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Session: Understanding Adolescents and Their Health Needs
5175.0: Wednesday, November 10, 2004: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Oral
Understanding Adolescents and Their Health Needs
This session will include papers that present a wide variety of issues around adolescent health. Together with the other sessions about adolescent health sponsored by the section there is a comprehensive examination of the science and innovative responses addressing the needs of adolescents.
Learning Objectives: At the completion of this session, participants will be able to: 1. Describe how media stereotyping interferes with understanding and addressing health needs of adolescents. 2. Describe communication and support systems that promote healthy adolescence. 3. Describe the similarities and differences in the issues among US adolescents and those born in third world countries.
Organizer(s):Jane Pearson, RN
Joyce Eatmon, MPA
Moderator(s):Glen S. Bartlett, MD, PhD
2:30 PMAdolescence and other risk factors for excess weight gain during pregnancy  [ Recorded presentation ]
Terry J. Rosenberg, PhD, Samantha Garbers, MPA, Mary Ann Chiasson, DrPH
2:48 PMResponding to the needs of indigenous girls in Guatemala  [ Recorded presentation ]
Jennifer Lynn Catino, MPH, Kelly Hallman, PhD, Sarah Peracca, PhD
3:06 PMAssociations among family structure, demographics, and adolescent perceived life satisfaction
Keith Zullig, MSPH, PhD, Robert F. Valois, PhD, MPH, Scott Huebner, PhD, NCSP, FAPA, Wanzer J. Drane, PhD
3:24 PMImages of youth: The impact of stereotyping on youth  [ Recorded presentation ]
M. Elizabeth Fore, MEd, Deborah Parra-Medina, PhD
3:42 PMAdolescent-Provider Communication in Alabama's SCHIP  [ Recorded presentation ]
Beverly Mulvihill, PhD, Francis X. Mulvihill, PhD, Anita Jackson, BA, Melissa Romaire, BS, Cathy Caldwell
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Maternal and Child Health
Endorsed by:Population, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; School Health Education and Services; Social Work
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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