Submitted by Michael Schneider, DC, PhD

Chiropractic Health Care Section Program Chair

The Chiropractic Health Care Section of APHA has been busy planning for the 2011 APHA Annual Meeting that will take place Oct. 29 – Nov. 2 in Washington, D.C. Dr. Michael Schneider recently assumed the position as program chair, taking over the position from the past chair Dr. John Stites, and has been working with other CHC Section members to develop an exciting educational program for the 2011 Annual Meeting. Eighteen scientific abstracts have been accepted for oral presentations within the context of the following three sessions:

Innovation in public health education within the chiropractic colleges

Chiropractic research: A view from journal editors' desks

Claire Johnson, MSEd, DC, and Bart Green, MSEd, DC

Health promotion and prevention practice in chiropractic teaching clinics: A continuing study to find out if reviewing patient files reflect advice on health promotion

Rod Floyd, DC, MSPH, DrPH

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: A review and practice suggestions for manual therapists

Bart Green, MSEd, DC, Claire Johnson, MSEd, DC, Michael Rosenthal, PT, DSc, ATC, Jonathon Todd Egan, DC, MPH, and Marion Willard Evans, DC, PhD, CHES

Student and Faculty Attitudes and Behaviors toward Healthy Lifestyles in a CAM Educational Institution

Anupama Kizhakkeveettil, BAMS (Ayu), MAOM, and Kevin Rose, DC, MPH

Evaluating Student Abilities and Behaviors to Access Scientific Literature Following an Evidence-Based Practice Curriculum Intervention at a CAM Institution

Thomas Grieve, DC, Barbara Sullivan, PhD, Jerrilyn A. Cambron, DC, PhD, Christopher Wolcott, DC, Judy Pocius, MS, and Gregory Cramer, DC, PhD

Drugs and aging: An interdisciplinary patient-centered activity to enhance student knowledge and confidence in identifying and managing medication problems in elderly patients

Lisa Killinger, DC

Public Health and Chiropractic Care

Geographic Variations in Chiropractic Utilization under Medicare

James Whedon, DC

Geographical variation in the rates of use of chiropractic manipulation treatment in Northern New England

Karl Finison, MS, Amy Kinner and Gregory Merriman, MPH

Racial differences in pain management approaches in patients with osteoarthritis

Shibing Yang, MS, PhD candidate, Rachel Jawahar, Charles B. Eaton, MD, and Kate L. Lapane, PhD

“Public Health” in 5 major chiropractic journals: Analysis of search results in PubMed

Claire Johnson, MSEd, DC, and Bart Green, MSEd, DC

Chiropractic Care and Working with Ethnically Diverse Communities: Promising Implications for Public Health

Elton Holden, DC

Attitudes toward chiropractic care among the health care community in Ghana, Africa

Dana Madigan, Barbara Sullivan, PhD, and Nadine Peacock, PhD

Research: Current status and updates

Comparison of Health Counseling Scores of Chiropractic Patients Receiving Interprofessional Collaborative Care and Usual Care

Silvano Mior, DC, PhD

Complementary and Alternative therapy for chronic lower back pain in the Veteran's Health Administration: A review of the literature

Jason G. Napuli, DC, MBA, Jonathon Todd Egan, DC, MPH, and Rebekah Tho, BSC

Complementary and Alternative Medicine for the Treatment of Pain in Fibromyalgia: A Systematic Review

Michael Schneider, DC, PhD

Dose-Response for Chronic Low Back Pain: Long-Term Outcomes from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Mitchell Haas, DC, MA, Darcy Vavrek, ND, MS, David Peterson, DC, and Mikel Aickin, PhD

Costs of recruiting chronic lower back pain patients in two randomized controlled trials

Paul Dougherty, DC, Dorian Savino, MPA, and Lindsay Schaefer, MPA

Spinal manipulation for treatment of hypertension: A qualitative literature review

Kevin Mangum, Lester Partna, DC, and Darcy Vavrek, ND, MS

In addition to these presentations, the CHC Section has successfully networked with two other sections of APHA and will be co-sponsoring joint panel discussion sessions. The first joint session is entitled “Back Pain in the Work Place: Challenges, Prevention, Management, and Research”. This panel session will be moderated by Dr. Bart Green and will feature speakers from the chiropractic profession as well as speakers from the Occupational Health and Safety Section of APHA. The second joint session will be moderated by Dr. Will Evans and is entitled “Promoting health and preventing disease in clinical practice”. This joint panel discussion will feature speakers from the chiropractic profession as well as speakers from the Health Promotion and Health Education Section of APHA.

The annual business meetings of the CHC Section will take place on Sunday, Oct. 30, at  4 p.m., October 30th Monday at 6:30 p.m. at the APHA Annual Meeting. The scientific presentations and joint panel discussion sessions will be scheduled for Monday October 31. For more information about the upcoming program, please visit http://apha.confex.com/apha/139am/webprogram/CHC.html