4048.0 Examining Breastfeeding Disparities in At Risk Groups

Tuesday, November 9, 2010: 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Oral
This session highlights the importance of promoting and facilitating breastfeeding among women at risk and/or living in environments considered less than supportive. Topics presented in this session are less frequently discussed in the literature; therefore, inform us about cutting edge work among breastfeeding advocates. The topics of sexual abuse and female incarceration are sensitive issues that are understudied. Breastfeeding issues in the developing world are presented within a global initiative.
Session Objectives: 1. Define the issues facing groups at risk for breastfeeding failure. 2. Describe at least 2 approaches that have facilitated continued breastfeeding for women living at risk environments.
Organizer:
Connie Bish, PhD, MPH
Moderator:
Joan E. Dodgson, PhD MPH PhD

8:30am
Predictors of exclusive breastfeeding among adolescent and adult first-time mothers
Miranda R. Waggoner, MA and Lane Volpe, PhD
     
8:50am
Restoring Motherhood: A qualitative study about the significance of breastfeeding to incarcerated pregnant women in a New York City Jail
Katy Huang, BN, MIH, IBCLC, Rebecca Atlas, MPH and Farah Parvez, MD,MPH
     
9:10am
Social dimensions of breastfeeding: Impact on achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in developing countries
Monika S. Sawhney, PhD and Collins Opiyo, PhD
9:30am
Survivors Speak: Child Sexual Abuse Impacts Breastfeeding Experiences
Emily C. Taylor, MPH, CD(DONA), LCCE
     

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

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

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

See more of: Maternal and Child Health
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