3182.0 Healthy communities for healthy women

Monday, October 29, 2012: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Poster
In this presentation, the role of healthy communities in improving the overall productivity of the state and country will be discussed. The challenges which communities face in addressing women's health issues as well as community factors associated with improved women's health indicators will be highlighted.
Session Objectives: 1. Discuss the interplay of the women's health status of communities and their surrounding environments. 2. Identify the socio economic and cultural factors which contribute to women's health indicators in a community.
Moderator:
Ellen Mason, MD

Board 1
Psychological comorbidity and vitamin d levels among women with type II diabetes: Findings from the North Carolina neurocognition risk reduction diabetes study
Alethea Amponsah, BA BS, Kara Morrison, BA, Anna Queen, BA, Maria Isabel Rego, BA, Da' Lauren Mouzon-Smith, Erica Sickelbaugh, BS, BS, Hyunseung Lee, Madeleine Langr, Michelle Wright, Leonardo Tjahjono and David Mount, PsyD, MA
Board 2
Effectiveness of Federal Healthy Start in reducing preterm births among obese mothers
Hamisu Salihu, MD, PhD, Euna M. August, PhD, MPH, Cara de la Cruz, PhD, MPH, Alfred Mbah, PhD, Amina Alio, PhD and Estrellita Lo Berry, MA
Board 3
Effective Sexual Assault Prevention on College Campuses in Ohio and Kentucky: A Policy Analysis and Recommendations for Best Practices
Molly McKinney, MA, ABD, Stephany Whitaker, BA, Cassandra Harper, BA and Robert Braun, PhD, MPH, CHES
Board 4
A comparative study of musculoskeletal discomfort and psychosocial burden among foreign and domestic nursing attendants in Taiwan
Yu-Ching Huang, MS, Pei-Chun Lin, MS, Ku-Chou Chang, MD, Man-Chun Chou, MS and Hsuei-Chen Lee, PhD
Board 5
Eating Disorders and bystander engagement: A longitudinal study on the impact of "The Thin Line" on high school students
Cathy Plourde, MA
  
Board 6
Weight change from young adulthood to middle-old age and its association with blood pressure in Hong Kong Chinese women
Yao Jie Xie, PhD and Suzanne C. Ho, PhD
Board 7
Stress and central adiposity: Does cumulative stress contribute to elevated risk of obesity among women of Detroit?
Jamila Kwarteng, MS, Amy J. Schulz, PhD, Graciela B. Mentz, PhD and Monica White, MPH
Board 8
Women in Guatemala seeking help after abuse
Breah Paciotti, MPH, Kent Bream, MD and Fran Barg, PhD
Board 9
Implementing Oregon's New Strangulation Law
Maria Sistrom, RN MSN PhD and Matthew Jones, MPA PhD
Board 10
Effect of women's empowerment and socio-economic status on choice and use of family planning methods among Southeast Asian countries
Monika Sawhney, 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

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