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The Health of Vulnerable Women: Programs and Research
The Health of Vulnerable Women: Programs and Research
Wednesday, November 6, 2013: 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Poster
This session will describe important issues and interventions in women’s reproductive health: doula support in communities and in prisons, interventions to increase cervical cancer screening; parental decision-making about smoking around children and vaccinating children against HPV, racial differences in C-section rates and precocious puberty, and access to pre-conception, abortion, prenatal, and post-partum care.
Session Objectives: Describe a doula intervention to support pregnant women in prison.
Discuss fertility, family planning and abortion access in the U.S. and in Eastern Europe.
Discuss parental decision-making issues related to vaccinating children against HPV.
Moderator:
Marjorie Sable, DrPH, MSW, MPH
Organizer:
Wendy Hellerstedt, PhD, MPH
Board 4
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Organized by: Maternal and Child Health
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