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Session: International Maternal and Child Health: Reducing Environmental and Social Hazards
4051.0: Tuesday, November 9, 2004: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Oral
International Maternal and Child Health: Reducing Environmental and Social Hazards
This session will examine environmental risks (cooking and tobacco smoke, SARS, and hospital delivery) and social factors (maternal literacy and social status) that affect maternal and child mortality and morbidity. These papers represent major regions of the world and identify important, and often neglected risk factors. They provide a variety of research methodologies and intervention strategies applicable to rural and urban settings.
Learning Objectives: 1. Recognize enviromental factors in maternal and child health outcomes. 2. Describe effective research methodologies for assessing outcomes. 3. Identify intervention strategies to reduce environmental risks.
Organizer(s):Judy Lewis, MPhil
Moderator(s):Judy Lewis, MPhil
8:30 AMIntroductory Remarks
8:35 AMLabor augmentation in an Egyptian teaching hospital  [ Recorded presentation ]
Karima Khalil, MBBCH, MPH, Mohamed Cherine, MD, Amr Elnoury, MD, Hania Sholkamy, PhD, Miral Breebaart, BA, Nevine Hassanein, MD
8:52 AMBecoming a mothers during the SARS outbreak in Hong Kong
Joan E. Dodgson, PhD, RN, MPH, A. Marie Tarrant, PhD(c), MN, RN, Yuet-Oi Chee, RN, RM, IBCLC
9:09 AMEffects of cooking smoke and tobacco smoke on the risk of stillbirth: Evidence from India  [ Recorded presentation ]
Vinod Mishra, PhD, MPH, Robert D. Retherford, PhD, Kirk R. Smith, PhD, MPH
9:26 AMGiving women the power to act: Mothers change the face of child health in rural Bolivia  [ Recorded presentation ]
Lynn Johnson, MPH, Piedad Villegas, RN
9:43 AMUsing innovative technology for the health education of Afghan women and families  [ Recorded presentation ]
Gillian Howey Kimura, MPH, Seema Khandelwal, MPH, Howard Zucker, MD, Jeannine Greenfield, ScD, RN
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Maternal and Child Health
Endorsed by:Epidemiology; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Social Work
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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