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4272.0: Tuesday, November 06, 2007: 4:30 PM-5:30 PM | ||||
Poster | ||||
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| This session covers a range of timely domestic and international adolescent health issues, including: reproductive health; access to health services; and risktaking. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: Understand factors affecting the health of adolescents international, in particular in Africa. Recognize health care access disparities faced by special populations of adolescents. Understand how neighborhoods and families impact risk perception and risk taking by adolescents. Update understanding of adolescent reproductive health issues. | ||||
| Organizer(s): | Lacy M. Fehrenbach, MPH | |||
| Board 1 | Deaf older adolescents: Health care access disparities in an understudied population Elizabeth G. Finigan, MD | |||
| Board 2 | There's always Plan B: Adolescent knowledge, attitudes, and intention to use Emergency Contraception Alwyn T. Cohall, MD, Montsine Nshom, MPH, Andrea M. Nye, MPH | |||
| Board 3 | Evaluation of Abstinence Only Education Programs: Politics Make Strange Bed Fellows Darlene L. Shearer, DrPh, Sharon Bernecki DeJoy, MPH | |||
| Board 4 | Parental monitoring and sexual risk behaviors among African-American adolescents living in low-income neighborhoods Disa L. Cornish, MS, Natalie G. De La Cruz, MPH, CHES, Brad Lian, PhD, Lucy Annang, PhD, John Bolland, PhD | |||
| Board 5 | Engaging the faith-based community in non-sectarian service – abstinence-until-marriage peer education Marilyn Patton, RN, ND, Tom W. Briscoe, JD, MBA | |||
| Board 6 | Development of a school-based, youth development program for pregnant and parenting teens Joseph A. Dake, PhD, MPH, Joan Durgin, MEd, Timothy R. Jordan, PhD, MEd, James H. Price, PhD, MPH | |||
| Board 7 |  | Multilevel modeling approach to adolescent risk perception in the neighborhood setting Lynn Agre, MPH | ||
| Board 8 | Neighborhood effects and risk-taking behavior among South African adolescents and young adults Susan M. Lee-Rife, MHS, MA, Sarah A. Burgard, PhD | |||
| Board 9 | Sexual abuse experience among late adolescents in Sri Lanka: The role of gender and family-income Bilesha Perera, PhD, Truls Østbye, MD, PhD, Christopher Woods, MD, P.L. Ariyananda, MD, FRCP | |||
| Board 10 | Factors Affecting Kenyan Adolescents' Childbearing Desires Andrew M. Muriuki, PhD, Marjorie Sable, DrPH, MSW | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | ||||
| Organized by: | Maternal and Child Health | |||
The 135th APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 3-7, 2007) of APHA