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    State-of-the-Art Session

    Women’s Health

    Dr. Claire McLintock Memorial Session: Women’s Health at the Front Line

    SOA 07.1 - Syndemics in Women’s Health: Poverty, Social Exclusion and Clustering of Thrombotic and Hemostasis Disorders

    Sunday, June 25, 2023
    08:00 – 08:23 ET
    Room: 710A
    Session Available As: On-Demand

      Speaker(s)

    • Barry Kevane, MB PhD

      Consultant Haematologist
      Mater Misericordiae University Hospital & University College Dublin
      Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

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    Learning Objectives:

    • Understand the basis for syndemic theory and the benefits of applying a syndemic framework when investigating disease aetiology in disadvantaged populations
    • Understand the effect of poverty and marginalisation on life-long health outcomes
    • Understand the role of low socio-economic status, bio-psycho-social factors, marginalisation and discrimination in modulating vascular and thrombotic risk in women