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CCC Health Hour • July 2004
See it on ACN Channel 80 or on the web at http://www.cccsat.org/
Although the broadcasts are being presented free of charge, please register with CCCSAT if you plan on watching an event.
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Starting Friday, July 2nd

9:00 - 10:00am

 

Getting Media Attention for Prevention Efforts
This broadcast is for anyone interested in learning about how to use the media more effectively to publicize positive prevention efforts. Topics include how to select appropriate uses of different media, how to reach a target audience through use of media and tips for constructing interesting and publishable stories.

 
10:00 - 11:00am

Obesity in Children
Dr. Margaret Wooten will explore how advertising, food industry PR campaigns, restaurant foods, portion sizes, food pricing, school environments, television and transportation policy encourage eating too much and discourage moving. The session will outline promising policy and environmental approaches to make healthier choices easier.
Rebroadcast: Wednesday, July 28th, 2:30-3:30pm

 
11:00am - 12:00pm Avoiding Metabolic Complications in the Treatment of Bipolar Disorder
Rebroadcast: Friday, July 9th, 11am-12pm
Wed., July 14th, 5:00-6:00pm
 
Starting Wednesday, July 7th
2:30 - 4:00pm

Clinical Viewpoints - Cholestrol Reduction: How Low Should We Go
This Program will address the ongoing debate about cholesterol goals and how agressive physicians should be in lowering cholesterol in their patients at risk for cardiovascular disease. The broadcast will also evaluate current management strategies for cholesterol lowering including the use of combination therapy, especially in refractory patients.
Rebroadcast: Wed. July 14th, 2:30-4:00pm; Wed. July 21st, 4:30-6:00pm; Fri. July 30th, 10:00-11:30am

 
4:00 - 6:00pm

Obesity and Family Planning: Reproductive Health Impacts
Overweight and obesity are major contributors to many chronic diseases. The focus of this program is the effect of obesity as it relates to women's reproductive health and what the health care worker's role is in prevention and/or recommendations for weight loss.

Rebroadcast: Wed., July 28th, 3:30-5:30pm

 
Starting Friday, July 9th
9:00 - 11:00am

Managing Diabetes with a Healthy Diet
Participants in this program will learn how to assist their clients in making healthy food choices and implement changes in their lives. Other topics include the differences between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, menu planning, and the importance of physical activity as management tool.

 
Starting Wednesday, July 14th
4:00 - 5:00pm Real View Mirror - Looking at Your Future, Leaving the Drug Culture Behind
Club Drugs and Raves will examine how drug use and violence are associated with "alcohol free" raves, how to identify common designer drugs and paraphernalia, and identify current trends in today's drug culture. Part 2, Marijuana, will explore common theories, perceptions and misconceptions teens have about marijuana, the effects of marijuana on the body and raise awareness of drug normalization and desensitization by the drug culture.
 
Starting Friday, July 16th
9:00 - 10:00am

Improving Male Participation in Reproductive Health

 
10:00am - 11:00am

Rapid Cycling Bipolar Disorder: The Role of Atypical Antipsychotics
This program will explore the questions surrounding the use of atypical antipsychotics in Bipolar Disorders with rapid cycling.

 
11:00am - 12:00pm The New A.R.T. of Psychiatry: Awareness, Recognition, and Treatment of Metabolic Issues in the Severely Mentally Ill Patient
Under the educational paradigm proposed by NEI, the following dimensions of the new ART of psychiatry are presented: A: Awareness of the medical co-morbidities commonly seen in schizophrenia R: Recognition of the co-morbidities through monitoring T: Treatment -- going beyond to treat the whole patient.
   
Starting Wednesday, July 21st
2:30 - 3:30pm

The New Decade of Antidepressant Treatment: Widening the Scope of Efficacy Beyond Serotonin


3:30 - 4:30pm Depression: The Treatment Resistant Phase of Bipolar Disorder
Presenter: Mark Rapaport, MD, Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center This program will examine what is meant by treatment resistant depression, strategies utilized to treat this difficult patient population and emerging data that suggests atypical antipsychotics may have a role in managing treatment resistant depression.
Rebroadcast: Friday, July 30th, 9:00-10:00am
 
Starting Friday, July 23rd
9:00 - 11:00am Parkinson's Disease
 
11:00am - 12:00pm

Tobacco Prevention and Control: Using Evidence Based Strategies to Save Lives and Resources
This program focuses on current trends in building sustainable local efforts to prevent and control tobacco use, identifying evidence based interventions and reasons to use the Community Guide as a primary source for evidence based public health practice.

 
 
For further program information, visit www.phppo.cdc.gov/PHTN//calendar.asp
 

CCC-Health Hour
Wednesdays 2:30 - 5:30pm • Fridays 9:00am - Noon


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    Windows Media Player (v. 6.4 or higher) Sound card
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