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Session: Women's Health in a Social Context: A Poster Session
3240.0: Monday, November 8, 2004: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Poster
Women's Health in a Social Context: A Poster Session
The poster session will include presentations on women's health in a social context. The posters include formative, qualitative, theory-based, epidemiological, and intervention research methods. The topics of the posters are breast and cervical cancer, intimate partner violence, sexual and reproductive health, mental health, substance abuse, and HIV. All these topics are relevant to women's health and can be considered from a social perspective.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the poster session, the participant will be able to: (1) Discuss women's health issues in a broad sense; (2) Identify important social factors that affect women's health; and (3) Report on women's health topics including breast and cervical cancer, intimate partner violence, sexual and reproductive health, mental health, substance abuse, and HIV.
Organizer(s):Stacey B. Plichta, ScD
Board 1Stage of change for cervical cancer screening: Sexual orientation, psychosocial factors, demographics and health needs
T. Hope McGonigle, PhD
Board 2Fear of cancer: Barrier or trigger for preventive actions
Desmalee Holder-Nevins, MPH, CHES, Isolyn Bell-Rose, FNP, RN, RM, Sheila Campbell-Forrester, MBBS, DPH
Withdrawn -- Predictors of breast and cervical cancer screening behaviors among Hispanic, African American and White women
Ola Stacey Rostant, BS
Board 3African-American survivors’ insights concerning intimate partner violence: A qualitative study
Katherine E. Morrison, MS, PhD
Withdrawn -- Correlations of biological and lifestyle factors to perceptions of side effects in a breast cancer chemoprevention study
Nicole Willis, BS, Lisa Ulmer, ScD, Chanita Hughes, PhD
Board 4Fatalism and hysterectomy status: Implications for patient education and decision making
Mary L. Greaney, PhD, Robert McKeown, PhD, Donna L. Richter, EdD, Thomas G. Hurley, MS
Board 5A Study of Body Size Perception of older African American women and its correlates
Mary L. Greaney, PhD, Donna L. Richter, EdD, Sara Wilcox, PhD, Lisa R. Yanek, MPH, Diane M. Becker, ScD, MPH, RN, Roger Sargent, PhD, Belinda M. Reininger, DrPH
Withdrawn -- Primary care provider use patterns: Preferences and satisfaction among adult women of reproductive age
Jillian T. Henderson, PhD, MPH
Board 6Positive Externalities of Sexual Abstinence Education - Lessons from Chester, PA
Beletshachew Tefferi, MPH, Irshad Ali Shaikh, MD MPH PhD, Masood Ali Shaikh, MD MPH
Board 7Substance-Abusing Women in Prison: Prevalence and Correlates of Exposure to Childhood Trauma/Abuse
JoAnn Y. Sacks, PhD
Withdrawn -- Marriage and women’s physical, mental and reproductive health in California
Diana Greene Foster, PhD, Nikki L. Baumrind, PhD, MPH, Abigail Arons, Rachel Kimerling, PhD, Felicia Stewart, MD
Board 8Women in the stirrups: Experiences of HIV-infected patients in a teaching hospital clinic
Alice B. Fox, PA, DrPH, Jeanne Carey, MD
Board 9Health Care Needs of Women in a Domestic Violence Shelter: A Pilot Study
Stacey B. Plichta, ScD, Elizabeth Vogel, MS, PhD, Teresa W. Babineau, MD
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Women's Caucus
Endorsed by:APHA-Committee on Women's Rights; Population, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health
CE Credits:CME

The 132nd Annual Meeting (November 6-10, 2004) of APHA