The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA

Session: Policy, politics and the health of mothers and children
4277.0: Tuesday, November 12, 2002: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
Poster
Policy, politics and the health of mothers and children
Learning Objectives: 1. Articulate the reasons for the development of the White Ribbon Alliance and describe the development and expansion of the WRA worldwide 2. Identify reasons why parents have been unable to obtain health insurance for uninsured Latino children. 3. Recognize that the parents of uninsured children want better information about programs, eligibility, and the application process, and a more efficient, user-friendly system. 4. List an alternative SCHIP outreach strategy acceptable to parents for insuring uninsured children 5. Develop a better understanding of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. 6. Identify alternative arrangements for parental leave that are more expansive than the federal law. 7. Examine economic and political factors related to state adoption of paid parental leave.
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organizer(s):Hani K. Atrash, MD, MPH
Board 1Evaluating the impact of programs to increase voluntary HIV testing among pregnant women
Stephanie L. Sansom, PhD, MPP, MPH, Yvonne A. Maldonado, MD, Juan D. Ruiz, MD, DrPH
Withdrawn -- Prevalence of gender-based violence: Observation from Bangladesh
Sharif Mohammed Ismail Hossain, MBBS MPH, M. E. Khan, PhD, Ubaidur Rob, Ph D
Board 2Safe motherhood goes public: The white ribbon alliance for safe motherhood - building a global movement
Theresa Shaver, BSN, Midwife, Nancy Russell, MA
Board 3Symbolic policymaking in Maternal and Child Health: The family leave debate in Massachusetts, 2001-2002
Priya Sharma, MPH, Eugene R Declercq, PhD, Claudine Post
Withdrawn -- How the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) can do a better job of insuring uninsured children: The perspectives of parents of uninsured Latino children
Glenn Flores, MD, Milagros Abreu
Board 4Understanding the dynamics of linkages between advice and practice for infant and maternal nutrition in 8 states in India: An analysis of results
Manish Subharwal, PhD, T. Usha Kiran, M Sc, Deepika Nayar Chaudhery, PhD
Withdrawn -- Expanding on the Family and Medical Leave Act: State initiatives to provide paid parental leave
Claudine Post, Eugene R Declercq, PhD, Priya Sharma, MPH
Withdrawn -- Maternal Employment Insurance and Health Care Utilization for Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHN)
Luningning Cristina Hernandez, MPH
Board 5Pipeline to the public: MCH programming that puts the public back in public health
M. Jane Magee, BA
Board 6Recurrent emergency department use: Beyond insurance
Sally Findley, PhD, Matilde Irigoyen, MD, Steven Miller, MD, Maria Moreno
Board 7Quality of California birth certificate medical data: A comparison with hospital discharge records
Andrea P. MacKay, MSPH
Organized by:Maternal and Child Health
Endorsed by:Injury Control and Emergency Health Services; Population, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health; Public Health Nursing; School Health Education and Services; Socialist Caucus
CE Credits:Nursing, Social Work

The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA