4089.0 Women’s health challenges across the life span

Tuesday, October 30, 2012: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Oral
This session will identify the challenges across a woman's life span which are sometimes not highlighted and the necessity for having specific strategies and policies in place to address these issues and make them a priority. Specifically, the economic benefits of prioritizing women's health will be highlighted to educate both health care providers and policy makers.
Session Objectives: 1. Identify challenges facing women through out their life cycle. 2. Discuss primary, secondary, and tertiary preventive strategies to address these challenges. 3. Explain the advantages to society of making women's health a priority.
Organizer:
Padmini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS,CHES
Moderator:
Padmini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS,CHES

10:30am
Women and chronic diseases: Prevention and wellness across the lifespan
Gopal Sankaran, MD, DrPH, MNAMS, CHES
     
10:45am
Women's Health is Societies' Wealth
Padmini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS,CHES, Deborah Viola, PhD and Amy Ansehl, DNP, FNP-BC
     
11:00am
Reproductive health programs and maternal mortality: How to use a right-based approach to evaluate the impact of reproductive health programs on maternal mortality
Elvira Beracochea, MD, MPH and Chidi Ukandu, MBBS MBA MSc
11:15am
E-health research and interventions via an innovative website: Meeting the health challenges of women of color across the life span
Barbara Wallace, PhD
     

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

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

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