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Session: Protecting our Children
4313.0: Tuesday, November 9, 2004: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
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Protecting our Children
Protecting children's health encompasses not only specific interventions, such as education around sun safety, but also providing and assuring access to care through insurance programs. The panelists in this session will describe programs that intervene to promote healthy children throughout at various levels throughout their childhoods.
Learning Objectives: At the end of this session, participants will be able to describe programs designed to protect children's health, from improving access to care to research on urban teens' sexual behaviors, in accordance with the learning objectives of each indivual presentation.
Moderator(s):Louise Villejo, MPH, CHES
4:30 PMChoosing The Healthy Path: Using an innovative learning map to increase enrollment of uninsured chidren on Detroit's eastside into state insurance programs  [ Recorded presentation ]
Richard L. Lichtenstein, PhD, Ellen Lopez, PhD, Alonzo Lewis, MHSA, Rev. Rochelle Allen, MPA, Penni Johnson, Scherry Riley, Cheryl Lewis
4:48 PMDeveloping a health promotion program in Philadelphia on reducing the risk of SIDS
Heidi Worley, MA, Karen J. Pollack, MSW
5:06 PMMultimedia sun protection education for preschoolers: Adventures with the Shady Characters™ and SunSafeCentral.com™  [ Recorded presentation ]
Amelia J. Birney, MPH, CHES, Susan G. Brink, DrPH, Catherine A. Prahl, Marguerite E. Beckley, CHES
5:24 PMIt’s Your Game…Keep It Real: Feasibility of An Innovative Multimedia HIV/STI and Pregnancy Prevention for Middle School Youth
Nicole McKirahan, MPH, Ross Shegog, PhD, Christine M. Markham, PhD, Melissa A. Fleschler, MS, Charlie Coton, BA, Elizabeth Chapman, Barbara J Low, DrPH, Dana Hurt, MPH, Kiara Spooner, MPH, Susan Tortolero, PhD
5:42 PMRisk reduction practices by urban teens: Are there correlations across sexual and dietary behaviors?
Carol Roye, EdD, CPNP, Paula L Perlmutter, MPH, Arlene Spark, EdD, RD
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Public Health Education and Health Promotion
Endorsed by:Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Maternal and Child Health; Public Health Nursing; School Health Education and Services
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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