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3413.0: Monday, November 05, 2007: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM | ||||
Oral | ||||
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| This session presents the views of experts on the decline of public hospitals and clinics and its effects on the care of the local disenfranchised population. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: This session’s objective is to increase audience members’ awarness of the history of funding reductions to public hospitals and clincs, the extent of those reductions, the forms they take, and the effects on the local populations. | ||||
| Moderator(s): | Vivian G. Valdmanis, PhD | |||
| 4:30 PM |  | Public Hospitals, Past, Present, and Future Dennis Paul Andrulis, PhD, MPH | ||
| 4:50 PM | | Closure of Philadelphia General Hospital: Politics and effects David B. Smith, PhD | ||
| 5:10 PM | | Economics, politics, and patient care: Who is really being hurt?" Simon Piller, MD | ||
| 5:30 PM | Status of Charity Hospital in New Orleans 2 years after Katrina James Moises, MD | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | ||||
| Organized by: | Health Equity and Public Hospitals Caucus | |||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | |||
The 135th APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 3-7, 2007) of APHA