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Session: Data Analysis to Improve Maternal and Child Health
3380.0: Monday, November 8, 2004: 8:30 PM-10:00 PM
Oral
Data Analysis to Improve Maternal and Child Health
This session will include presentations that describe ways that data analysis can be used to determine contributing factors to health practices, behaviors and outcomes.
Learning Objectives: At the completion of the session, participants will be able to: 1. Identify new ways to analyze data that can be used to understand factors that can contribute to poor health outcomes. 2. Identify new strategies to improve health outcomes based on presented papers.
Organizer(s):Jane Pearson, RN
Moderator(s):Wendy L. Hellerstedt, PhD, MPH
8:30 PMIntroductory Remarks
8:35 PMRegional disparities in health: An Analysis of infant mortality trend in Andhra Pradesh, India
Prasanta Mahapatra, Samatha Panati, Pushpa Latha
8:48 PMPreterm Birth: A Common Complex Disorder and a Public Health Priority
Siobhan M. Dolan, MD, Nancy Green, MD, Joann Petrini, PhD, MPH, Janis Biermann, MS, Karla Damus, RN, PhD
9:01 PMCommunity assessment: A comparison of infant mortality rates and services in Marion and Madison county, Indiana
Ruth Ann Styron, Registered Nurse, Sarah Neal, Registered Nurse
9:14 PMFacility practice vs. evidence-based care: Third-stage management in an Egyptian teaching hospital
Mohamed Cherine, MD, Nevine Hassanein, MD, Amr Elnoury, MD, Hania Sholkamy, PhD, Miral Breebaart, BA, Karima Khalil, MBBCH, MPH
9:27 PMLifestyle Risk Factors For Low Birth Weight in a Farming Region of South Africa
Debra J. Jackson, BSN MPH DSC, Elize Batiste, MPH, Kirstie Rendall-Mkosi, BSc(OT) MPH
9:40 PMMedia assessment and advocacy: “The (Un)Real World” of infectious disease control in children’s television programming
Rachel C. Flores, Deborah C. Glik, ScD, Shirley S. Kwok, Cristina Punzalan
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Maternal and Child Health
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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