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

5078.0
Utilizing Media and Communication to Address Cardiovascular Illness and Obesity (Organized by HCWG)

Wednesday, November 6, 2013: 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Oral
This session will explore innovative health communication initiatives designed to improve cardiovascular health and obesity rates.
Session Objectives: Describe the development, implementation, and evaluation of health communication activities designed to reduce cardiovascular illness and obesity. Discuss the challenges associated with health communication activities designed to reduce cardiovascular illness and obesity. Analyze how to implement these activities alongside partners and other stakeholders.
Moderator:
Andrea Lowe

8:30am
Evaluation of the healthy weight collaborative   
Cara Orfield, MPP, Margaret Hargreaves, PhD, MPP, Charlotte Cabili, MPH, Michaela Vine, MPH and Todd Honeycutt
     
8:45am
Parental perception of child bodyweight and health: Evidence from 309 vulnerable Mexican-American families in south Texas   
Dejun Su, PhD, Terry Huang, Ph.D., MPH, CPH, Renaisa S. Anthony, MD, MPH, Athena Ramos, MS, MBA, CPM and Drissa Toure, MD, MPH
9:00am
Project healthy schools: Increasing heart healthy behaviors in middle school students through school and community collaboration   
Jean DuRussel-Weston, RN MPH CHES, Lindsey Rose Mitchell, MPH, Susan Aaronson, RD, Nicole Corriveau, BS, Caren S. Goldberg, MD and Kim A. Eagle, MD
     
9:15am
Addressing childhood obesity and physical inactivity through a health curriculum designed for and by a community soccer league   
Isaac Koh, MPH, Jessica Nguyen, MPH (c), Lilian Correa, MPH (c), Katie Dambrun, MPH, Tina Pruna, MPH, Eddy Jara, DrPH, Juan Carlos Belliard, PhD, MPH, Thelma Gamboa-Maldonado, DrPH, MPH, MCHES and Helen Nguyen, MPH
     
9:30am
Body mass index screening letter study - phases I and II   
Donna Kephart, MHA, Jennifer Kraschnewski, MD, MPH, Jody McCullough, AA and Barbara Blatt, M.Ed.
     
  

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Organized by: Public Health Education and Health Promotion

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

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