4114.0 Occupational health in developing countries: A cue for social justice: **Special intersectional track on environmental and occupational justice**

Tuesday, November 9, 2010: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Oral
Session Objectives: Describe the International aspects of social justice in the field of Occupational Health and Safety in several case studies.
Organizer:
Rima Habib, PhD, MPH, MOHS
Moderator:
Nancy Krieger, PhD

10:30am
Introduction: Social Justice and the Health and Lives of Workers in Context -- An Ecosocial Perspective
Nancy Krieger, PhD
     
10:50am
Life in the Valley of Death: A Cross-Sectional Study of the Structural Determinants to Haitian Farm worker Exposure to Pesticides in the Dominican Republic
Fernando Ona, PhD, MPH, Zobeida Bonilla, PhD, MPH, Bernadette de Leon and Cheríe S. Blair, MPH
11:10am
Informal sector work in Southern Africa – social justice and workers' health
Rajen Naidoo, MD, PhD
     
11:30am
Migrant Agricultural Workers in Lebanon - Our Harvest of Shame
Rima Habib, PhD, MPH, MOHS
     

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Occupational Health and Safety
Endorsed by: Environment, Epidemiology, International Health, Socialist Caucus, Social Work

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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