.0Preventing Overweight and Obesity: Policy and Environmental Approaches (Oral)
3349.0Impact of State and Federal Budget Deficits on State Medicaid and SCHIP Programs (Oral)
3350.0HIV Care and Prevention: Latin American and the Caribbean (Oral)
3351.0Benchmarks of Fairness for Health Care Reform (Oral)
3354.0The Nursing Shortage: Prescriptions for Safety (Oral)
3355.0Access as a Determinant of Health: Experiences Among Latinos (Poster)
3356.0Health Disparities as a Determinant of Latino Health (Poster)
3361.0Walk in My Shoes: A Health Access Simulation (Oral)
3362.0Why Does the US Healthcare System Cost So Much? - Update on Health Services Research (Oral)
3369.0Terrorism and Public Health (Oral)
3382.0The Politics of War & Health: Linking Social Justice & Public Health--History, Data, and Pedagogy (Oral)
3383.0Classification Issues in Public Health Policy (Oral)
3385.0Intimate Partner Violence: Effective Interventions (Oral)
8:30 PM-10:00 PM Mon
3391.0Women's Issues in Nutrition and Physical Activity: A Cross-cultural Point of View (Oral)
3392.0HIV and Special Populations: Adolescents (Oral)
3393.0Safe Motherhood, Reproductive Health, and Newborns (Oral)
3401.0Community Based PHN Education (Oral)
3402.0Social and Political Aspects of Health (Oral)

Tuesday, November 18, 2003

8:30 AM-10:00 AM Tue
4014.0Utilization and Prevalence of Alternative Therapies (Oral)
4015.0Designing a Native Health System for the 21st Century - Updating the Canoe Voyage (Roundtable)
4022.0Impact of and Responses to Violence among Refugees and Immigrants (Oral)
4036.0Behavior, Lifestyle and Social Determinants of Health: Session II (Oral)
4038.0Determinants and Barriers to Health Behavior Change (Oral)
4039.0Crisis of Growing Old: Limitations to Physical Functioning, Isolation, and Depression in Sedentary America (Oral)
4042.0Increasing Access to Care: Examples of Public Health Practice (Oral)
4043.0HIV/AIDS and Substance Abuse (Oral)
4046.0Occupational Injury: The Role of Transportation and Violence (Oral)
4047.0Update: Anti-retroviral Treatment for AIDS in Africa (Oral)
4048.0Issues in the Poorest Countries (Oral)
4050.0Reproductive Health (Oral)
4052.0Evidence Based Practices in Maternity Care That Foster Patient-Provider Communication and Trust (Oral)
4053.0Innovations in International Maternal Care and Program Evaluation (Oral)
4070.0Violence and Its Impact on Health: An International Public Health Problem (Oral)
4072.0Reproductive Health Policy and Advocacy: Now more than ever (Oral)
4073.0Responding to the Reproductive Needs of Youth: Risk Behaviors and Beyond (Oral)
4074.0Reproductive Health of Adolescents: U.S. Lessons (Oral)
4083.0The Role of Government in Promoting Healthy Behavior (Oral)
4084.0Preventing HIV, Other STDs, and Pregnancy Among Youth (Oral)
4085.0Teaching Activism for Public Health (Oral)
4088.0Speaking Truth to Power: Feminist Health Organizing and Advocacy in a Conservative Era (Oral)
12:30 PM-2:00 PM Tue
4107.0Introduction to and Considerations in Complementary and Alternative Therapies (CAM) (Poster)
4107.1LATEBREAKER on Naturopathic Doctors (ND's) Licensed in California - Research (Oral)
4108.0Effects of Social Determinants on Native Health (Oral)
4113.0The Impact of Health Policies and the Organization of Health Services on the Health of API Populations (Oral)
4116.0Addressing the Social and Health Needs of Minorities (Poster)
4117.0Meeting the Needs of the Medically Underserved and Uninsured (Poster)
4118.0Social Capital and Its Relationship to an Individual's Health Status (Poster)
4122.0Community Health Workers: In our own Voices - Celebrating the Successes and Challenges (Oral)
4131.0Increases in High-Risk Behaviors and Syphilis Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in the United States (Oral)
4136.0The Long-term Care Continuum: Informal and Formal Care for Elders (Oral)
4142.0HIV/AIDS Care and Prevention: Africa (Oral)
4150.0Latinos, Chronic Diseases and the Environment (Poster)
4151.0The Border and Binational Communities (Poster)
4155.0Emerging Problems in Jail and Prison Health: Infection and Aging (Jail and Prison Health Contributed Papers) (Oral)
4156.0Patient and provider agreement - A basis for quality improvement (Quality Improvement Contributed Papers #2) (Oral)
4157.0Poverty Does Matter - The Social Determinants of Health (Medical Care Section Solicited Session #2) (Oral)
4161.0Structural Violence and The Culture of Fear (Oral)
4164.0Breaking new ground: The role of Governmental and Non-Governmental Organizations in Reproductive Health Care Delivery (Oral)
4165.0Medical Abortion and Post Abortion Care: Promising Strategies (Oral)
4171.0The Politics of Food: The American Diet and Food Safety (Oral)
4176.0Sex Workers: Voluntary and Forced (Oral)
2:30 PM-4:00 PM Tue
4181.0Alternative Therapies from Around the World (Oral)
4186.0The Documentation, Measurement, and Amelioration of Health Disparities Within API Populations (Oral)
4188.0Health Needs and Service Use Among Homeless People (Oral)
4191.0Addressing Social, Linguistic and Cultural Barriers to Accessing Health Care (Oral)
4192.0BPHC Panel:Innovative Community-based Approaches to Program and Policy Development aimed at Reducing Disparities in Primary Care and Promoting Healthy Behaviors and Lifestyles (Oral)
4197.0Is Scientific Research Compatible With Political, Community And Labor Activism? (Oral)
4201.0Innovative Community Programs Related to Overweight and Obesity (Oral)
4210.0Linking Prevention and Care (Oral)
4211.0Violence Against Women (Oral)
4212.0Agricultural Injuries to Children (Oral)
4213.0Disparities and Inequalities (Oral)
4216.0The Social Costs of Large Retailers' (and Other Large Employers) Health Care Practices (Oral)
4217.0Health disparities (Oral)
4219.0Bills and ballots: Lessons on the road to universal coverage (Medical Care Section Solicited Session #1) (Oral)
4220.0Medication Safety: Drug Policy and Pharmacy Services Contributed Papers #1 (Oral)
4221.0Access to Health Insurance (Health Services Research Contributed Papers #2) (Oral)
4228.0Social Disparities and Reproductive Health: New Strategies and Innovations (Oral)
4229.0The Modern Public Health Aspects of Abortion (Oral)
4237.0Globalization, Health and Liberation Medicine (Oral)
4239.0Rape and Sexual Assault (Oral)
4:30 PM-6:00 PM Tue
4245.0The North American Naturopathic Medical Research Agenda: Queries from the Heart of the Medicine (Panel Discussion)
4246.0Impacting Health Disparities (Oral)
4253.0Healthy Lifestyle Choices and the Social Environment (Oral)
4254.0Medicaid: Reaching Those In Need (Oral)
4255.0Fighting Racial and Ethnic Disparities from the Ground Up: Local Partnerships Address Access, Treatment, Other Needs of Minority Groups (Oral)
4268.0Diversity over the Life Course: Race, Ethnicity, and Aging (Oral)
4269.0Planning for and Caring during the End of Life (Oral)
4273.0Bay Area Community Organizing for Health Justice (Oral)
4275.0Special Projects of National Significance: Developing and Evaluating Innovative HIV Demonstration Projects (Oral)
4276.0International HIV Care & Prevention (Oral)
4276.1Special Session: New Prevention Strategies for a Changing Epidemic (Oral)
4282.0Innovation in Public Health Frameworks and Interventions for Latinas (Oral)
4286.0Topics in MCH Nutrition and Breastfeeding (Poster)
4289.0Systems to Improve Maternal and Child Health (Poster)
4290.0Avedis Donabedian Award Session - Honoring Don Rucker, Ph.D. (Improving Quality Improvement in Health Care: Foundations and Frontiers) (Oral)
4291.0Ethnic and Racial Disparities Contributed Papers: Empiric Studies (Oral)
4292.0Lessons in Health Care Reform from Abroad (Medical Care Section Solicited Session #3) (Oral)
4299.0Domestic and International Reproductive Health: A Mosaic of Adolescent Experiences (Poster)
4300.0Methodological and Programmatic Challenges in Reproductive Health (Poster)
4301.0Sustaining Reproductive Health Services: Global Lessons (Oral)
4310.0Nutrition, Exercise& Lifestyles in Health (Poster)
4311.0Health Access for Vulnerable Populations (Poster)
4313.0Community Partnerships (Poster)
4316.0Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health (Poster)
4317.0Youth Sexual Health (Poster)
4319.0Mental Health Services for the Elderly Population (Oral)
4320.0For-Profit Health Care: Does Corporate Care Breed Corporate Crime? (Oral)
4322.0Follow-up of Abnormal Pap Tests (Oral)
8:30 PM-10:00 PM Tue
4328.0Immigrants, Refugees, and War (Oral)
4329.0Environmental Health (Oral)

Wednesday, November 19, 2003

8:30 AM-10:00 AM Wed
5012.0Strategies for Reaching Refugee and Immigrant Populations (Oral)
5015.0Serving Cultural and Linguistic Minorities in the Community While Addressing Behavior, Lifestyle and Social Determinants of Health (Oral)
5039.0Violent Injury: What Do the Existing Data Tell Us? (Oral)
5044.0The Impact of Corruption on Public Health in Developing Countries (Oral)
5046.0Lessons From World Experience (Oral)
5050.0Violence Prevention in Families and Communities (Poster)
5051.0Women's Health Issues (Poster)
5053.0Interventions that Make a Difference: Innovative Programs to Improve Pregnancy Outcomes (Oral)
5054.0Financing the provision of pharmaceuticals: Drug Policy and Pharmacy Services Contributed Papers #2 (Oral)
5055.0Is the Level of U.S. Spending on Medical Care Appropriate? (Medical Care Section Solicited Session #4) (Oral)
5056.0Delivering Quality Health Care in Rural America (Oral)
5061.0Emergency Contraception: Challenges and Successes (Oral)
5063.0Culture, Gender and Reproductive Health (Oral)
5064.0Role of Relationships, Gender and Men in Reproductive Health (Oral)
5070.0Economics: Finding the Money (Oral)
5072.0Social Influences on Tobacco Use and Other Youth Risk Behaviors (Oral)
5072.1School Health Around the World (Poster)
5073.0The Impact on Environmental Social Services on the Community at-Large (Oral)
5075.0Older Women's Health and Well-being (Oral)
12:30 PM-2:00 PM Wed
5088.0Innovative Community-based Approaches for Promoting Health Behaviors (Oral)
5089.0Innovative Strategies to Address Urban Health (Oral)
5090.0Community Health Workers Addressing Health Disparities in their Communities (Oral)
5097.0Coinfections with HIV, HBV, and HCV in Arrestees: Results from a Three-Jail Study (Oral)
5099.0Nutrition and Physical Activity Research: Toward the Prevention of Overweight and Obesity (Oral)
5100.0Health Policy and Aging (Oral)
5104.0Promoting Quality Health Care for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations (Oral)
5106.0Prevention (Oral)
5107.0Service Delivery (Oral)
5108.0Violent Behavior in Adolescents and Young Adults (Oral)
5111.0Less Burnout and Dissatisfaction: Improving the Work Environment for Nurses (Oral)
5112.0The health determinants of immigrant communities (Oral)
5114.0Breastfeeding: Definitions, Policies and Patterns (Oral)
5115.0Programs to Reduce Health Disparities and Infant Mortality (Oral)
5116.0Cuts and Bruises or Major Trauma: Impact of Federal and State Medicaid Changes on Women, Children and Youth (Oral)
5117.0Labour Supply Responses to a Changing Health Care Environment (Health Economics Contributed Papers #2) (Oral)
5119.0Findings from the National Healthcare Disparities Report (Medical Care Section Solicited Session #5) (Oral)
5125.0Epidemiology of War (Oral)
5126.0He Said, She Said: Couple Communication and Sexual Behavior (Oral)
5131.0Critical Public Health Tools for Addressing Contemporary Environmental Health Threats (Oral)
5134.0Immigration/Impact on Social Service Delivery Systems (Oral)
5137.0Health of Incarcerated Women (Oral)
2:30 PM-4:00 PM Wed
5158.0Managed Care and Public Health (Oral)
5160.0Underserved and Disadvantaged Populations: New Approaches (Oral)
5162.0Treatment (Oral)
5163.0Firearms and Firearm-Related Injury (Oral)
5166.0Rights-Based Approaches to Providing Emergency Obstetric Care (Oral)
5167.0Childhood and Newborn Health (Oral)
5169.0Racial Disparities in Maternal and Child Health (Oral)
5172.0Jail and Prison Health Solicited Session (Oral)
5178.0Reproductive Health: Meeting the Challenge of HIV/STI Prevention (Oral)
5179.0Social Context and Multi-Faceted Approaches to Reducing Adolescent Reproductive Risk (Oral)
5180.0Misoprostol, Abortion and Post Abortion Care: Service Delivery Challenges and Innovations (Oral)
5184.0Educational programs for the international community (Oral)
5186.0Environment: Conflicting Responsibilities (Oral)
5187.0From Bullying to Caring: Healthy School Climates (Oral)
5189.0Adolescent Health and Well-being (Oral)

The 131st Annual Meeting (November 15-19, 2003) of APHA