141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Online Program

5076.0
Culture and Language: Best Practices in Health Education and Promotion

Wednesday, November 6, 2013: 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Oral
The purpose of this session is share strategies in making research outcomes actionable and culturally appropriate. The translation of successful outcomes to practice and the success and sustainability of successful practices are dependent upon how the message is packaged, received and interpreted.
Session Objectives: Describe and compare strategies for linguistic and culturally appropriate health promotion interventions. Identify methods to make outcomes actionable.
Moderator:
Hung Le, Doctor of Pharmacy

8:30am
Improving pediatric asthma outcomes among immigrant communities in post-Katrina new orleans   
Stacey Denham, MSW, MPH, AE-C, Kristi Isaac Rapp, PharmD, AE-C, Leonard Jack, PhD, Msc, Candice Wilson, MPH, Margaret Sanders, MSEd, AE-C, Doryne Sunda-Meya, BS, Alfreda Porter, Pamela Dixon, Nancy Morris, PhD and Floyd Malveaux, MD, PhD
8:50am
Strategies to reach and implement the vision of health equity (STRIVE) project: Adapting and culturally tailoring evidence-based strategies for Asian americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islander communities   
Simona Kwon, DrPH, MPH, Ed Tepporn, Shilpa Patel, MPH, Pedro Arista, MPH, Catlin Rideout, MPH, Kathy Ko Chin, MS, Nadia Islam, PhD, Smiti B. Kapadia, MPH, Laura Wyatt, MPH and Chau Trinh-Shevrin, DrPH
     
9:10am
Speaking of language access: Interpreter requests and availability -- impact on patients' ratings of healthcare quality in a complex provider network, within a large and diverse Medicaid health plan, 2011   
S. Rae Starr, MPhil, MOrgBehav and Heidi Thompson, MA
     
  
9:30am
Overcoming language barriers in virtual dental home demonstration project sites   
Michelle Rosaschi, MPH, Maureen Harrington, MPH, Jesse Harrison-Noonan, BS, Paul Glassman, DDS, MA, MBA and Maysa Namakian, MPH
     

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

Organized by: Public Health Education and Health Promotion
Endorsed by: American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Caucus

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

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