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Dec. 17, Pittsburgh, Pa. – The
Chiropractic Health Care Section of the American Public Health Association
(APHA-CHC) invites abstracts for presentation at the 2011 Annual Meeting to be
held in Washington, DC, October 29 - November 2, 2011.
The
deadline for abstract submission is Monday, February 8, 2011. This call for
abstracts for the APHA-CHC scientific sessions requests papers that present:
- Original
empirical work (e.g. scientific studies, program evaluations, or organizational
case studies), or noteworthy advances in methodology or analysis;
- Innovative
integrative scholarship and scientific work;
- Programmatic
reports of significant research infrastructure development;
- Programmatic
reports of health professions curricular development or educational research;
Substantive policy analyses (e.g. systems-wide assessments or policy
case-studies);
- Informative
reports on program or project management and development;
- Other similarly noteworthy, innovative, or informative
reports and studies.
An
author's paper may not have been presented or published prior to its
presentation at the annual meeting. All presenters must become individual
members of APHA and must register for the annual meeting to make their presentation.
All presenters must provide, an abstract free of trade and/or commercial
product names, at least one measurable single learning objective and a signed
Conflict of Interest form with a relevant qualification statement. The abstract
is limited to 250 words.
Topics
related to this year's theme, "Healthy
Communities Promote Healthy Minds and Bodies", and in all areas
related to chiropractic health care will receive high priority.
Other
topics of interest include:
- Musculoskeletal pain as a public
health priority
- Chiropractic care and community
health promotion
- Policy, regulation, comparative
and cost effectiveness
- Innovation in public health
education within the chiropractic colleges
- Non-surgical and
non-pharmacological treatments for musculoskeletal pain
- Health education and promotion:
Interventions to prevent or reduce the recurrence of back pain
- Interdisciplinary approaches to
improving community health
- Biopsychosocial aspects of
musculoskeletal pain
- Research: Current status and
updates I
- Research: Current status and
updates II
Abstracts
must
be submitted electronically through
the APHA website at
http://apha.confex.com/apha/138am/chc/papers/index.cgi
Please direct any questions or comments to Michael Schneider, DC, PhD,
assistant professor, School of Health and
Rehabilitation Sciences, University
of Pittsburgh, (Tel) 412.383.6640 e-mail:
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