| V: Gendering Health |
Monday June 21
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| Auditorium 6, Medicine and Health Building
Capacity: 138 |
Auditorium 7, Medicine and Health
Capacity: 138 |
| 1st. Session: Keynote Speaker |
Aud. 7, Medicine and Health
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| Johanne Sundby (Norway): Women and Infertility in North
and South Norway
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| 2nd. Session |
| Young Women’s Health & Sexuality
Chair/Coordinator: Tobe Levin (Germany) Lena Mobrandt (Sweden): The Princess on a White Horse Tobe Levin (Germany): Female Genital Mutilation in Europe Meredith McIntyre (Australia): What Young Women Know = What Young Women Do |
Women's Bodies: Sport, Exercise and Empowerment (Workshop)
Chair/Coordinator: Mari-Kristin Sisjord (Norway) Participants: Kari Fasting (Norway) Fiona Dowling Næss (Norway) Celia Brackenridge (UK) Ulla Tebelius (Sweden): Significance of Women in Sports |
| 3rd Session |
| Young Women’s Health & Sexuality (Continued)
Chair/Coordinator: Nazeema Ahmed (South Africa) Nazeema Ahmed (South Africa): Gender Differences in School Climates and Cigarette Smoking among High-School Students in Cape Town, South Africa Eda Leesalu (Estonia/Norway): High-Risk Activities. Working with Gender and Youth Sexual Health Issues in Cross-Cultural Contexts: The NIKK “Living for Tomorrow” Project |
Women's Bodies: Sport, Exercise and Empowerment (Continued) |
| 4th. Session |
| Meetings between Women, Educators and Workers
Chair/Coordinator: Jodie Lenette Moyle (Australia) Lynne Hunt (Australia): Rain without Thunder: The Political and Cultural Context of Sexual Education Jodie Lenette Moyle (Australia): Working with the Wider System: A Study of Women’s Health Service Managers Helle Annfelt (Norway): Social Work as Knowledge: What Can a Gendered Perspective Reveal? |
| 5th. Session |
| Meetings between Workers
Chair/Coordinator: Hanne Marlene Dahl (Denmark) Martina Loos (Germany) and Britta Schlieper (Germany): Observing Interaction between Nurses and Physicians in Hospitals: Methodological Pitfalls Hege Eggen Børve (Norway): Female Managers and Health Work: Which Aspects Predict Health Problems and Management Positions to Modify Their Relationships? |
| IV: Gendering Health |
Tuesday June 22
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| Auditorium 6, Medicine and Health Building
Capacity: 138 |
Auditorium 7, Medicine and Health
Capacity: 138 |
| 1st. Session: Keynote Speaker |
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| 2nd. Session |
| HIV/ AIDS
Chair/Coordinator: Anne Nasimiyu-Wasiki (Kenya) Anne Nasimiyu-Wasiki (Kenya): The Effects of AIDS & HIV on African Women and Children Graziella van den Bergh (Tanzania): Contraceptive Technology in Times of HIV: Why Are the Wrong Methods So Popular? Reflections on Contraceptive Strategies amongst Tanzanian School Girls Living in a Global World |
Feminist and Mainstream Psychology: Friends or Foes?
(Workshop)
Chair/Coordinator: Agnes Andenæs (Norway) Participants: Agnes Andenæs (Norway) Rhoda Unger (USA) Ariella Friedman (Israel)
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| 3rd Session |
| HIV/ AIDS
Chair/Coordinator: Karen Wyche (USA) Barbara Dane (USA): Women with HIV/AIDS in Thailand: A Pilot Study on Disclosure to Family and Children Karen Wyche (USA): Women Coping with Life Stress, Work, Abortion and HIV |
Gendering Social Work
Chair/Coordinator: Liv Johanne Solheim (Norway) Thonette Myking (Norway): Constructions of the Professional Social Worker in Norway; An Anthropological View Siv Oltedal (Norway): Gender and Communication at Social Welfare Gunn Strand Hutchinson (Norway) |
| 4th Session |
| Ageing
Chair/Coordinator: Chueh Chang (Taiwan) Fabia Shundi (Tanzania): Resigned or Refreshed: The State of the Ageing Tanzanian Women Chueh Chang (Taiwan): Medicalization of Menopause in Taiwan Victoria Meyer (USA): The Construction of Menopause as a Deficiency Condition: Unrevealing Gender and Ethnic Biases |
Gendering Social Work (Continued)
Chair/Coordinator: Liv Johanne Solheim (Norway) Anne-Mari Bergkåsa (Norway): Do We as Health Care and Social Workers Hold Neutrality as an Ideal Approach to Individuals That Are Facing a Conflict of Values? Anne Kristine Solberg (Norway): Female Leaders in the Health and Social Sector ? What Kind of Dilemmas and Conflicts Do They Face? |
| 5th Session |
| Ageing and Everyday Life
Chair/Coordinator: Christel Geerts (Belgium) Ingerlise Andersen (Denmark): “Let Us have Fun Growing Old”: Single Women’s Network for Support and Encouragement Christel Geerts (Belgium): Middle Aged Women: From Being Invisible to Being Indispensable Aylin Akpinar (Sweden): Conceptions of Turkish Women on Health, Ageing and Family |
The Mind-Body Connection: Balancing Work, Family and
You (Workshop)
Chair/Coordinator: Sandra Lotz Fisher (USA) |
| V: Gendering Health |
Wednesday June 23
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| Auditorium 6, Medicine and Health Building
Capacity: 138 |
Auditorium 7, Medicine and Health
Capacity: 138 |
| 1st. Session: Keynote Speaker |
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| 2nd. Session |
| Power, Gender and Knowing in the Encounter between
Women Patients and Doctors (Workshop)
Chair/Coordiantor: Lucy Candib (USA) Participants: Lorraine Code (Canada) Kirsti Malterud (Norway) |
Birthing/Reproduction/Mothering
Chair/Coordinator: Priscilla Nanyaro (Tanzania) Zalka Drglin (Slovenia): Giving Birth into Medicine: The Rights and Wrongs of Women. The Case of Slovenia Pricilla Nanyaro (Tanzania): Reproductive Rights for Women in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Kibaha, Tanzania Thi Hoai Duc Nguyen (Vietnam): A Study of Reproductive Health of Single Mothers in Soc Son District, Vietnam Rosalia Sam Katapa (Tanzania): Teenage Reproductive Health Needs in Tanzania: Evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys |
| 3rd Session |
| Mental Health
Chair/Coordinator: Paola Leonardi (Italy) Gunnel Hensing (Sweden): What Do Psychiatrists Consider Mental Health in Adult Women and Men? Annukka Savikko (Sweden): The Role of Mental Health Problems Paola Leonardi (Italy): Depression: Transform It into a Resource and Improve Self-Esteem. Ludmila Ougolkova (Russia): Psychological Support for Lesbian Women |
Abortions
Chair/Coordinator: Shahin Gerami (USA) Shahin Gerami (USA): Stories of Illegal Abortions: Cases from Iran Irina Katkova (Russia): From Abortions to Contraception in Modern Russia |
| 4th Session |
| Understanding the Psychological Distress of Female
Farm
Workers of Colour in South Africa: The Limits and Potential of Psychiatric Epidemiology (Workshop) Chair/Coordinator: Suzanne De Villiers (South Africa) Participants: Suzanne De Villiers (South Africa) Lou-Marie Kruger (South Africa) Marian Campbell (South Africa) |
Parenting
Chair/Coordinator: Bela Kothari (India) Meredith McIntyre (Australia): Mother/Baby In-Patient Unit: Measuring Outcomes Grace Bantebya Kyomuhendo (Uganda): Social Cultural Factors in Maternal Health Le Thi Nham Tuyet (Vietnam): Male Involvement in Reproductive Health Study in Vietnam Paola Ferroni (Australia): The Role of Local Postnatal Parenting Groups in Developing Informal Support Networks for First-Time Mothers |
| 5th Session |
| V: Gendering Health |
Thursday June 24
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| Auditorium 6, Medicine and Health Building
Capacity: 138 |
Auditorium 7, Medicine and Health
Capacity: 138 |
| 1st. Session: Keynote Speaker |
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| 2nd. Session |
| Indigenous People in the Arctic/Sami and Nenets Women's
Health
Chair/Coordinator: Johanne Sundby (Norway)and Gudrun Eriksen Lindi (Sápmi) Tove Lill Labahå (Sápmi, Norway): Women and Reindeerherding; Mastering and Adaptation in a Trade in Change, and Women's Adaptation to these Changes. Ruth Pedersen (Sápmi, Norway): Being in a Network; About Matriarchy and Preventive Health Care. Gunn-Tove Minde (Sápmi, Norway): Sami Traditional Folk Medicine Seen from the Perspective of Coastal Sami People Aino Snellman (Sápmi, Finland/Norway): Sami Women's Health in General. How to Cope with Trafficking in a Small Sami Village in Borderland Galina Artejeva (Nenets Aut. Region, Russia): Health Conditions among the Indigenous People in Nenets Autonomous Region |
Disabilities/Chronic Illness
Chair/Coordinator: Anna Sarkadi (Sweden) Julie Brown (USA): Falling Through the Safety-Net: Sick and Female in St. Petersburg, Russia (Co-author: Nina Rusinova) Anna Sarkadi (Sweden): The Role of Cultural Context and Social Network in Women’s Chronic Illness Ulrike Schildmann (Germany): What is Normal? Normality, Disability, Gender |
| 3rd. Session |
| Health Access
Chair/Coordinator: Jytte Aagot Moeller (Denmark) Jytte Aagot Moeller (Denmark): Old and New Procreation Questions: Women’s Human Rights Syeda Zakia Hossain (Australia): Bangladeshi Women: Obtaining Appropriate Health Care Margarethe Hochleitner (Austria): Sex Differences and Differences in Treatment and Mortality after Myocardial Infarction |
Disabilities/Chronic Illness (Continued)
Chair/Coordinator: Gunnel Lagerström Östlund (Sweden) Annette Sverker (Sweden): Nerve Pain: Self-perceived Problems and Consequences from a Gender Perspective Gunnel Lagerström Östlund (Sweden): Lay Narratives of Rehabilitation and Recovery in Musculoskeletal Disorders |
| 4th.Session |
| Culture Effects/Migration
Chair/Coordinator: Filio Degni (Finland) Anne Sigfrid Grønseth (Norway): How to Be a Woman in Exile? Health and Suffering of Tamil Refugees in Northern Norway Filio Degni (Finland): Somali Women's Socio-Cultural Adaptation in Finland |
Alternative Ways of Healing
Chair/Coordinator: Barbara Dane (USA) Barbara Dane (USA): A Study of Thai Women with AIDS: Nourishing Body and Mind through Meditation Inger Altern (Norway): Hands and Spirit: Healing as Empowerment Anita Christensen (Denmark): Drama Therapy for/with Psychotic Children in Denmark and St. Petersburg Respectively. Intercultural Communication and Psychotherapy 1979 - 1999. |
| 5th. Session |
| Women’s Health Stories and Credibility (Workshop)
Chair/Coordinator: Nefise Ozkal Lorentzen (Norway) |
| V: Gendering Health |
Friday June 25
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| Auditorium 6, Medicine and Health Building
Capacity: 138 |
Auditorium 7, Medicine and Health
Capacity: 138 |
| 1st.Session: Keynote Speaker |
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| 2nd. Session |
| Gender and Illness; Women’s Ways of Knowing
Chair/Coordinator: Lynne Hunt (USA) Lynne Hunt (USA): Women’s Ways of Working: The Case of Special Education Inga Bryde Claus (Norway): Women’s Subjective Experience of Health in Rural Gambia and Their Way of Enabling in Coping with Health Care for Themselves and Their Children |
Health Policy
Chair/Coordinator: Rebecca Albury (Australia) Rebecca Albury (Australia): Making Public Policy for Conflicting Meaning of Infertility: Medical, Social and Personal Howard Palley (USA) and Marian Palley (USA): Politics, Demographics, Economics and a Health Agenda for American Women in the 21st Century |
| 3rd. Session |
| Gender and Illness; Women’s Ways of Knowing (Continued)
Chair/Coordinator: Valerie DeMarinis (Sweden) Erica van Roosmalen (Canada): Women’s Voices: Women’s Definition of Health and Well-Being in the Context of Everyday Life Valerie DeMarinis (Sweden): Critical Interaction among Philosophical, Theoretical and Applied Levels of Investigating How Diagnosis and Treatment Models Are Constructed for Women in Cultural and Cross-Cultural Perspectives |
Health Policy (Continued)
Chair/Coordinator: Christine Saulnier (Canada) Cizel Ixbalanque Zea Iriarte (Guatemala): Gender Perspective in the Field of Public Health Christine Saulnier (Canada): Engendering Health Policy: Translating Lessons Learned from Canada Katherine Side (Canada): Whose Children? Analysing Children’s Health Initiatives in a Northern Community |
| 4th. Session |
| The Impact of Violence on Women
Chair/Coordinator: Kaarina Kailo (Canada) Kaarina Kailo (Canada): Healing Sexual Violence with the Sauna, Sweats and Woman-Positive Mythic Discourse Elizabeth Burke (USA): Hospital-Based Domestic Violence Advocacy: Evaluation of a Model Program |
Uses/Abuses of Alcohol & Drugs
Chair/Coordinator: Sara Gutierres (USA) Grazyna Zajdow (Australia): Women’s Experience of Methadone Alexa Franke (Germany): Health of Women and Their Consumption of Alcohol and Medicine: A Salutogenetic View Sara Gutierres (USA): Factors Influencing Women’s Vulnerability to Drug Abuse |
| 5th. Session |