141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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4057.0
Fostering Healthy Kids: Discussions on Health, Safety, and Nutrition in Child Care

Tuesday, November 5, 2013: 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Oral
This oral session includes presentations of tools, methods, and programs developed to improve children’s health in child care settings. Specifically, the national health and safety checklist, quality improvement in obesity prevention efforts, and promoting coordination between child care and medical homes will be explored.
Session Objectives: Describe the development and pilot of a national health and safety checklist for child care settings. Formulate quality improvement methods to address obesity in child care and early education settings. Identify strategies for effectively improving relationships and care coordination between primary health care providers and child care staff.
Moderator:
Lesley Cottrell, PhD
Organizers:
Jennifer Marshall, PhD, MPH and Chanda Nicole Holsey, DrPH, MPH

8:30am
Envisioning a healthy future for children: Role of integrated child development services and anganwadi workers in health education and malnutrition in Mumbai, India   
Divya Talwar, MPH, Wei-Chen Lee, PhD, Maggie Karli, BS, Gabriel Laguillo, BS and Priya Mathews, BS, BA
  
8:50am
National health and safety checklist: Development and pilot study   
Abbey Alkon, PhD, Roberta Rose, RN, PHN, Alicia Ross-Beck, PNP, PhD Student, Mimi Wolff, MSW, Richard Fiene, PhD, Susan Aronson, MD, Ann Kaskel, RN , MSN and Jonathan B. Kotch, MD, MPH
     
9:10am
Applying quality improvement methods to address obesity in early care and education (ECE) settings   
Allison Gertel-Rosenberg, MS
     
9:30am
Supporting healthy children: Building relationships and promoting care coordination between child care and the primary care medical home   
Rachel Sacks, MPH
     

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Maternal and Child Health
Endorsed by: Food and Nutrition, Socialist Caucus, Chiropractic Health Care

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)

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