2053.0 Individual and health care provider approaches to building healthy communities for women

Sunday, October 30, 2011: 2:30 PM
Poster
This poster session explores barriers and facilitators to improving women’s health, including descriptions of three health programs aimed at improving health outcomes for women.
Session Objectives: 1. Discuss barriers and facilitators to improving maternal child health and other women’s health issues such as obesity and cervical cancer. 2. Describe two community-based programs focused on improving women’s health. 3. Describe a clinical training program aimed at improving health outcomes for rural women.
Moderator:
Lisa Wigfall, PhD, MA, BSMT (ASCP)

Board 1
Marginalized Majority and the Call to Action
Diana Jolles, CNM MS
Board 2
Challenges to maternal and child health in upstate New York: Perspectives of low income women
Linda Weiss, PhD, Maysoun Freij, PhD, MPH, Kara Williams, MPH, Kandice Jones, MPH, Anne Bozack, MPH, Collette Sosnowy, MA and Kathleen Kilroy-Marac, PhD
Board 3
Mobile mini-residency training program for women rural health providers
Ryung Suh, MD MPH MPP MBA, Ria Muttukumaru, Wendy Opsahl, MA, Korisha Ramdhanie, MPH and Jeff Baetz, PMP
Board 4
Perceived discrimination and obesity among African American women in Detroit: Social support and neighborhood characteristics as effect modifiers
Jamila Kwarteng, MS, Amy J. Schulz, PhD, Graciela Mentz, PhD and Monica White, MPH
Board 5
Gender Differences in Negative Emotional Responses and HPV-Related Stigma after HPV Testing
Ellen Daley, PhD, Natalie D. Hernandez, MPH, Erica Hesch Anstey, MA, CLC, Eric R. Buhi, MPH, PhD, Stephanie L. Marhefka, PhD, Christopher Wheldon, MSPH, MEd, Elizabeth Baker, MPH, CPH, Judith Syfrett, MPH, Stephanie Kolar, MSPH and Cheryl Vamos, PhD, MPH
Board 6
Health Belief Model and the impact on Cervical Cancer Screening Among Vietnamese Americans
Grace X. Ma, PhD, Carolyn Y. Fang, PhD, Ziding Feng, PhD, Wanzhen Gao, PhD, Yin Tan, MD and Joseph An Nguyen
Board 7
Empowering peer leaders to build healthy communities: Healthy Girls, Healthy Women
Hye Won Lee, MPH, Sharon Odametey, MPH and Laurie Jo Wallace, MA
Board 8
Do Maternal Characteristics and Demographics Affect Child Influenza Immunization Rates?
Kristin Schuller, MHA, PhD(c)

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

Organized by: Women's Caucus
Endorsed by: Socialist Caucus, American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Caucus, APHA-Committee on Women's Rights

See more of: Women's Caucus
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