141st APHA Annual Meeting

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4128.0
Women's Health Conditions and Behaviors Across the Lifecourse

Tuesday, November 5, 2013: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Oral
This session will describe several important issues in women's reproductive health: menstrual problems, pregnancy-related health, and postpartum contraception and weight control. In addition it will describe substance use and mental health issues--both of which can affect overall reproductive health.
Session Objectives: Describe women's reproductive health issues Describe how mental health and substance use are related for women Discuss public health interventions to improve pregnancy and postpartum outcomes
Moderator:
Wendy Hellerstedt, PhD, MPH
Organizers:
Kimberly Arcoleo, PhD, MPH , Lesley A. Cottrell, PhD , Wendy Hellerstedt, PhD, MPH and Marjorie Sable, DrPH, MSW

10:30am
Welcoming Remarks
10:35am
After gestational diabetes: Postpartum glucose tolerance testing and the dilemma of risk across the life course
Lois McCloskey, DrPH, MPH, Judith Bernstein, PhD, RNC, Ronald Iverson, MD, Michael R. Winter, MPH, Deborah Bowen, PhD and Aviva Lee-Parritz, MD
10:50am
Providing credible health information for young women and bleeding disorders
Cynthia Sayers, BA, Patricia Rhynders, PhD, MPH and JoAnn M. Thierry, PhD
11:05am
Pregnancy as a teachable moment: The postpartum weight management study
Charmaine Wright, MD, MSHP, Marjie Mogul, PhD and Glamarys Acevedo, B.S.
11:20am
Relationship between mental health indicators and drug use in women with substance use disorders (SUDs): Preliminary outcomes from a community-based, residential (SUD) treatment program for pregnant and post-partum women
Angela Fitzgerald, MS, Ryan Friedberg, MPH, Dawn Farrell-Moore, MSW, LCSW, CSAC, Lori Keyser-Marcus, PhD, Dierdre Pearson, LCSW, CSAC, Amy Bradshaw, MSW, David N. Masri, PhD (ABD) and James May, PhD
11:35am
Nurse family partnership contraceptive study
Alan Melnick, MD, MPH, CPH, Marni Storey, RN, MS, Elizabeth Jacob-Files, MA, Miguel Marino, PhD, Rebecca Rdesinski, MSW, MPH and Teresa Gipson, MD, MPH
11:50am
Discussion

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

Organized by: Maternal and Child Health
Endorsed by: Women's Caucus