5072.0 Policy and Finance for Maternal and Child Health

Wednesday, October 31, 2012: 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Oral
This session will review the effects of policy on several different challanges facing the maternal child health populations. It will specifically focus on the challenges and results of the policy and identify strengths and gaps that are still needed in order to support the maternal child health population.
Session Objectives: Comparing the effects of policy on the maternal child health population.
Organizer:
Shoshana Goldberg
Moderator:
Amy O'Malley, RN, MSN

8:30am
Gaps and Strengths in US Infant Feeding Policy Compared against the WHO Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding
James Ebert, MD, MPH, MBA and Linda Smith, MPH, IBCLC
     
8:50am
Women, career, and family : Policies and personal experiences in the US and abroad
Rachel Vanderkruik, MSc and Ashley Winning, MPH
9:10am
Overcoming health effects of poverty through insurance: Experience from the Philippines
Carlo Irwin Panelo, Dr, Jhiedon Florentino, Mr, Orville Solon, Prof and John Peabody, Dr
     
9:30am
Maternal health's ascent on the global policy agenda: How the Millennium Development Goals & a continuum of care framework changed an initiative's fortunes
Stephanie Smith, PhD and Mariela Rodriguez, MA
     

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

Organized by: Maternal and Child Health
Endorsed by: Socialist Caucus

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

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