3232.0 Women’s Health

Monday, November 9, 2009: 12:30 PM
Oral
Overview of international women's health issues
Session Objectives: List 3 major areas of international women's health Discuss 2 interventions targeting the above Describe programs addressing the above
Moderator:
Padmini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS,CHES

12:30 PM
Sexual violence in college students in Chile: Evidence from the 2005 Survey of Student Well-Being
Jocelyn A. Lehrer, ScD, Evelyn Lehrer, PhD and Pamela Oyarzun, MD
12:48 PM
Water, women and health in the Thar Desert, India
Prakash Tyagi, MD
  
1:06 PM
Correlates of Wife-Beating Acceptance among Ever-Married Women in India
Shilpa N. Patel, MPH, Frances McCarty, PhD, Carol E. Golin, MD, MPH, Puja Seth, PhD, Michelle Hynes, MPH, Julia Painter, PhD, MPH and Camille Sutton-Brown, MEd
1:24 PM
Evaluation of visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) adequacy with advancing age
Miriam Cremer, MD MPH, Mauricio Maza, Matthew Siedhoff, MD, Veronica Lerner, Kimberley Bullard, Elizabeth Conlisk and Juan Felix, MD
1:42 PM
Is health care coverage contributing to cervical cancer screening follow-up among Colombian women?
Isabel Garces, DrPH, MPH, Maja Altarac, MD, MPH, PHD, Russ Kirby, PhD,MS, FACE, Leslie A. McClure, PhD, Beverly A. Mulvihill, PhD and Isabel C. Scarinci, PhD, MPH

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Organized by: International Health
Endorsed by: APHA-Committee on Women's Rights, Maternal and Child Health, Socialist Caucus, Social Work, Women's Caucus

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

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