141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Online Program

5042.0
Social Determinants of Health III (Social and Behavioral Epidemiology)

Wednesday, November 6, 2013: 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Oral
Members will gain an understanding of neighborhood characteristics and city level economic distress can impact individual and community health.
Session Objectives: Discuss the importance of understanding the mechanisms through which neighborhood characteristics may impact individual health. Describe the relationships between neighborhood economic deprivation, neighborhood problems, neighborhood social cohesion, and individual health. Define avoidable mortality. Articulate the relationship between city-level economic distress and avoidable mortality.
Moderator:
Kathleen Brown, PhD, MPH, CHES

8:30am
Introductory Remarks
8:38am
Homeless health and access to healthcare in urban settings – a social epidemiology   
Azizur Molla, M.P.H., Ph.D. and Sweta Basnet
     
8:56am
Pathways linking neighborhood socioeconomic context to self-rated health in African americans in houston, TX   
Larkin L. Strong, PhD, MPH, Jian Wang, PhD, Israel Christie, PhD, Seann D. Regan, MA, Luisa Franzini, PhD, David W. Wetter, PhD, Lorraine R. Reitzel, PhD and Lorna H. McNeill, PhD, MPH
     
9:14am
Nativity and allostatic load among non-hispanic blacks   
Laurén Doamekpor, MPH and Gniesha Dinwiddie, PhD
     
9:32am
City-level economic distress, race, and avoidable mortality   
Diana Silver, PhD MPH, Tod Mijanovich, PhD and Margaret Giorgio, PhD MPH
9:50am
Concluding Remarks

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

Organized by: Epidemiology
Endorsed by: Ethics SPIG, Medical Care, Mental Health, Socialist Caucus, Chiropractic Health Care

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