Posted on October 27, 2015

APHAThe Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) is honored to join health professionals at the 143rd American Public Health Association’s Annual Meeting and Exposition in Chicago, Illinois from November 1 – 4.

On November 4th, ADAO will present in the is the “New approaches to identifying and addressing health hazards” session to ” identify new approaches to recognize and prevent occupational hazards. Compare the traditional approaches with the new approaches in order to protect workers’ health. Discuss the benefits of alternative approaches.”

Moderator:
Michelle Fanucchi, PhD
10:30am
Self-Rated Health and Depression among Green Collar Workers: Job Demand-Control Pathways to Health
Sharon Christ, PhD, Alberto J. Caban-Martinez, PhD, DO, MPH, CPH, Manuel Cifuentes, MD, ScD, William G. LeBlanc, PhD, Kristopher L. Arheart, EdD, Cristina Fernandez, MSEd, Charles Chen, BS, Lora Fleming, MD, PhD and David Lee, PhD
Young worker fatalities Involving violations of the US child labor laws, 2001 – 2012: National study using data from the Census of Fatal Occupational Injury
Kimberly Rauscher, MA, ScD, Mary E Miller, MN, RN, Douglas Myers, ScD, MA and Brandy Brown, OTD , OTR/L

Developing Occupational Health and Safety Curriculum for Educational Enhancement for Family Medicine Residents
Preethi Pratap, PhD, Susan N. Buchanan, MD, MPH, Lisa Stevak and Maureen Gecht

An underestimated extra-pulmonary effect of silica dust exposure: Renal affection
Fahmy Charl Fahmy, Professor of Occupational Medicine and Ragaa El Gazzar, Professor of Occupational Biology

Asbestos Public Health Campaigns and Disease Prevention Movements in the 21st Century
Linda Reinstein

My presentation will examine 21st century national and international public health campaigns, their strategic storytelling, and the data shared to protect public health.  Highlighting health and safety campaigns in the USA, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Turkey, this session will enlighten attendees on new awareness and risk management trends in civil society, the private sector, and government. Using organizational experience, ADAO will also discuss cost-effective media strategies for coordinating successful educational, advocacy, and community public health campaigns that centralize educational information and resources, transition from one-sided messaging to public interaction, and empower workers and businesses to increase safety and compliance.

This year’s theme , Health in All Policies, is very important to ADAO.  As APHA describes, “The environments in which people live, work, learn and play have a tremendous impact on their health. Responsibility for the social determinants of health falls to many nontraditional health partners, such as housing, transportation, education, air quality, parks, criminal justice, energy, and employment agencies. Public health agencies and organizations will need to work with those who are best positioned to create policies (legal and regulatory) and practices that promote healthy communities and environments and secure the many co-benefits that can be attained through healthy public policy.”

To learn more about the program agenda, click here.

ADAO salutes the APHA for their leadership, innovation, and commitment to protecting public health.

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Together, change is possible.

Linda Reinstein

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