142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Poster Session: Children with Special Health Care Needs: Challenges across the Lifespan

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Tuesday, November 18, 2014: 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Poster
This session describes activities and findings on numerous maternal and child health topics, including individual, community, and system effects on maternal and child health outcomes, unmet need, timeliness of services and access to care, and genetic testing.
Session Objectives: Compare postpartum weight retention patterns among mothers with and without CSHCN Describe relationship between unmet needs for child health services and functional status among US children with developmental conditions Identify the association between physician scope of practice and transition to adult care services for youth with special health care needs Examine timeliness of services and perceived barriers to care for CSHCN Identify common motor skills that autistic children have trouble performing Explain current protections from seasonal influenza for CSHCN Compare utilization of current genetic testing with whole genome sequencing Describe hearing loss in CSHCN
Organizers:
Cynthia Cassell, PhD and Jennifer Marshal, PhD, MPH

Board 1
Postpartum Weight Retention Among Mothers of Children with Special Health Care Needs
Laurel Hoffmann, BA, Elizabeth Adams, PhD, RD, Dawn Peters, PhD, Kenneth D. Rosenberg, MD, MPH and Emily Gallagher, MD, MPH
Board 2
Unmet Healthcare Needs and Functioning among US Children with Developmental Conditions
Olivia Lindly, MPH, Brianna Sinche, MPH and Katharine Zuckerman, MD, MPH
Board 3
Transition to adult care services for youth with sepcial health care needs
Kimberly Fulda, DrPH, MPH, Laurin J. Kasehagen, MA, PhD and Kaley Halliday, MPH
Board 4
Timeliness of surgical repair among infants with spina bifida
Elizabeth Radcliff, MSPH, Cynthia Cassell, PhD, Sarah Laditka, PhD, Jane Correia and Russell Kirby, PhD
Board 5
Promoting Seasonal Influenza Vaccination for Children with Special Healthcare Needs
Rebecca Gehring, MPH, Paul Etkind, DrPH, MPH, Sarah Yates, JD and Charlene Kemmerer, BA
Board 6
Autism treatment: A Kinect-based game
Patipol Paripoonnanonda, Graduate Student, Martin Le, Graduate Student and Chang Yun, Advisor
Board 7
Board 8
Potential genomics to end the diagnostic odyssey in the NICU
Elisabeth Klein, DNP, MSN, CNS, Alina Khromykh, MD and Kathi Huddleston, PhD, RN, MSN, CNS, CCRC
Board 9
Orofacial Cleft: Higher Risk for Hearing Loss
Shivender Beniwal and Tri Tran, MD,MPH

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

Organized by: Maternal and Child Health