The CHC section of APHA continues to move aggressively in our primary goal of membership recruitment with some measurable success thus far.  We are reaching out to all segments of the chiropractic community in an effort to heighten the profession's sensitivity to the national issues of public health.  Several members have made speaking engagements to the various colleges to promote awareness of chiropractic's role in the broad agenda of public health.  Our cry has been centered around the fact that the vertebral subluxation complex at any level of spinal involvement carries a measurable epidemiologic component that when assessed over a large segment of the population significantly impacts the nation's public health.

On an international note, I recently visited a European chiropractic conference where our section's past chair, Dr. Lisa Killinger, gave an enlightening presentation on the aging patient population and how the individual chiropractor must adjust his or her practice emphasis in making a meaningful impact to this growing segment of the American population.  This presentation was given at the annual conference of the European Chiropractic Union in Stockholm, Sweden.  I was truly enlightened by her professional abstract.

--Andrew Isaacs, DC