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

4362.0
Current Issues in Adolescent & Young Adult Health

Tuesday, November 5, 2013: 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Poster
Organizers:
Kimberly Arcoleo, PhD, MPH and Lesley A. Cottrell, Ph.D.

Board 1
Child and adolescent chronic health conditions and educational attainment   
Steven Champaloux, MPH, PhD and Deborah R. Young, PhD
Board 2
Relationships between psychosocial health indicators and weight status trajectories among American adolescents: The moderating role of gender, ethnicity, and acculturation   
Yiting Chang, PhD
Board 3
Longitudinal patterns of obesity from adolescence to young adulthood: How do stressful life events weigh in?   
Bethany Wexler Rainisch, PhD, MPH and Dawn M. Upchurch, PhD, LAc
Board 4
Hyper-texting and hyper-networking: Examining why too much texting and social networking is associated with teen risk behavior   
Scott Frank, MD, MS and Arit Ige, MPH Student, MBBS
Board 5
Drinking while driving and other risk factors associated with adolescent texting while driving   
Melanie Kornides, BSN, MS, MPH and Alison E. Field, ScD
Board 6
MCH pipeline program for undergraduates: Meeting the needs of minority students   
Alice Kuo, MD, PhD, Alma Guerrero, MD, MPH, Bobby Verdugo, MSW and Faye Holmes
Board 7
Differential secular trends in BMI in relation to region of childhood residence: A 25 year follow-up of a nationally representative sample   
Marian Moser Jones, PhD MPH, Tao Liu, Ph.D. and Edmond D. Shenassa, ScD
Board 8
Barriers and facilitators to conducting adolescent health risk assessments in primary care   
Jessica De Leon, PhD, Katie Eddleton, MPH, Michelle Vinson, MS RD LD/N, Jevetta Stanford, EdD, Michael Muszynski, MD and Elizabeth A. Shenkman, PhD
Board 9
Adolescent nutritional status and its association with village-level factors in Tanzania   
Nozipho Maziya, MS, Lorraine Cordeiro, MPH, PhD, Jerusha Nelson Peterman, PhD, RD and Aline Sayer, PhD
Board 10
Zero tolerance for errors: An examination of the impact of high school suspension on young adults' smoking   
Janet E. Rosenbaum, PhD, AM

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

Organized by: Maternal and Child Health

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