141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Online Program

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Best practices and lessons learned for increasing access to underserved populations

Monday, November 4, 2013: 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Oral
Learn about best practices and lessons learned for increasing access to underserved populations. Several methods for increasing access will be shared.
Session Objectives: Identify policy solutions for overcoming barriers faced by Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander small business owners and employees in accessing health insurance. Discuss how a cultural liaison model might operate in a community. Define participatory hotspotting.
Moderator:
Maurice Johnson, MPH

4:30pm
Using cultural liaisons to engage underserved communities in urban agriculture and community gardens in Minneapolis, Minnesota   
Vishwarupa Vasani, MPH, CHES, Kristen Klingler, MPH, CHES and Nadja Berneche
4:50pm
Integrating health system business and strategic planning with a faith-based network to improve community health   
Teresa Cutts, Ph.D. and Carol Weidenhoffer, BS
5:10pm
Marginalized populations in our own backyard: A care management program for disabled, chronically ill, Medicaid clients in a midwest metropolitan community   
Ruth Wetta, RN, PhD, MPH, MSN, Douglas Bradham, DrPH, MA, MPH and Philip Twumasi-Ankrah, PhD
  
5:30pm
Implementation of the affordable care act: Challenges for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander small business owners and employees   
Kathy Ko Chin, Iyanrick John, JD, MPH, Paulo Pontemayor, MPH*, Won Kim Cook, PhD, Priscilla Huang, JD and Doreena Wong, JD
     

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

Organized by: Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Endorsed by: Ethics SPIG, Health Administration, Medical Care, Oral Health, American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Caucus, Black Caucus of Health Workers, Caucus on Homelessness, Community Health Workers

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

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