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The Use of Evidence-Based Programs for Developing Cancer Control Programs |
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Patient Empowerment Through Disease Self-Management |
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| Charity Lower MPH |
Sidney Liang MPA
Barbara Glass RN |
| More Federal funders are now requiring program planners to use evidence-based programs (EBPs) that have been evaluated, implemented with a specific group and found to be effective. Examine specific EPB issues: advantages of adopting EPBs, how to choose an EBP with potential for success in the community, how to modify the program to meet unique audience characteristics, evaluating success of the program. |
This discussion will focus on the abilities of the Cambodian people to establish positive change in their health by learning the basic concepts and tools of chronic disease self-management. Through the use of two distinct programs, Advocacy and Group Self Management sessions, patients learn, adopt, and make use of the basic concepts of creating positive change in their health behaviors and in their lives. |
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Many Partners Make for Powerful Change: The Community Health Worker Initiative of Boston |
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| B6 |
State Policy to Address Health Disparities in Southern New England: A Progress Report |
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Roxanne Reddington-Wilde PhD
Cindy Marti MA
Ann Withorn PhD
Rachel Goodman MA |
M. Barton Laws PhD, MA
Georgia M. Simpson May MS
Carrie Bridges MPH
Nancy E. Berger MPH |
| The partnership is focused on sustaining CHW jobs, improving their wages and developing genuine career pathways through career coaching, educational attainment and systematic policy change of funding conditions. The Initiative’s director and partners will discuss key factors in building the Initiative and engage in a spirited dialogue to explore how other health professions and disparities can be addressed through complex, effective partnerships. |
Officials responsible for coordinating minority health initiatives will discuss the significance of these developments, and their political and social context. The topics to be covered include: health care reform legislation elements that focus on health disparities; internal integration and external dissemination of the state’s CLAS Standards initiative, including assessments and outcomes to date; and Health Disparities Grants to community based organizations and their local impacts in Massachusetts. In addition, Rhode Island will share their community benefits and charity care regulations; applications for Certificate of Need; state purchasing options; and statewide initiatives to implement the CLAS Standards. Connecticut will discuss effecting integration and collaboration of efforts to address health disparities in the state; development of a state awareness campaign; the process and outcomes of assessing cultural competency training initiatives and opportunities; and an integrated approach for advancing workforce development. The panel moderator will discuss developments in the broader context of state policy nationally and evolving federal policy.
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What Makes a Neighborhood Healthy? Building Innovative Partnerships to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Heart Disease and Stroke |
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Best Practices for Community Advisory Boards |
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Deborah N. Pearlman PhD
Patricia Affleck MSM |
Ester R. Shapiro, PhD
Speshal Walker, PhD candidate, UMASS
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| An evaluation of the project’s first year will describe barriers and successes in: forming cross-organizational linkages across the partnering agencies, creating a referral system for linking project participants to medical and community services, and identifying, implementing, and evaluating policy and environmental changes that will sustain the partnership beyond initial funding. |
Community-Based Participatory Research is a process that involves community-academic partnerships in which community members and/or recipients of interventions are involved in all phases of the research process. During this presentation, participants will be introduced to The Healthy Options, Research, Interventions & Community Organizing Center, an NIH P20 Exploratory Center. |
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Health Disparities and Discrimination Experienced by Immigrants and Refugees in New Hampshire |
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Chris Smith MA
Thandekile Tshabangu-Soko MS, MPH
Cecilia Tamayo-Creamer PhD |
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The session will focus on two studies of immigrants and refugees in New Hampshire: one to document health disparities among Latin Americans, Africans, Russians and Bosnians in southern NH; one to study social adjustment of Latin Americans and Africans from 18 different countries. Views of mental health and therapy were also explored.
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