Announcement of the Third National Conference on
Chronic Disease Prevention and Control
CDC and the Association of State and Territorial Health
Officials
will cosponsor the Third National Conference on Chronic Disease
Prevention and Control, titled "Putting Science Into Practice,"
October
19-21, 1988, at the Hyatt Regency Denver, in Denver, Colorado. The
conference is open to the public, and there will be no registration
fee.
The conference will build on the strategies identified by
participants at the First and Second National Conferences on
Chronic
Disease Prevention and Control. Those two conferences placed
particular
emphasis on the interactions among federal, state, and local health
departments; voluntary health agencies; professional organizations;
and
others.
This year's conference will include the following plenary
sessions:
Health Education/Mass Media Approaches for Changing Behaviors
Preventive Health Services in Primary Care Settings (including the
cost-
effectiveness of chronic disease prevention and control strategies)
Long-Term/Broad Strategic Issues for Public Health Chronic Disease
Control
Concurrent afternoon sessions will focus on breast cancer,
cervical
cancer, cholesterol/cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and smoking.
In
addition, the disproportionate burden of chronic diseases on
minority
and other underserved populations, a topic highlighted in last
year's
conference, will be covered as a part of the mainstream of this
year's
conference.
Additional information may be obtained by contacting Martha S.
Brocato, Division of Chronic Disease Control, Center for
Environmental
Health and Injury Control, Centers for Disease Control (F10),
Atlanta,
Georgia 30333; telephone: (404) 488-4251 or FTS 236-4251.
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