141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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5125.1
Disparities of services utilization by attitude, environment, and geography

Wednesday, November 6, 2013: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Oral
Session Objectives: Demonstrate geographic variations among kinds of health care services Describe the importance of language competence in health care communications Explain influence of religious attitudes for patient care
Moderator:
Raymond Fang, MSC, MASC

10:30am
Application of qualitative methods to determine parents' and providers' perceptions and attitudes of patient-centered decision-making in the pediatric intensive care unit   
Rita Burke, PhD, MPH, Ellen Iverson, MPH, Rick Harrison, MD, Christopher Newth, MD and Jeffery Upperman, MD
     
10:45am
Cancer survivors' knowledge of personalized medicine diagnostics   
Nelson Atehortua, PhD MPH, Mo Yang, MSc and Amalia M. Issa, PhD, MPH
     
11:00am
Relationship between religiosity and health care utilization among Israeli Jews   
Shuli Brammli-Greenberg, PhD, Ephraim Shapiro, PHD, MPA, MBA and Jacob Glazer, PhD
     
11:15am
Language barriers and diabetes care among urban, underserved Latinos in a teaching hospital in northern California   
Claudia Chaufan, MD, PhD, Catherine Chesla, RN, PhD, FAAN, Hegla Fielding, R.N. MA and Alicia Fernandez, MD
     
11:30am
Does neighborhood income predict emergency department visits?   
Lisa Lines, MPH and Arlene Ash, PhD
     

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

Organized by: Medical Care

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

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