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, D.C., Oct. 29 - Nov. 2, 2011. Topics related to this year's theme, "Healthy Communities Promote Healthy Minds & Bodies," and in all areas related to chiropractic health care will receive high priority.
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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. The submission deadline is Feb. 8, 2011.
Abstracts must be submitted electronically through the APHA website: http://apha.confex.com/apha/138am/chc/papers/index.cgi
Program Planner Contact Information:
Michael Schneider, DC, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences
6035 Forbes Tower
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
(Tel) 412.383.6640; e-mail: mjs5@pitt.edu
Source: Chiropractic Health Care section of the APHA
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