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Recorded Annual Meeting Presentations (RAMP) are now available for purchase.
Only $90 for presenters, $140 for registered attendees and $200 for non-attendees.

Online Program

3106.2
Breastfeeding Research, Policy and Practice Poster Session

Monday, November 2, 2015: 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Poster
This session contains poster presentations of new breastfeeding research. Presenters will describe their research and identify ways to improve practice and policy.
Session Objectives: Identify factors that impact breastfeeding in practice Describe factors that can improve breastfeeding policy
Organizers:
Briana Jegier, PhD, CLC and Nathan Nickel, MPH, PhD
Moderator:
Briana Jegier, PhD

Board 1
Impact After Passage of Public Health Laws Supporting Breastfeeding Mothers: NY Experience   
Barbara Dennison, MD, Trang Nguyen, MD, DrPH, Wei Fan, PhD, Changning Xu, MPH, Kristin Murphy, MPH and Deborah Gregg, MPH, RDN
Board 2
Statewide Support Network to Improve Breastfeeding Rates in Arkansas   
Erin Bush, RNC-MNN and Sarah Kinder, PhD, DNP, APRN
Board 3
Factor Structure of Breastfeeding Self Regulation Questionnaire   
Christine Yin Kei Lau, BSc, MPhil, MPH, Daniel Yee Tak Fong, PhD and Marie Tarrant, RN MPH PhD
Board 4
Understanding the association of experience of violence on women's breastfeeding decisions in a South African context   
Mugdha Golwalkar, MPH
  
Board 5
Factors That Encouraged and Inhibited Breastfeeding Initiation and Duration in Mothers with Policy Suggestions   
Kelvin Freeman, MPH
Board 6
Trends in modification of smoking behaviors among pregnant women in West Virginia   
Ilana R A Chertok, PhD, MSN, RN, IBCLC and Zelalem Haile, PhD, MPH

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

Organized by: Maternal and Child Health
Endorsed by: Aging & Public Health, Women's Caucus, Breastfeeding Forum, APHA-Committee on Women's Rights

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