142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

Home Events & Meetings Annual Meeting Schedule & Program

Online Program

Annual Meeting Recordings are now available for purchase

315907
20 Years on Black Women’s Health and Social Habits

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Monday, November 17, 2014 : 3:30 PM - 3:50 PM

Julie R. Palmer, ScD , Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, Boston, MA
The Black Women’s Health Study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, celebrates its 20th year of collecting data on the health, health behaviors, health risks and social circumstances of a national sample of 59,000 Black women.  Findings and trends from this landmark longitudinal study will be presented for discussion of implications on society and health equity.

Learning Areas:

Other professions or practice related to public health
Social and behavioral sciences

Learning Objectives:
Describe trends in health and health habits for Black women during the 20 years of the study, including differences by geography. Describe Black Women’s Health Study findings on the relationship of neighborhood socioeconomic environment to several health outcomes.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am a professor of Epidemiology with expertise in health disparities. As a Co-Principal investigator of the Black Women's Health Study, a large prospective cohort study, I have conducted epidemiologic research on the health of U.S. Black women for the past 20 years.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

Back to: 3326.0: IndexUS: Black Women's Health Matters