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Session: Infant and Child Health: Data for Decision-making
3181.0: Monday, November 05, 2007: 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Poster
Infant and Child Health: Data for Decision-making
Learning Objectives: • Prioritize outreach workers activities within lead poisoning prevention programs. • Identify best known indicators for predicting lead poisoning. • Analyze the association between parent and child health behaviors to identify the influence of parents as role models. • Discuss the specific effect of poverty, as measured by low-income, on the physical health and quality of life among children in rich countries. • Construct an indicator of chronic poverty in childhood based on household income and country-specific low-income thresholds.
Organizer(s):Hani Atrash, MD, MPH
Karen Bell, MPH
Board 1Visual evaluations correlation with dust lead levels in homes
David Sentelle, BS, Robert Himmelsbach, BA, Peter Palermo, MS
Board 2National policy on hypothermia prevention among newborns in Ukrainian maternities
Alexander FIlippovich Golubov
Board 3Estimating prevalence of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in Oregon
Laurin J. Kasehagen, MA, PhD, J. E. Hutchinson, PhD, M. Ruhlin, RHIA, Lesa A. Dixon-Gray, MSW, MPH, C. A. Gallia, PhD, Kenneth D. Rosenberg, MD, MPH
Board 4Relationships among parent and child body composition, eating habits and physical and sedentary activities
Margaret O'Neil, PT, PhD, MPH, Patricia A. Shewokis, PhD, Rachel John, MPH, McKenzie Medeiros
Board 5Infant Hearing Loss: A summary of recent progress and challenges
Marcus Gaffney, MPH, John Eichwald, MA, Susanna Visser, MS
Board 6   Media exposure and children's health: Is excessive screen time associated with health risks?
Angelika H. Claussen, PhD, Melody Johnson Morales, PhD, Ruth Perou, PhD, Susanna Visser, MS
Board 7Compliance with RSV prophylaxis: A comparison between office and home settings
Caroline Ong Chua, MD, Vanessa V. Mercado, MD, Marvin Siegel, RN, Sergio G. Golombek, MD, MPH, FAAP
Board 8Poverty and health-related functional status of first-grade children in a Quebec birth cohort
Béatrice Nikiéma, MD, MSc, Louise Seguin, MD, MPH, Lise Gauvin, PhD
Board 9Getting Ready to Learn Program: An Early Intervention in Development & Learning
Rosa M. Avila, BA, Julie Baldwin, PhD
Board 10   Prevalence of birth defects in Oregon foster children
J. E. Hutchinson, PhD, Laurin J. Kasehagen, MA, PhD, Lesa A. Dixon-Gray, MSW, MPH, C. A. Gallia, PhD
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Maternal and Child Health
Endorsed by:Epidemiology; Socialist Caucus

The 135th APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 3-7, 2007) of APHA