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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
4047.0: Tuesday, November 12, 2002: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM | |||
Oral | |||
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| This session contains abstracts that both describe the extent of risk factors for poor birth outcomes, as well as promising interventions at the community level. The first presentation, "Impact of Live Events…on Pregnancy Outcomes of Inner City Women" is a study using structural equation modeling to describe how life stress and substance abuse significantly predicts negative outcomes. The second presentation, "Describing and Understanding Social Disparities in Unintended Pregnancy" will review the results of an analysis of social and racial/ethnic variables as they relate to unintended pregnancy in California's Maternal and Infant Health Assessment database. The findings will be interpreted in light of current health care policies. The third presentation, "Collaboration in Action" describes the Partners in Perinatal Health, which includes eighteen organizations in Massachusetts that are committed to improving the quality of health care for families throughout the state. Goals are accomplished through educating provider networks, creating an ideal model of care, and advocating for unified MCH policies. The fourth presentation, "Health Link" will describe a community and volunteer-based initiative to promote maternal and child health in North Carolina. Four essential elements of health promotion will be discussed: partnership, issues, intervention programs, and behavior changes. The fifth presentation, "Risk Reduction Pregnancy Program" is a program evaluation of an intervention to improve pregnancy outcomes among substance abusing women and reduce boarder baby days in the hospital. Results show that outreach workers were able to produce statistically significant differences in boarder baby length of stay for the women receiving their services. | |||
| Learning Objectives: 1. At the end of the session, the attendee will be able to describe the goals of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to promote “the translation of research findings into improved quality, patient safety, and health care outcomes”. 2. At the end of the session, the attendee will be able to describe the four basic elements of translational research as it applies to program development: a) Designing public health interventions/programs using evidenced-based research; b) Follow-up with methodologically appropriate, scientifically rigorous evaluation of public health interventions/programs (evidence-based evaluative research); c)Redesigning or retooling these interventions/programs based on the evaluation conclusions; d) Resulting in ongoing improvement of the interventions/programs in terms of quality, patient safety, and health care outcomes. 3. At the end of the session, the attendee will be able to describe three interventions to improve pregnancy outcomes at the community level. 4. At the end of the session, the attendee will be able to list two components of the community intervention programs that are appropriate for evaluation within the context of translational research. | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Barbara Wingrove, MPH Judith Katzburg, PhD Candidate Catherine L Rohweder, MPH | |||
| Judith Katzburg, PhD | |||
| Impact of Life Events, Interpersonal Conflict, Substance Use and Trauma on Pregnancy Outcomes of Inner-City Women Barbara Caldwell, PhD, RN, CN | |||
| Describing and understanding social disparities in unintended pregnancy Catherine Cubbin, PhD, Paula Braveman, MD, MPH, Kristen S. Marchi, MPH, Gilberto Chavez, MD, MPH, John S Santelli, MD, MPH, Brenda Colley Gilbert, PhD, MSPH | |||
| Collaboration in action: Bridging the disciplines, the Partners in Perinatal Health model of grassroots coalition building Andrea C. Bresnick, MPH, Gail Ballester, MEd, Antonia M. Blinn, CHES | |||
| Health Link: A public-private partnership to improve maternal and child health by applying and sustaining essential elements of health promotion practice James B. Cowan, DVM, MSPH, CHES, Carol Ann S. Houpe, BS, Claire P. Wilkie, MPH, RN, CNAA | |||
| Risk Reduction Pregnancy Program Elizabeth Parietti, EdD, RN, CNM, Barbara Caldwell, MSN, RN, CN, Theodore Barrett, MD, Winsome Parchment, MD | |||
| Organized by: | Maternal and Child Health | ||
| Endorsed by: | Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Population, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health; Public Health Nursing; School Health Education and Services; Socialist Caucus | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work | ||