3183.0 Emerging women's health issues

Monday, October 31, 2011: 12:30 PM
Poster
This poster session offers an opportunity for presenters to share their work on innovative and emerging topics relating to women's health, with the latitude to consider any conditions, disease states or phenomena. Topics will range from chronic disease management to sexual health and violence against women.
Moderator:
Peter Reed, PhD, MPH

Board 1
Psychological wellbeing among Bedouin women in polygamous marriages
Nihaya Daoud, Mph, PhD and Ilana Shoham-Vardi, PhD, MPH
Board 2
How do Women Find Out About HPV?: Results from a Diverse Sample
Jessica Barnack-Tavlaris, PhD and Luz Garcini, MA
Board 3
Female genital cutting and other intra-vaginal practices: Possible implications of changes in cervical secretions
Sarp Aksel, BS, Irit Sinai, PhD and Kimberly Aumack Yee, BA
Board 4
Approaches to pain management in women with osteoarthritis
Rachel Jawahar, MPH PhD candidate, Shibing Yang, MS PhD candidate, Charles B. Eaton, MD and Kate L. Lapane, PhD
Board 5
Age of Sexual Debut and Risk of Cervical Cancer: A meta-analysis
Bertha Hidalgo, MPH, Tiffany L. Cox, PhD, MPH and Rikki Tanner, MPH
Board 6
Association of Intimate Partner Violence with Cigarette Smoking Before and During Pregnancy, Maryland 2004-2008 Births
Diana Cheng, MD and Funmilola OlaOlorun, MBBS, MPH
Board 7
Role of gender in stress perception: Why women perceive and react more negatively to stress than men?
Irum Abbasi, MA Experimental Psychology, Greg Feist, PhD, Alana Cordeiro, BA and Latasha Barnwell, BA
  
Board 8
Weathering framework re-visited: How stress and "strength" influence the health experiences of black women across the lifespan
Angela Rose Black, PhD and Cheryl Woods Giscombé, PhD, RN
Board 9
A qualitative assessment of barriers to cervical cancer prevention: The role of men in the cervical cancer screening behaviors of women in Kumasi, Ghana
Michelle S. Williams, MPH, CHES

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

Organized by: APHA-Committee on Women's Rights
Endorsed by: Maternal and Child Health, Women's Caucus, Family Violence Prevention Forum

See more of: APHA-Committee on Women's Rights
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