The APHA Chiropractic Health Care Section invites abstracts for presentation at the 2005 Annual Meeting to be held in New Orleans, Nov. 5-9, 2005.

Topics related to this year's theme, "Evidence-Based Policy and Practice," and in all areas related to chiropractic health care will receive high priority.

Other topics of interest include:
• Aging and Geriatric Health
• Back Pain
• Children's Health
• Chiropractic in the Changing Health Care Environment
• Complementary and Alternative Care for Selected Indications and Populations
• Enhancing the Provision of Preventive Services in Primary Contact and Primary Care Practice
• Ergonomics
• Headache
• Injury
• Integrative Health Care: Best Practices for Cross-disciplinary and Coordinated Care
• Minority Health
• Mulitdisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Practice
• Neck Pain
• Occupational Health
• Public Health Implications of Musculoskeletal Conditions
• Public Health Practices
• Teaching Public Health to Health Professions Students and Practicing Clinicians
• Underserved Populations
• Wellness
• Women's Health

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 developments; Programmatic reports of health professions curriculum developments or educational research; Structured 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. The abstract submission deadline is Feb. 7, 2005. Abstracts must be submitted electronically through the APHA Web site, <http://www.apha.org/meetings/>.

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