141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Recorded Annual Meeting Presentations (RAMP) are now available for purchase.
Only $90 for presenters, $140 for registered attendees and $200 for non-attendees.

Online Program

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Sexual minority women’s health (including lesbians and bisexual women)

Tuesday, November 5, 2013: 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Oral
Moderator:
Jennifer M. Jabson, PhD, MPH

4:30pm
One-dimensional measures of sexual orientation in health disparities research: Who and what are we missing?   
Julia Przedworski
     
4:45pm
LGBT-specific sources of support and the mental health of young lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) women   
Jorge Soler, MPH, Michelle Johns, MPH, Emily Youatt, MPH, Emily Pingel, MPH, Gary W. Harper, PhD, MPH and José Bauermeister, MPH, PhD
     
5:00pm
Psychological distress, mental health services, and forgone health care use among lesbian and bisexual Asian-American women   
Hyeouk Chris Hahm, PhD, LCSW, Benjamin L. Cook, PhD, Jieha Lee, PhD MSW, Cecilia Vu and Sandra Archer
     
5:15pm
Forced sex among lesbian, bisexual, and other women who have sex with women in New York City: Correlates and implications for health   
Farnaz Kaighobadi, PhD, Kate Collier, MPH, CHES, CPH and Theo G. M. Sandfort, PhD

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

Organized by: LGBT Caucus of Public Health Professionals
Endorsed by: HIV/AIDS, Medical Care, Maternal and Child Health, Population, Reproductive and Sexual Health, Public Health Nursing, Socialist Caucus, Women's Caucus, APHA-Committee on Women's Rights

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

See more of: LGBT Caucus of Public Health Professionals