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Women's Health Conference 2025

Friday, February 7, 2025

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Healthspan vs. Lifespan

Healthspan is more important than lifespan, so why don’t more people know about it?, By Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging • May 3
https://publichealth.wustl.edu/heatlhspan-is-more-important-than-lifespan-so-why-dont-more-people-know-about-it/#:~:text=Many%20might%20agree%20that%20%E2%80%9Chealthspan,of%20death%20(Table%201).

Life Span vs. Healthspan: Eating for Longevity
https://www.uvmhealth.org/coronavirus/staying-healthy/life-span-vs-health-span

Longevity leap: mind the healthspan gap
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8460831/

Mayo Clinic Q and A: Lifespan vs. healthspan
https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-q-and-a-lifespan-vs-healthspan/

What do the terms life expectancy, lifespan, longevity and health span mean?
https://www.age.mpg.de/what-do-the-terms-life-expectancy-lifespan-longevity-and-health-span-mean

From Data to Action: Addressing Women’s Health in Eastern North Carolina

Items 1-15 of 15 (Display the 15 citations in PubMed)

1.	Disparities Between Rural and Urban Communities: Response to 18 Months of Diet and Exercise Versus Control for Knee Osteoarthritis and Overweight or Obesity. Messier SP, Monroe MG, Callahan LF, Mihalko SL, Beavers DP, Queen K, Miller GD, Losina E, Katz JN, Loeser RF, DeVita P, Hunter DJ, Quandt SA. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2025 Jan;77(1):69-76. doi: 10.1002/acr.25448. Epub 2024 Nov 11. PMID: 39400996 Free PMC article. Clinical Trial.
2.	Food Insecurity Associated with Higher Stress, Depressive Symptoms, and Lower Diet Quality among Women Caregivers in North Carolina. Butler JL, Johnson CM, Hardison-Moody A, Bowen SK. Nutrients. 2024 Jul 31;16(15):2491. doi: 10.3390/nu16152491. PMID: 39125371 Free PMC article.
3.	Racial and Rural-Urban Disparities in Maternal Cardiac Disease Care in North Carolina: A Call to Action. Moyett JM, Zambrano Guevara LM, Mallampati DP, Menard MK, Hughes BL, Small MJ, Livingston EG, Quist-Nelson J, Meng ML, Federspiel JJ. N C Med J. 2023 Jul;84(4):249-256. doi: 10.18043/001c.81277. PMID: 39302309 Free PMC article.
4.	A Path Towards Reproductive Justice: Incorporating a RJ Framework into North Carolina's Improving Community Outcomes for Maternal and Child Health Initiative. Yates L, Morgan I, Tucker C, Henderson C, Shuler TO, Cilenti D. Matern Child Health J. 2023 Jan;27(1):7-14. doi: 10.1007/s10995-022-03563-7. Epub 2022 Nov 9. PMID: 36352285 Free PMC article.
5.	The Abysmal Organization of Work and Work Safety Culture Experienced by North Carolina Latinx Women in Farmworker Families. Arcury TA, Smith SA, Talton JW, Quandt SA. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Apr 8;19(8):4516. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19084516. PMID: 35457383 Free PMC article.
6.	Implementation of the North Carolina Plan of Safe Care in Wake County, North Carolina. Austin AE, Shanhan ME, Rosemond P, Berkoff MC, Joyner C, Proescholdbell S. N C Med J. 2022 Jan-Feb;83(1):67-74. doi: 10.18043/ncm.83.1.67. PMID: 34980658
7.	The Impact of Advocacy Efforts to Improve the Care and Treatment of Incarcerated Pregnant People in North Carolina. Taormina VV, Canady M, Crockett AK. N C Med J. 2022 Jan-Feb;83(1):29-32. doi: 10.18043/ncm.83.1.29. PMID: 34980650
8.	Assessing Preconception Wellness in the Clinical Setting Using Electronic Health Data. Williams MS, Urrutia RP, Davis SA, Frayne D, Ollendorff A, Ramage M, Verbiest S, White A. J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2022 Mar;31(3):331-340. doi: 10.1089/jwh.2021.0220. Epub 2021 Dec 17. PMID: 34935481 Free PMC article.
9.	Depressive Symptoms of Latinx Women in Rural Farmworker and Urban Non-Farmworker Families in North Carolina. Arcury TA, Smith SA, Talton JW, Chen H, Laurienti PJ, Quandt SA. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2022 Dec;9(6):2351-2360. doi: 10.1007/s40615-021-01172-8. Epub 2021 Oct 25. PMID: 34697765 Free PMC article.
10.	Associations Among Food Security, Diet Quality, and Dietary Intake During Pregnancy in a Predominantly African American Group of Women from North Carolina. Gonzalez-Nahm S, Østbye T, Hoyo C, Kravitz RM, Benjamin-Neelon SE. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2022 Mar;122(3):565-572. doi: 10.1016/j.jand.2021.08.110. Epub 2021 Sep 1. PMID: 34481120 Free PMC article.
11.	Reproductive-Age Women's Experience of Accessing Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder: "We Don't Do That Here". Phillippi JC, Schulte R, Bonnet K, Schlundt DD, Cooper WO, Martin PR, Kozhimannil KB, Patrick SW. Womens Health Issues. 2021 Sep-Oct;31(5):455-461. doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2021.03.010. Epub 2021 Jun 2. PMID: 34090780 Free PMC article.
12.	Maternal and Infant Mortality in North Carolina. Pettiford B. N C Med J. 2021 May-Jun;82(3):191-194. doi: 10.18043/ncm.82.3.191. PMID: 33972278 No abstract available.
13.	10 Years Later : The Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Prevention and Public Health in North Carolina. Brody W, Kimple KS, Stanley K, Wood J, Singletary T, Nelson S, Kansagra SM. N C Med J. 2020 Nov-Dec;81(6):377-380. doi: 10.18043/ncm.81.6.377. PMID: 33139469
14.	Preterm Birth and Receipt of Postpartum Contraception Among Women with Medicaid in North Carolina. Tucker C, Berrien K, Menard MK, Herring AH, Rowley D, Halpern CT. Matern Child Health J. 2020 May;24(5):640-650. doi: 10.1007/s10995-020-02889-4. PMID: 32200477 Free PMC article.
15.	Women's Experience and Understanding of Food Cravings in Pregnancy: A Qualitative Study in Women Receiving Prenatal Care at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Blau LE, Lipsky LM, Dempster KW, Eisenberg Colman MH, Siega-Riz AM, Faith MS, Nansel TR. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2020 May;120(5):815-824. doi: 10.1016/j.jand.2019.09.020. Epub 2019 Dec 6. PMID: 31813756 Free PMC article.