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

3230.0
Establishing evidence for community health planning, policy and advocacy through approaches

Monday, November 4, 2013: 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Oral
With shrinking budgets, it is essential to plan, design and implement effect, evidence based programs. The evidence based can be build through partnerships between city agencies, non-profit organizations, neighborhood associations local businesses, and education. Learn what successful approaches and interventions to support innovative programs.
Session Objectives: Identify needs for financial products tailored to Community-based organizations. Explain the value of quantitative health assessment data in a hospital-driven community priority-setting process. Discuss how to use the domain-specific disparity indices to help community-based programs (e.g., CTG) identify effective intervention strategies.
Moderator:
Tahra Johnson, MPH, CWWS

12:30pm
Nuestros tesoros and their unmet capital needs: A survey of the capital needs generated by the economic downturn on hispanic community‐based organizations   
Adolph Falcon, MPP
     
12:50pm
Decomposing geographic disparities in health and health behaviors to inform community interventions   
Wenjun Li, PhD, Mariana Arcaya, ScD, MCP, Bonnie Andrews, MPH, CPH and Thomas Land, PhD
     
1:10pm
Evidence: What is it and does it matter?   
Bridget Catlin, PhD, Alison Bergum, MPA and Jennifer Russ, MPA
     
1:30pm
Role of quantitative community health assessment data in selecting regional health priorities in a federally-required community health needs assessment   
Melanie Payne, MPH, Sunny Lee, MPH, Maya Bhat, MPH and Kimberly Repp, PhD, MPH
     
  

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

Organized by: Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Endorsed by: Black Caucus of Health Workers, Community-Based Public Health Caucus

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

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