141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Only $90 for presenters, $140 for registered attendees and $200 for non-attendees.

Online Program

5057.0
Social Determinants in Maternal and Child Health

Wednesday, November 6, 2013: 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Oral
This session will examine social, contextual and physiological determinants of health and discuss best practices for utilizing these indicators in pubic practice.
Session Objectives: Discuss common best practices for using life course indicators in public health practice Evaluate the potential role of telomere biology in maternal and child health outcomes
Moderator:
Kimberly Arcoleo, PhD, MPH
Organizers:
Kimberly Arcoleo, PhD, MPH and Lesley A. Cottrell, Ph.D.

8:30am
From theory to measurement: Proposed state maternal and child health life course measures   
Tegan Callahan, MPH, Caroline Stampfel, MPH and William M. Sappenfield, MD MPH
     
        
8:50am
Social determinants of telomere lengths among low-income, ethnically diverse pregnant women   
Ami Zota, ScD, MS, Rachel A. Morello-Frosch, PhD, MPH, Jue Lin, PhD, Elissa Epel, PhD, Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD and Tracey J. Woodruff, PhD, MPH
     
9:10am
Residential mobility in the perinatal period among a statewide representative sample of women, 2003 – 2007   
Claire Margerison-Zilko, PhD, Catherine Cubbin, PhD, Jina Jun, MA, Kristen Marchi, MPH, Kathryn R. Martin, MPH, PhD, Michael P. Curtis, PhD and Paula Braveman, MD, MPH
     

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

Organized by: Maternal and Child Health
Endorsed by: Public Health Education and Health Promotion, Black Caucus of Health Workers

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)

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