Poster

Posters in this session provide an overview of predictors and correlates of women’s health across the lifespan. Specific topics to be discussed include psychosocial stressors, cancer-preventive behaviors, mental health, disease management strategies in different ethnic populations, and a women’s lifespan public health curriculum. In addition, other factors are presented that can be used to inform women’s health interventions across the lifecourse with an emphasis on novel, nontraditional approaches.

Session Objectives: 1. Identify different levels of influences on women’s health including individual, social, and community-level factors; 2. Differentiate individual, social, and community-level influences of women’s health across the lifecycle; and 3. Discuss innovative approaches to identifying the contributions of various levels on women’s health across the lifespan.