3202.0 Women's Health Services - Challenges and Successes

Monday, November 8, 2010: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Oral
The interaction of gender with health service delivery and receipt will be explored in this session. It will explore the degree to which a Women-Centered Medical Home addresses community needs.
Session Objectives: At the end of this session, participants will be better able to Describe a barrier to honest communication between mothers and health care providers. Describe how a student-based outreach program impacts (pre)adolescent girls through health related choices. Discuss the strengths of the sex and gender-specific medical model as applied to community access and health care.
Moderator:
Lynne Kotranski, PhD

12:30pm
Reality or Ready Excuse? Why Mothers Don't Breastfeed
Caitlin Cross-Barnet, PhD, Marycatherine Augustyn, PhD, Amy Resnik, MS, RD, CSP, LDN, Susan Gross, PhD, MPH, RD, Joy P. Nanda, DSc,MS,MHS,MBA and David M. Paige, MD MPH
     
12:45pm
Reproductive health justice: Using Photovoice to fight cervical cancer in Little Haiti, Miami
Erin Kobetz, PhD, MPH, Janelle Menard, PhD, MA, MPH, Jenny Blanco, MPH, Joshua D. Diem, PhD, Marleine Bastien, MSW and Jonathan Kish, MPH
     
1:00pm
Sister to Sister: Public health students empowering young women through talk and tennis
Anna Steenrod, MPH and Alveta Haynes, BA
     
1:15pm
Assessing a novel mobile mammography intervention in a medically underserved community: A community-based participatory approach
Pratima Patil, MA, Carmel Salhi, MS, Loris J. Elqura, MS, Minerva Grullon, BS, Milagro Grullon, MM, Vilma Lora, BS, Vani Kulkarni, PhD and Alan C. Geller, MPH, RN

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

Organized by: Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Endorsed by: APHA-Committee on Women's Rights, HIV/AIDS, Socialist Caucus, Social Work, Women's Caucus, Cancer Forum

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

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