3181.0 Portraits in women's health

Monday, October 29, 2012: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Poster
The purpose of this session is to make the attendees aware of the special needs and challenges faced by women globally with regard to their health.
Session Objectives: 1. List the challenges faced by women with regard to their health. 2. Describe the special health needs of women and what can be done to address them.
Moderator:
Valarie Conrad, OD, MPH, ARM

Board 1
Incidents of non-armed conflict forced pregnancy among women of African descent: Case studies in South Africa, Jamaica, and the United States
Anya Bazzell, MPH
  
Board 2
Analyzing the Relationships of Healthy Start Women's Weight, BMI and Maternal & Child Health Outcomes and the Healthy Start Healthy Women Project in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Mitchell Coates, MBA
Board 3
Massachusetts Muslim women and intimate partner violence: A needs assessment
Rehab Alabduljabbar, BDS, DScD, Emily Rothman, ScD and Thayer Scott, MPH
Board 4
Federal breastfeeding workplace law and university lactation support programs: Translating policy to action
Meg Henning, MA, PhD, Violet Beets, MPH, PhD Student, Meghan Anthony and Fedrizzi Rudolph, MD
Board 5
Physical and mental health effects of coercion: An application of Biderman's framework to human trafficking
Susie Baldwin, MD, MPH and Annie Fehrenbacher, MPH
Board 6
Changes in reporting of intimate partner violence prevalence and help seeking behaviors in the context of new national policies: The case of Peru, 2004-2008
Sara Shuman, MPH
Board 7
Intimate partner violence, economic abuse, depression, & anxiety: Impacts on later economic outcomes for women with children
Rachel Voth Schrag, MSW, LCSW
  
Board 8
Correlates of Forced Sex Among High School Students in A Southern State as documented by YRBS Data
Board 9
Rurality and intimate partner violence: An analysis and discussion of weekly Midwestern newspapers
Erin O'Gara, MS

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, Oral Health, Women's Caucus

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