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Women's health and social vulnerability: substance use, incarceration, and immigration
Women's health and social vulnerability: substance use, incarceration, and immigration
Tuesday, November 18, 2014: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Oral
The purpose of this session is to highlight the experiences of women who are socially vulnerable and thus at high risk for poor health and/or birth outcomes. The vulnerabilities described in this session range from substance use, immigration, and incarceration.
Session Objectives: Identify how perinatal health may be affected by social vulnerabilities
Explain how substance use can increase the vulnerability of incarcerated women
Define how social markers, such as immigration status, can affected healthy motherhood
Identify the magnitude and effect of substance use disorders on birth outcomes
Organizers:
Wendy Hellerstedt, PhD, MPH
and
Marjorie Sable, DrPH, MSW
Moderators:
Marjorie Sable, DrPH, MSW
and
Wendy Hellerstedt, PhD, MPH
4:50pm
5:10pm
5:30pm
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by: Maternal and Child Health
Endorsed by: Public Health Nursing, Socialist Caucus, Women's Caucus, Family Violence Prevention Caucus, Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs, Community Health Planning and Policy Development, APHA-Committee on Women's Rights
CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)
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