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Featured Abstracts From the 19^th National Conference on Chronic Disease Prevention and Control

PE2GO: A Program to Address Disparities in Youth Physical Activity Opportunities
Maurice Martin, Sarah Martin, Elmer Ray Martin

Awareness of Cardiovascular Disease Risk in American Indians
Carrie Oser, Lynda Blades, Carol Strasheim, Steven Helgerson, Dorothy Gohdes, Todd Harwell

Race, Ethnicity, and Linguistic Isolation as Determinants of Participation in Public Health Surveillance Surveys
Michael Link, Ali Mokdad, Herbert Stackhouse, Nicole Flowers

Measuring Population Health Disparities: The Wisconsin County Health Rankings
Angela M. Kempf, Patrick L. Remington, Paul E. Peppard, Elizabeth A. Dranger, David A. Kindig

Colorectal Cancer Screening in Washington State: Predictors of Current Screening and Explanations for No Screening
Peggy Hannon, Jeffrey Harris, Diane Martin, Juliet VanEenwyk, Deborah Bowen

Educating California School Board Members: Aligning Policies for Student Health and Achievement
Peggy Agron, Victoria Berends

Adherence to Guidelines for Following Up Low-Grade Pap Test Results by Age and Race or Ethnicity
Vicki Benard, Herschel Lawson, Christie Eheman, Christa Anderson, William Helsel

VERB™ Campaign: Extending the Reach of a National Campaign to Ethnically Diverse Audiences
Rosemary Bretthauer-Mueller, Heidi Melancon

Racial Differences in Factors That Influence Survival With Oral Cancer in Georgia: 1978–2001
Ranjitha Krishna, Jonathan Liff, Amy Chen, Paul Eke, Valerie Robison

Eliminating Disparities in Communities of Color Through the Lifetime Fitness Program
Susan Snyder, Basia Belza

Developing a Rural Health Promotion Specialist Program to Provide Preventive Health Care to the Medically Indigent
Joy N. Maltese, Cary Brewton

Regional/Racial Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome: The MSM Regional Assessment Health Surveillance Study, 2003–2004
Cassandra Arroyo, Dennis Jones, Yong Liu, Rebecca Din-Dzietham, Sharon Davis

A Community-based Partnership to Address Barriers to Physical Activity in an African American Community
Marcus Plescia, Martha Groblewski

Getting the Most Out of Vital Statistics Data: Diabetes-related Heart Disease Mortality in New Mexico
Heidi Krapfl, Dorothy Gohdes, Janet Croft

Overcoming Barriers in Access to Specialized Health Care Services
Donna Russell Doran, Jeffrey Gold, Francis Serbaroli, Edward L. Hannan, Paul F. Macielak, William F. Streck

Reducing Dental Sealant Disparities in School-aged Children Through Better Targeting of Informational Campaigns
Kari Jones, Susan Griffin, Ramal Moonesinghe, Freder Jaramillo, Claudia Vousden

Engaging Older Adults to Be More Active Where They Live: Audit Tool Development
Melissa Kealey, Judy Kruger, Rebecca Hunter, Susan Ivey, William Satariano, Constance Bayles, Laura Brennan Ramirez, Lucinda Bryant, Courtney Johnson, Chanam Lee, David Levinger, Kathleen McTigue, Gwen Moni, Anne Vernez Moudon, Delores Pluto, Thomas Prohaska, Christen Sible, Sabrina Tindal, Sara Wilcox, Kendra Winters, Kathy Williams

Conducting a Successful “Through With Chew” Week
Sylvia Bagdonas, Niki Mueller, Amy Russian

Retooling an Osteoporosis Prevention Program to Serve Low-Income Populations: A Practical Guide to Bone Health
Denise Cyzman, Norma Bour, Rachel McLaury, Judith Lyles

Making the Grade on Women’s Health: A National and State-by-State Report Card 2004
Michelle Berlin, Judith Waxman

Response Shift: The Measurable and Desired Outcome of Chronic Disease Self-management Programs That Violates Pre–Post Assessment
Melanie Hawkins, Richard Osborne

Moving People to Move: Midpoint Results of the Walk the Ozarks to Wellness Project
Nikki M. Caito, Michael Elliott, Sarah Lovegreen, Paula Klump, Matthew W. Kreuter, Ross Brownson

Colorectal Cancer Screening Among Latinos From U.S. Cities Along the Texas–Mexico Border: A Qualitative Study
Maria E. Fernandez, Isabel Torres, Sally Vernon, Theresa Byrd, Marilyn Hinjosa-Lindsey, Rosario Wippold, Yadvindera Bains

Challenges to Measuring Health Care Disparities in the National Healthcare Disparities Report: Disparities in Data
Ernest Moy, Irma Arispe, Julia Holmes

An Alternative to Identifying and Engaging the Underserved, Out-of-Care, HIV High-Risk Population
Erum Khan Hadi, Sabrina Jaar-Marzouka, Trina Hiemke, Lisa Cardinale

Is Food Insecurity a Price of Smoking Among the Poor?
Brian Armour, M. Melinda Pitts, Chung-won Lee, Trevor Woollery, Ralph Caraballo

The Incidence of End-Stage Renal Disease in Georgia, 1999–2002
Karon Abe, Kristen Mertz, Kenneth Powell, Manxia Wu, Pyone Cho

Developing, Implementing, and Disseminating Evidence-based Healthy Aging Programs in Community-based Organizations
Nancy Whitelaw, Nancy Erckenbrack, Robert Schreiber, June Simmons, Nancy Wilson

Diabetes Awareness, Training, and Action Program: North Carolina’s Response to the Care of School Children With Diabetes Law
Paula Hudson Collins

Trying to Quit: Low-Income Smokers’ Access to Cessation Care in a Managed Care Environment
Millicent Fleming-Moran, Kaigang Li, Joseph Gibson, Miriam Garland