4272.0 Topics in Adolescent Health

Tuesday, November 6, 2007: 4:30 PM
Poster
This session covers a range of timely domestic and international adolescent health issues, including: reproductive health; access to health services; and risktaking.
Session Objectives: Understand factors affecting the health of adolescents international, in particular in Africa. Recognize health care access disparities faced by special populations of adolescents. Understand how neighborhoods and families impact risk perception and risk taking by adolescents. Update understanding of adolescent reproductive health issues.
Organizer:
Lacy M. Fehrenbach, MPH

Board 1
Deaf older adolescents: Health care access disparities in an understudied population
Elizabeth G. Finigan, MD
Board 2
There's always Plan B: Adolescent knowledge, attitudes, and intention to use Emergency Contraception
Alwyn T. Cohall, MD, Montsine Nshom, MPH and Andrea M. Nye, MPH
Board 3
Evaluation of Abstinence Only Education Programs: Politics Make Strange Bed Fellows
Darlene L. Shearer, DrPh and Sharon Bernecki DeJoy, MPH
Board 4
Parental monitoring and sexual risk behaviors among African-American adolescents living in low-income neighborhoods
Disa L. Cornish, MS, Natalie G. De La Cruz, MPH, CHES, Brad Lian, PhD, Lucy Annang, PhD and John Bolland, PhD
Board 5
Engaging the faith-based community in non-sectarian service – abstinence-until-marriage peer education
Marilyn Patton, RN, ND and Tom W. Briscoe, JD, MBA
Board 6
Development of a school-based, youth development program for pregnant and parenting teens
Joseph A. Dake, PhD, MPH, Joan Durgin, MEd, Timothy R. Jordan, PhD, MEd and James H. Price, PhD, MPH
Board 7
Multilevel modeling approach to adolescent risk perception in the neighborhood setting
Lynn Agre, MPH, PHD
  
Board 8
Neighborhood effects and risk-taking behavior among South African adolescents and young adults
Susan M. Lee-Rife, MHS, MA and Sarah A. Burgard, PhD
Board 9
Sexual abuse experience among late adolescents in Sri Lanka: The role of gender and family-income
Bilesha Perera, PhD, Truls Østbye, MD, PhD, Christopher Woods, MD and P.L. Ariyananda, MD, FRCP
Board 10
Factors Affecting Kenyan Adolescents' Childbearing Desires
Andrew M. Muriuki, PhD and Marjorie Sable, DrPH, MSW

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Organized by: Maternal and Child Health

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