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

3172.0
Bridging the Communication Gap: Linguistically and Culturally Synchronized Health Promotion and Education Practices

Monday, November 4, 2013: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Oral
This session will list strategies for software interfacing with regard to health care services within community settings.
Session Objectives: Discuss lessons learned and strategies for implementing culturally and linguistically appropriate services standards in community settings. Describe how patient narratives can be used as a tool to support health behavior change. Discuss a new application of the Diffusion of Innovations theory.
Moderator:
Henry Montes

10:30am
Implementation of CLAS standards to meet the needs of at-risk populations in Massachusetts   
Ranjani Paradise, PhD, Jennifer Bennet, BA, Caterina Hill, MSc, Stacey King, MS, Sue Schlotterbeck, MS, RD, LD and Elisa Friedman, MS
     
10:50am
Community-based health promoters as change agents: Culturally-appropriate strategies for hygiene behavior modification in a rural salvadoran setting   
Elizabeth Andrade, DrPH, MPH, Mark Edberg, PhD, MA, Marie Hoffman, MPH, Tilly Gurman, DrPH, MPH, Maria Luisa Avalos, David Antonio Interiano and Doris Arminda Alfaro
     
11:10am
We're not low income latinos - we are rural mexicans living in san jose, California: Implications for health education when priority populations define themselves   
Kathleen M. Roe, DrPH, MPH, Maziel Giron, MPH, Robert RInck, MPH, Arcadi Kolchak, MPH(c) and Stephanie Chand, BS(c)
     
11:30am
This is my life, inspiring thoughts for stroke survivors: Patient narratives in the deserve intervention   
Veronica Torrico, MA, Leigh Quarles, MPH, CPH, CHES, David Huffman, MA, Eric Keith and Bernadette Boden-Albala, MPH, DrPH
     

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

Organized by: Public Health Education and Health Promotion
Endorsed by: Food and Nutrition, Community Health Workers

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

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