Session: Prevention Strategies for Improved Mother and Child Outcomes

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5124.0: Wednesday, November 08, 2006: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM

Oral

Prevention Strategies for Improved Mother and Child Outcomes

Papers presented in this session disucss a variety of parental, child, and community factors that must be taken into account when developing prevention strategies, both in the United States and internationally. Topics explored include perinatal systems and maternal characteristics leading to fetal and infant mortality, low childhood immunization rates, and obesity in early childhood. Three studies conducted in a Chinese and an African population examine parental and community factors that can promote increased use of childhood preventive services. A longitudinal study demonstrated how risk factors in children can be identified upon school entry. The Fetal and Infant Mortality Review process can identify important prevention messages in a multicultural community setting.

Learning Objectives: 1. Explain the relationship between parental health beliefs and immunization status of their children. 2. Describe the role of community participation in achieving better immunization coverage. 3. Describe how the FIMR process can be adapted to multicultural communities. 4. Explain how the risk for overweight among kindegarten children persists over time.

Organizer(s):

Hani Atrash, MD, MPH
Karen Bell, MPH

Moderator(s):

Karen Bell, MPH

12:30 PM

Association Between Parental Health Beliefs and Childhood Immunization Uptake in a Hong Kong Chinese Sample