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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
4280.0: Tuesday, November 12, 2002: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM | |||
Poster | |||
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| Learning Objectives: 1. Assess the influence of cultural components and environmental supports and barriers on food choices of young women. 2. Describe relevant themes that address cultural and historical implications of African American food and nutritional choices and assess that information as it pertains to the local community of interest. 3. Recognize and appreciate the importance of focus group discussions with an emphasis on community participation to inform the development of one's community based program in maternal and child health 4. Identify the prevalence of inadequate weight gain during pregnancy in thirteen states 5. Recognize that the prevalence of inadequate weight gain contributes to the occurrence of low weight births within each state 6. Discuss what can be done to prevent women from gaining an inadequate amount of weight during pregnancy. 7. Recognize and illustrate the importance of what we know about breastfeeding among premature infants 8. Recognize and illustrate the importance of the role of public and private interests in shaping breastfeeding policy and practice 9. Apply the knowledge of demographic, health, familial, socio-cultural and community factors related to breastfeeding among premature infants 10. Develop and complete a formal needs assessment of breastfeeding among premature infants in a defined catchment area. | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Hani K. Atrash, MD, MPH | |||
| Service model variation across Kansas Healthy Start Home Visitor program: Addressing population need through program modification Matthew D. Shepherd, PhD, Barbara E. Starrett, MHA | |||
| Perceptions of Young African American Women about Cultural and Environmental Influences on Healthy Eating: REACH 2010 Reducing Infant Mortality in Genesee County Srimathi Kannan, PhD, Charlene Acker, Elizabeth Tropiano, MS, Amy Thompson, RD, Holly Noble, RD | |||
| Effects of obesity before conception on maternal/infant outcomes: An underappreciated problem Richard J. Deckelbaum, MD, Marion Greenup, MEd, MPH, Diane Thompson, MPH, RD, Kellee Bartley | |||
| Pregnancy, Fasting and Religion in a Muslim Community Marlene D. Allison, RN, MPH, Makhmood Reznik | |||
| Withdrawn -- Weight-based teasing and associations with emotional well-being among adolescents Marla Eisenberg, ScD, MPH, Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, PhD, MPH, Mary Story, PhD RD | |||
| Inadequate Weight Gain: A multi-state analysis using 1997-1999 data from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) Chris S. Wells, MS | |||
| Almost exclusive breastfeeding and infant growth Laura Duckett, PhD, MPH, RN | |||
| Breastfeeding as a public health problem among preterm infants Rahel G. Hailemichael | |||
| Issues related to breastfeeding among urban mothers David Johnson, MPH, Gopal Narayan, MS, MPH | |||
| Pattern of breast – feeding and weaning practices in Benghazi – A community Health Study Ratan Singh, MD, Mailud Al-Amari, Mahesh Prashad Sharma, MD | |||
| A study to improve breastfeeding practices for child survival in tribal community of Jharkhand in India Anubha Ghose, DCH, MD, Sanjay Kumar, PhD | |||
| Organized by: | Maternal and Child Health | ||
| Endorsed by: | Epidemiology; Population, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health; Public Health Nursing; Socialist Caucus | ||
| CE Credits: | Nursing, Social Work | ||