5056.0 Women’s Health

Wednesday, November 10, 2010: 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Oral
This session explores the role of women in ensuring their own health through micro-financing, healthy kitchens and the prevention of postpartum hemorrhage.
Session Objectives: * Describe the association between intimate partner violence and mental health among women in rural India. * Define the burden of mortality in non-pregnant women of reproductive age from one of the largest population research sites in South Asia. * Demonstrate the fragile nature of micro-credit as a strategy for poverty reduction.
Moderator:
Padmini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS,CHES

8:30am
Intimate Partner Violence and Women's Mental Health in Rural India
Amy Winter, BA, Rob Stephenson, PhD, Apoorva Jadhav, BS and Michelle J. Hindin, PhD
8:48am
Beyond maternal mortality: A qualitative study of non-pregnancy related deaths in rural Bangladeshi women of reproductive age
Shegufta Sikder, MHS, Parul Christian, DrPH, Mahbubur Rashid, MBBS, MPH, MBA, Barkat Ullah, MBBS, MPH, MBA, Keith P. West, DrPH, Rolf Klemm, DrPH, MPH and Alain B. Labrique, PhD
        
9:06am
Micro-credit and social justice: Understanding the pathways to improved health conditions through micro-credit schemes
Monique Hennink, PhD and Deborah Mc Farland, PhD
9:24am
“Healthy Kitchens”: Improving the health of Peruvian families through their kitchens
Ana Luz Chiapa, MS, MPH, Tim Scifres, BS, Miguel Angel Santé Velasquez, RN and Leonardo Grandy Mendoza, MD
     
9:42am
Assessing Society for Family Health's Misoprostol Pilot Project for the Prevention of Postpartum Hemorrhage in Rural Zambia
Josselyn Neukom, MA, John Manda, BA and Rose Shikonka, CNM
     

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

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