141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

Home Events & Meetings Annual Meeting Schedule & Program

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

5191.0
Awareness and Education to Prevent and Manage Communicable Diseases: Local Strategies with Global Implications (Organized by HCWG)

Wednesday, November 6, 2013: 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Oral
This session will examine health communication strategies and initiatives designed to prevent and manage communicable diseases.
Session Objectives: Identify best practices to implement educational activities that seek to prevent and manage communicable diseases. Discuss anti-vaccine perceptions and their effects on health outcomes. Analyze strategies for successful promotion of preventive health behaviors.
Moderator:
Andrea Lowe, MPH, PhD

12:30pm
Learned lessons from implementation of California's policy on readability and suitability of written health education materials in a managed care setting   
Thanh Mai Dinh, MPH, CHES and Jorge Castañeda, MPH
     
  
12:45pm
Healthcare provider sharing/explaining and HIV-positive women's understanding of cancer health information about abnormal pap test results   
Lisa T. Wigfall, PhD, Shalanda Bynum, PhD, MPH, Daniela B. Friedman, PhD, Heather M. Brandt, PhD, CHES, Donna L. Richter, EdD, FAAHB, Saundra H. Glover, PhD, MBA and James R. Hebert, ScD
  
1:00pm
Implementation of communication strategies during pandemics: The case of the 2009 H1N1 influenza   
Anat Gesser-Edeslburg, PhD and Manfred S. Green, MSc, MBChB, MPH, PhD
     
1:15pm
Talk about testing: What sexual partners discuss in relations to STI status and why   
Margo Mullinax, Ph.D., MPH and Michael Reece, PhD, MPH
     
1:30pm
Associations between anti-vaccine beliefs and sources of health information   
Meghan Bridgid Moran, PhD, Lauren B. Frank, MHS, PhD, Sandra Ball-Rokeach, PhD and Sheila Murphy, PhD
     

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

Organized by: Public Health Education and Health Promotion
Endorsed by: International Health

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

See more of: Public Health Education and Health Promotion