Oral

This session includes a variety of analytical approaches using medical records, surveys and databases including birth registry. Relationships are explored between mothers' reports of their children's health and their own health status. Additionally multilevel modeling is applied to maternal and child health research, an area where this analytic approach is not commonly used. Analyses of medical records to assess HBsAg screening during and after pregnancy and adequacy of documentation HBsAg status which coule lead to inadequate prophylaxis. Effective strategies to reduce racial disparities in birth outcomes need to include actions that improve women's health throughout the life-course. This study will determine which factors are most highly related to poor birth outcomes across racial/ethnic groups, and may shed light on the direction intervention strategies should take to reduce these disparities.

Session Objectives: * Explain the importance of simultaneously evaluating individual and contextual determinants of child and maternal health. * Describe the key interpretative features of multilevel models as they apply to maternal and child health research. * Describe the current recommendations for the prevention of perinatal transmission of hepatitis B virus * Explain a method of data linking to test the Weathering Hypothesis. * Describe factors that relate to health disparities in birth outcomes.

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)