141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Online Program

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Reproductive rights and justice

Tuesday, November 5, 2013: 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Oral
This session will discuss why women are often denied access to their reproductive rights and freedoms and the influence of their economic status and social milieu and how these may result in their being denied justice will be discussed.
Session Objectives: Identify the link between reproductive rights of women and justice
Moderator:
Constance Jackson, MPH

2:30pm
Cost-benefit analysis of a Medicaid-funded long acting reversible contraception (LARC) promotion program in Rhode Island   
Kenna Hawes, BA Community Health, Katherine DeAngelis, BA Community Health, Natasha Kumar, BA Community Health, BA Public Policy and Keally Cieslik, BA Community Health
     
  
2:50pm
Precocious puberty and permissive partnering: Age at menarche and risky sexual partnerships in adulthood   
Jennifer Nield, MPH, Ph.D., Kate L. Lapane, PhD, Derek Chapman, PhD and Brianna Magnusson, PhD, MPH
     
3:10pm
Trends in the timing of reproductive milestones among ethiopian women   
Ayalu Reda, PhD student and David Lindstrom, PhD
3:30pm
Building an advocacy coalition to respond to reproductive rights violations experienced by women with HIV in mesoamerica   
Tamil Kendall, PhD and Eugenia Lopez Uribe, MA

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

Organized by: APHA-Committee on Women's Rights
Endorsed by: International Health, Women's Caucus

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

See more of: APHA-Committee on Women's Rights