5194.0 Teen Pregnancy: Fostering Health & Prevention

Wednesday, October 31, 2012: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Oral
Organizers:
Michele Kelley, ScD , Dennis Li, MPH , Olatokunbo Famakinwa, MD, MPH candidate and Samantha Kwiatkowski
Moderator:
Kathleen Ragsdale, PhD

12:30pm
Examining social determinants of teen pregnancy
Dana L. Watnick, MPH, MSSW, Cheng-Shiun Leu, PhD, Ellen Johnson Silver, PhD and Laurie J. Bauman, PhD
12:50pm
Pre-Teen Reading Ability: A Potential Predictor of Teen Pregnancy
Ian M. Bennett, MD, PhD, Rosemary Frasso, PhD, MSc, CPH, Kennen Gross, MPH and Scarlett Bellamy, ScD
     
1:10pm
Bolstering the health of young adolescent girls (11-14 years) for sustainable gains in maternal & infant health in rural Uttar Pradesh, A Cluster Randomized Trial
Nandita Kapadia-Kundu, PhD, Gadde Narayana, Phd, Geetali Trivedi, MA, Meenakshi Dikshit, MA, Ajay Misra, Phd and Basil Safi, Asia Division Chief
     
1:30pm
Adolescent childbearing in the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin, México: Young mothers' adaptations to parenting and perceptions of social support and family planning
Katharine Horowitz, MPH, CPH, Ondine Rosenthal, LCC and Thomas E. Guadamuz, PhD, MHS
     
  

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

Organized by: Maternal and Child Health
Endorsed by: Public Health Education and Health Promotion, APHA-Committee on Women's Rights

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)

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