141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Online Program

3450.0
Innovations in international health

Monday, November 4, 2013: 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Oral
This session will discuss the examples of low cost innovations from diverse settings globally which have been important contributors to promote global health .
Session Objectives: List the advantages of innovations in promoting and imoproving public health globally.
Moderator:
Gopal Sankaran, MD, DrPH, MNAMS, CHES

4:30pm
Engaging providers in setting and using standards: Towards improving performance of postpartum intra-uterine contraceptive device (PPIUCD) services in India   
Saswati Das, Bulbul Sood, Somesh Kumar, Rashmi Asif, Vikas Yadav and Naresh Joshi
     
4:45pm
Addressing the consequences of war: A randomized controlled trial of a group intervention to improve emotion regulation, prosocial skills and functioning in war-affected youth   
Theresa Betancourt, ScD, MA, Ryan McBain, Elizabeth Newnham, PhD, Katrina Hann, Adeyinka Akinsulure-Smith, PhD, Robert Brennan, EdD, John Weisz, PhD and Nathan B. Hansen, Ph.D.
5:00pm
Evidence based scaling-up an innovative community-based maternal and newborn health strategy in Ethiopia   
Wuleta Betemariam, MA, MPH, Ali Mehryar Karim, PhD and Nebiyu Getachew, MA
     
5:15pm
An innovative approach to rural health care in Nepal: Combining community based primary health care, microfinance, and health insurance   
Biraj Karmacharya, MBBS, MSc, PhD, Annette L. Fitzpatrick, PhD, MA, Akina Shrestha, MPH, Sachita Shrestha, BPH, Prabin Shakya, BPH, Samita Giri, MPH, Chandra Yogal, BPH, Shrinkhala Shrestha, MPH, Roshan Mahato, BPH, Rajendra Koju, MD and Archana Shrestha, MPH

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

Organized by: International Health
Endorsed by: Medical Care

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