3162.0 Double Jeopardy: Multiple Discriminations as a Barrier to Health

Monday, October 27, 2008: 12:30 PM
Poster

Board 1
Homicide risk among immigrant women in New Jersey, 2003-2005
Bretta Jacquemin, MPH and Katherine Hempstead, PhD
Board 2
Tailoring a community-based type 2 diabetes intervention to a population facing multiple barriers to health care
April C. M. Soward, BA, Anne H. Skelly, PhD, RN, FAANPBC, John Carlson, MS, Jennifer Leeman, DrPH, MDIV and Dorothy Burns, PhD, RN
Board 3
Examining gender inequalities across castes: The case of a rural Keralite community
Riswana Soundardjee, BScN, RN, Slim Haddad, MD, PhD, D. Narayana, PhD, Pierre Fournier, MD, PhD and Katherine S. Mohindra, PhD
Board 4
Self-reported experience of racism when seeking medical care and adherence to mammography or Pap test screening
Christina A. Purpura, MPH Candidate 08, Deborah N. Pearlman, PhD, Daniela Quilliam, MPH and Sherry Weitzen, PhD
Board 5
Understanding the Health Experiences of Women with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities: Case Studies
Allison A. Brown, PhD
Board 6
Women of reality tv: A content analysis of stereotypical features
Phoebe Butler-Ajibade, EdD
Board 7
Cross-cultural and diversity inclusiveness training to reduce "borders as barriers" to health and health care
Grace Damio, MS, Karen A. D'Angelo, MSW, Stacey Brown, PhD, Karen Powell-Sears, PhD, Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, PhD and Judy Lewis, MPhil
Board 8
Focusing the needs of highly vulnerable women: Freelisting as a needs assessment technique
Zeenat N. Hasan, MPH
Board 9
When Female Genital Mutilation crosses borders: Exploring factors to discontinue the practice among Canadian migrants
Lara Maillet, MSc, Aïssata Sako, MSc and Bilkis Vissandjee, PhD
Board 10
Physical, social and economic factors that contribute to obesity among low income women at the Flagler House
Jovonni R. Spinner, MPH

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Organized by: APHA-Committee on Women's Rights
Endorsed by: Women's Caucus

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