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

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Building blocks for evidence-based environmental policy

Wednesday, November 6, 2013: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Oral
Moderator:
William Scheider, PhD Epidemiology & Community Health

10:30am
Using niehs research to promote environmental health among state legislators   

Doug Farquhar, JD and David Osterberg, MS, MA
     
10:50am
State role in environmental policy development: Case studies from “cancer alley”   

Mary A. Fox, PhD, MPH and Thomas A. Burke, PhD, MPH
     
11:10am
Geographic information systems and weighted cumulative impact scoring: A model for quantifying potential health impacts   

John Prochaska, DrPH, MPH, Alexandra Nolen, PhD, MPH, Rob Buschmann, MPP, Elizabeth Fuller, DrPH, Erin Ruel, PhD, Holly Avey, PhD, MPH, Deirdre Oakley, PhD, James E. Dills, MUP, MPH and Michelle Rushing, MPH
     
11:30am
Using focus groups in a health impact assessment to understand social factors influencing health   

Rob Buschmann, MPP, John Prochaska, DrPH, MPH, Elizabeth Fuller, DrPH, Erin Ruel, PhD, Deirdre Oakley, PhD and Alexandra Nolen, PhD, MPH
     

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

Organized by: Environment
Endorsed by: Medical Care, Socialist Caucus, Community Health Planning and Policy Development

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

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