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Session: APHA-Student Assembly Late Breaker
5030.0: Wednesday, November 07, 2007: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
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APHA-Student Assembly Late Breaker
This session includes presentations on current student research. Topics include health professions training programs and their role in community health centers, intimate partner violence, perceptions of STI testing during routine gynecological care, acceptance of early abortion services in primary care settings, and sexual risk behaviors among orphans and non-orphans in Tanzania.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) will be able to: 1. List the top benefits and challenges of community health center participation in health professions training programs; 2. Describe the prevalence of non-fatal intimate partner violence (IPV) for females; 3. Discuss young women's understanding of sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing as provided during routine gynecologic care; 4. Assess the opinions of women about their primary care physicians offering early pregnancy termination services; 5. Identify individual and community level factors which appear to enhance risk or confer protection as regards risk behaviors of adolescents.
Organizer(s):Kristy A. Siegel, MPH, CHES
Moderator(s):Lauren S. Hughes, MPH
8:30 AM   Health professions training programs: Evaluation of their role in community health centers
Lauren S. Hughes, MPH
8:45 AM   Prevalence of intimate partner violence among urban, suburban, and rural females
Penelope J. Baughman, MPA, MPH, Ekta Choudhary, MS, MPH, Jeffrey Coben, MD, Robert M. Bossarte, PhD
9:00 AM   An exploratory study: Perceptions of STI testing during routine gynecologic care
Sara Head, MPH, Richard A. Crosby, PhD, Gregory Moore, MD, MPH
9:15 AM   Acceptance of Early Abortion Services in Primary Care Settings: A Comparison of Abortion Clinic and Family Medicine Patients in Chicago
Erica J. Smith, BS, Emily Godfrey, MD, MPH, Susan Rubin, MD
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:APHA-Student Assembly
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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