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Session: Real Work in Real Communities
4314.0: Tuesday, November 9, 2004: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
Oral
Real Work in Real Communities
Health education and health promotion activities to address community health problems should include and engage community members - "meet them where they're at." The panelists in this session will describe various interventions designed to reach community members in their own communities to address a range of health problems.
Learning Objectives: At the end of this session, participants will be able to describe health promotion activities that engage community members at community sites, in accordance with the learning objectives of each individual presentation.
Moderator(s):Michelle Chuk, MPH
4:30 PMImproving the health of minorities: Empowering community-based minority groups to partner with local health departments  [ Recorded presentation ]
Carlessia A. Hussein, RN, Dr PH, Arlee W. Gist, BA
4:48 PMBring a health professional to the people day: A community outreach strategy for mobilizing African American barber shops and beauty salons as health promotion sites  [ Recorded presentation ]
Mario Browne, BS, CAC, Victoria Garner, BS, Raymond A. Howard, MBA, Karen L. Reddick, MA, Candice Williams, BA, Rachael J. Berget, MEd, Veronica Sansing, BS, Maya Gist, BA, Devon Taliaferro, Angela Ford, MSW, Edgar Duncan, PhD, Stephen B. Thomas, PhD
5:06 PMOutreach on Wheels: Health Informatics and Literacy Training for a Low-Income Community in Washington, DC  [ Recorded presentation ]
Stacey Beth Downey, MA, Karyn Pomerantz, MPH, MLS, Eduardo Pezo, MPH
5:24 PMPreventing glaucoma through an innovative community health education and promotion model: The Family Van
Nancy E. Oriol, MD, Rainelle White, Toni K. Williams, Erica B. McAuliffe-Esrick, MD, Harsha S. Reddy, MD, Alba Cruz, PhD, MPH, Mark Zorn, OD, PhD
5:42 PMUsing a card game as a community education intervention: The "Germinator" experience  [ Recorded presentation ]
Amyanne Wuthrich-Reggio, BS, CHES, Wendi Morales, BS, Jacqueline Williamson, MS, Matthew H. Samore, MD, Amiee Maxwell, BS, Katherine Sebastian, BA, Bassam Haddadin, MPH, Scott Engelstad, BSN
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Public Health Education and Health Promotion
Endorsed by:Caucus on Public Health and the Faith Community; Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Community-Based Public Health Caucus; Public Health Nursing
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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