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Session: Social/Behavior: Improving Access to Care in the Current Political and Economic Environment
3042.0: Monday, November 8, 2004: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Oral
Social/Behavior: Improving Access to Care in the Current Political and Economic Environment
To highlight the process of community collaboration and consensus-building that would conduct health care access planning and coordination.
Learning Objectives: Develop a plan for moving communities from public discourse to policy action on health care governance; and assess their own community’s readiness to develop a similar public/private partnership model for covering the uninsured.
Presider(s):Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim, MD, PhD
8:30 AMInfectious Diseases Treated in Emergency Departments: United States, 2001  [ Recorded presentation ]
Nelson Adekoya, DrPH
8:48 AMChanging the safety net governance structure to improve health care access in Miami-Dade County  [ Recorded presentation ]
Leda, M. Perez, PhD
9:06 AMExpanding coverage of the uninsured: Challenges to a local safety net system  [ Recorded presentation ]
Luella J. Penserga, MPH
9:24 AM"The Ingham Health Plan: Using Community Will to Create Coverage for the Uninsured"  [ Recorded presentation ]
Doak Bloss, BA
9:42 AMNavigating the economic and political environment to expand health coverage for the uninsured in Denver  [ Recorded presentation ]
Douglas L. Clinkscales
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Health Administration
Endorsed by:APHA-Committee on Women's Rights; Maternal and Child Health; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Socialist Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

The 132nd Annual Meeting (November 6-10, 2004) of APHA