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Session: Improving Pregnancy Outcomes Posters: Assessing Risk Factors, Enhancing Protective Factors
3205.0: Monday, November 8, 2004: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Poster
Improving Pregnancy Outcomes Posters: Assessing Risk Factors, Enhancing Protective Factors
To be added later
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) in this session will be able to: 1. Identify barriers among substance-abusing pregnant women to receiving and completing substance abuse treatment, 2. Describe characteristics of physicians that women with low literacy value in their providers, 3. Identify the potentially teratogenic medications most frequently prescribed to women of child-bearing age 4. Assess the consequences of prenatal nutrition
Organizer(s):Susan McLaughlin, RN, MPH
Catherine Rohweder, MPH
Board 1Using promotoras to positively impact pregnancy and infant health outcomes among Latina immigrants
Britt Rios-Ellis, PhD, Susan M. Enguidanos, PhD, Farah A. Arosemena, BA, MPH (c), Rocio Leon, BS, Guadalupe Berganza, Sr, Belen Sanchez
Board 2An educational intervention to increase pre-conceptional awareness among reproductive age women
Nancy Khosa, MD, Linda E. Lloyd, PhD, Marjorie Angert, DO, MPH, Brian Castrucci, PhD
Board 3Beneficial effects on birth outcomes among pregnant women who participated in WIC: Five years' evidence from Florida
Jeffrey Roth, PhD, Samuel Wu, PhD, Edward A. Feaver, MDiv, Steven B. Morse, MD, MPH, Jie Yang, MS, Michael B. Resnick, EdD
Board 4Measuring the effects of p,p’-DDT and p,p’-DDE on preterm delivery, small-for-gestational age birth and low birthweight birth
Lili Farhang, MPH, June M. Weintraub, ScD, Myrto Petreas, PhD, Brenda Eskenazi, PhD, Rajiv Bhatia, MD, MPH
Withdrawn -- Diabetes in pregnancy and cesarean delivery in the state of Virginia
Tiwanica Ames, MPH, Saba Masho, MD, DrPH, Joan Corder-Mabe, RN, MA
Board 5Retention of women at substance abuse treatment facilities offering prenatal care services
Olivia Silber Ashley, DrPH, Lev S. Sverdlov, MD, PhD, Sameena Salvucci, PhD, Alisa Male, MA, Thomas M. Brady, PhD
Board 6Baby beware: Patterns of prescription of teratogenic medications
Eleanor Bimla Schwarz, MD, MS, Judith Maselli, Ralph Gonzales, MD
Board 7Evaluation of a multidisciplinary approach to assessing occupational exposures in pregnancy
John D Meyer, MD MPH, Ginger H Nichols, MS, Sharon Lavigne, MS, Anne Bracker, MPH, CIH, Sally S Rosengren, MD, Michael Grey, MD, MPH
Board 8"Breaking it down": Prenatal care preferences among women with low literacy
Julia F. Switzer, BA, Ian Bennett, MD, PhD, Abigail Calkins Aguirre, MPA
Board 9She's having a baby...in prison
Kamala Mallik Kane, MPH
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Maternal and Child Health
Endorsed by:Black Caucus of Health Workers; Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Population, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Women's Caucus

The 132nd Annual Meeting (November 6-10, 2004) of APHA