141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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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

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Nutrition Disparities and Food Insecurity

Monday, November 4, 2013: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Oral
This session will address issues addressing age, race, gender, income, literacy, culture, location, and other factors; Food Deserts and Swamps (rural and urban); Strategies to address food insecurity; Food insecurity and obesity; etc.
Moderator:
Maya Maroto, EdD, MPH, RD

10:30am
Wisconsin food security project: Visualizing and accessing data on food access and the food security infrastructure in Wisconsin   
Judith Bartfeld, PhD and Amber Canto, MPH, RDN
     
10:50am
Food pantry intervention increases food security, diet quality and self-sufficiency: Results from an 18-month randomized control study   
Katie Martin, Ph.D., Michele Wolff, MPH, Angela Colantonio, BS, Rong Wu, MS and James Grady, DrPH
     
11:10am
Urban very low food-secure families experience similar demands, but have fewer assets to adapt compared to other food –insecure families   
Sonya Jones, Ph.D., Michael Burke, M.P.H., Carrie Draper, MSW, Darcy A. Freedman, Ph.D., Christine Blake, Ph.D., R.D., Angela Liese, PhD, Bethany A. Bell, PhD and Lauren Martini, MPH
     
11:30am
Pediatric obesity risk assessment in the preschool setting: Factor validation with spanish-speaking families   
Ruby Natale, Marilyn Townsend, PhD, Susan Uhlhorn, PhD and Sarah Messiah, Ph.D., MPH

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

Organized by: Food and Nutrition
Endorsed by: Medical Care, Socialist Caucus, Black Caucus of Health Workers

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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