5119.0 Topics in Maternal Child Health

Wednesday, November 11, 2009: 10:30 AM
Oral
This MCH session provides particpants with information about methodologies to screen for IPV inlcuding a new tool that may detect more subtle form of violence. A recent presentation explores scenarios from the provider persepective. The balance of this session 1) examines methods of grassroots lobbying using a midwifery example and 2) the identification of early DNA changes potentially related to smoking during pregnancy.
Session Objectives: Describe intimate partner violence screening, including tools and provider attitude. Describe grassroots lobby efforts to regulate midwifery. Describe DNA level impacts of smoking during pregnancy.
Organizer:
Ann M. Dozier, RN, PhD
Moderator:
Kimberly Arcoleo, MPH, PhD

10:30 AM
Partner violence screening effectiveness in a reproductive health care setting
Gabriela Santana Betancourt, MA, MPH, Lisa Colarossi, PhD and Vicki Breitbart, MSW, EdD
  
10:47 AM
Provider attitudes about intimate partner violence screening in a reproductive health care setting
Gabriela Santana Betancourt, MA, MPH, Lisa Colarossi, PhD and Vicki Breitbart, MSW, EdD
  
11:04 AM
A midwife-unifying cause: Inducing state regulation of midwifery through grassroots lobbying
Margaret Zoe Heimann, MPH and Eugene Declercq, PhD
  
11:21 AM
Global DNA hypomethylation in cord blood serum of babies exposed to maternal smoking in-utero
Rafael Guerrero-Preston, Dr PH, MPH, Cynthia LeBron, PhD, Marina Roystacher, MS, Julie B. Herbstman, ScM, PhD, Rolf U. Halden, PhD, Frank R. Witter, MD, David Sidransky, MD and Lynn Goldman, MD, MPH
  
11:38 AM
Congenital syphilis: A public health problem in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico
Martha Sánchez Escalante, MD, MPH, Jorge Duque Rodriguez, MD, Guadalupe Muñoz Saucedo, Stephen W. Pan, MSPH, Susan S. Reese, MPH and Luis G. Castellanos, MD, PhD
  

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Maternal and Child Health
Endorsed by: Public Health Nursing, Women's Caucus, Genomics Forum

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

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