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Recorded Annual Meeting Presentations (RAMP) are now available for purchase.
Only $90 for presenters, $140 for registered attendees and $200 for non-attendees.

Online Program

295814
Educationally Relevant Health Disparities and the Achievement Gap


Monday, November 4, 2013 : 11:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

Charles Basch, Ph.D., Health and Behavior Studies, Teachers College, Columbia University, NY, NY
     
An overview of educationally relevant health disparities that impact academic achievement. The presentation will also recommend strategies for shifting the paradigm of educational success.

Learning Areas:

Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs
Program planning
Public health or related organizational policy, standards, or other guidelines

Learning Objectives:
Define key educationally relevant health disparities that contribute to the achievement gap, particularly for urban minority youth among who the gaps are greatest.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the author of articles on educationally relevant health disparities that contribute to the achievement gap.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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