APHA Papers Highlight Prevention, Costs, and Racial Disparities
Presentations at the 127th Annual Meeting of the APHA
RTI researchers have 27 presentations at the 129th annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, October 21-25, 2001, Atlanta.
Topics include substance abuse prevention and treatment, epidemiology and costs of diabetes, disease prevention, tobacco control interventions, health care cost management, safe-schools policies, racial differences in health care and disease prevention, and research methods such as web-enabled surveys, audio computer-assisted self-interviewing, geographic information systems.
Titles, schedules, and short abstracts of these presentations are posted on RTI's web site, http://www.rti.org.
For more information about any presentation, please contact Reid Maness, Public Affairs Director, [email protected], 919-541-7044. Or, please visit exhibit booth number 811.
Titles include:
Health Status and Substance Use of White and African-American Patients and Services Provided in Methadone Treatment: Results from a National Study
Availability and utilization of special services for women in methadone treatment: Results from a national study
Forecasts of Diabetes in the United States from 2000 to 2050: Results from a Markov Model
Medical Costs Associated with Diabetes in the U.S.: Forecasts
Interventions for At-Risk Minority Substance-Abusing Women
Violence, Homelessness, and HIV Risk Among Crack-Using African-American Women
Efficacy of a Woman-Focused, Afrocentric Intervention on Reducing Crack Use and Sexual Risk Among Crack-Using African-American Women
Adolescent Smoking Uptake and Perceptions of Risk, Smoking Imagery, and the Tobacco Industry
Geo-Analysis of National HIV Prevention Services
Influences on HIV Stigma: A National U.S. Web-Based Survey
Implementation of Wisconsin's BadgerCare Program: Insurance for
Conducting Community Substance Abuse Prevention Resource Assessments in Two States
Middle School Teacher Training Practices for Substance Use Prevention
Implementing Federal Substance Abuse Prevention Policy in Our Nation's Schools
Enhancing Inferences About Workplace Substance Abuse Programs
Findings from the Cross-Site Analysis of the Workplace Managed Care (WMC) Substance Abuse Prevention and Early Intervention Initiative
Development of a Multilingual Survey Instrument in Audio Computer-Assisted Self-Interviewing (ACASI)
Development of a Survey to Assess Youth Empowerment within the Context of Tobacco Control
What Youth Have to Say About Empowerment: Findings from Focus Groups with Youth to Define Youth Empowerment Within the Context of Tobacco Control
Are There Race Differences in Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) Exposure Among U.S. Adolescents? The 2000 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS)
Truth and Videotapes: Reaction to Truth Campaign Ads by Smoking Status
Challenges to Employability: Substance Use Among the North Carolina Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Population
The Health and Economic Benefits of California's Tobacco Control Program
Racial Disparities in Health Service Use Among Medicaid Pregnant Women: Multi-State Analysis
Immunization Standing Orders Program (SOP) Project: Cost and Cost-Effectiveness of Alternative Immunization Programs in Long-Term Care Facilities (LTCFs)
Design and Challenges of the Safe Schools, Healthy Students (SS/HS) National Evaluation
A National Snapshot of the Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS) Sites
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