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Retired Assistant Surgeon General Marilyn H. Gaston, MD To Deliver Keynote Address At Women's Health Conference
WHAT: Three-day interdisciplinary conference on Enhancing Outcomes in Women's Health: Translating Psychosocial and Behavioral Research into Primary Care, Community Interventions and Health Policy, sponsored by the American Psychological Association (APA). The 400 presenters include: psychologists, psychiatrists, obstetricians, gynecologists, primary-care physicians, nurses, counselors, community health workers, public health educators and other specialists from around the nation.
The conference will focus on the diseases that are today's major killers and causes of disabilities of women, including arthritis, cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes. In addition, depression and health behaviors that contribute to these diseases will be examined, including smoking, obesity and lack of exercise.
WHEN:Thursday, February 21 - Saturday, February 23, 2002
WHERE:Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS:Thursday, February 2110:15 - 11:45 AM* Psychological distress in women with arthritis, diabetes and cardiovascular disease* Alzheimer's disease and women's health, including the role of depletion of gonadal hormones (especially estrogen) following menopause
1:00 - 2:30 PM* Psychosocial and health concerns of long-term survivors of breast cancer diagnosed at different life stages* How natural disasters such as Hurricane Floyd affect women's health, including increased reports of domestic violence
2:45 - 4:15 PM* Problems older women in rural communities face in managing diabetes* Why college women avoid cervical cancer screenings
4:30 - 6:00 PM* Reasons why HIV-positive women with chronic depression are two times more likely to die* Obesity in women: Risk factors and interventions* Factors affecting quality of life in young breast cancer survivors
Friday, February 228:30 - 9:30 AM* New findings on prenatal maternal stress and likelihood of preterm delivery, low birthweight, infant illness and developmental problems.
9:45 - 11:15 AM* What works in increasing peoples' physical activity* Current research on cause of depression and latest interventions* Hysterectomies and its effect on quality of life* Surviving cancer and functioning after treatment ends
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM* Prevalence of eating disorders in Black and White young adult women* Successful interventions for postpartum depression
1:30 - 3:00 PM* Treatment for women with low sexual desire* Do you or don't you use hormonal replacement therapy to deal with the cognitive changes of age* Health consequences of workaholic women managers
Saturday, February 238:00 - 10:00 AM* Exposure to RAP music videos and female adolescents' health* Exposure to X-rated movies and adolescents' sexual and contraceptive-related attitudes and behaviors* Dating violence victimization and African-American adolescent females' sexual health* Violent and nonviolent girls: contrasting perceptions of anger experiences, school and relationships* Effects of a home-based walking program to alleviate physical and psychological symptoms experienced by midlife women* Prevalence of depression and alcohol use in urban minority adolescent girls
10:15 - 11:15 AM* Sleep disorders across life milestones in women* Use of breast cancer screening among older women, urban women and lesbians
12:30 - 2:00 PM* Does menopause cause depression and lower sexual activity and functioning* Gender differences in risk of heart disease
Note:*Registration fee waived for credentialed press*Book of Abstracts available onsite and from APA's Public Affairs Office*More information about the conference is available on the web at: http://www.apa.org/pi/wpo/whc3/whc3.html
The American Psychological Association (APA), in Washington, DC, is the largest scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States and is the world's largest association of psychologists. APA's membership includes more than 155,000 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants and students. Through its divisions in 53 subfields of psychology and affiliations with 60 state, territorial and Canadian provincial associations, APA works to advance psychology as a science, as a profession and as a means of promoting human welfare
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