3221.0 International Environmental Health Issues

Monday, November 8, 2010: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Oral
This panel discusses the importance of environmental health in global health & international medicine, and reviews a variety of innovative EH projects in the developing setting
Session Objectives: Discuss the importance of environmental health in global health & international medicine Review the variety of innovative EH projects in the developing setting
Moderator:
Merri Weinger, MPH

12:30pm
Environmental Health Status and Health Concerns of Pata Rat Romani
Jennifer Hall, EdD, Catherine Zeman, PhD, Diane Depken, EdD and Ioan Bocsan, MD, PhD
     
12:48pm
Global health and international medicine project: Evaluating the environmental health benefits of using hybrid Justa Stoves in Sabanas, Honduras
Matthew Eaton, MPH, Erin Steele, MPH, Lauren Stanisic, MPH, MSW and Sofia Khan, MPH
        
1:06pm
Indexing the environmental costs of public health achievements: What international comparisons teach us
Andrew Jameton, PhD, Elizabeth Hoffman, Ge Lin, PhD, Anna Walburn and Richard Yoder, PE
     
1:24pm
Rapid Urbanization and the Challenge of Social Justice: The Case of Latin America
Dr. Luiz Augusto Cassanha Galvao, MD, MPH, Marilyn Rice, MA, MPH, CHES and Kira Fortune, PhD, MIH, MA
     
1:42pm
Environmental Monitoring for Public Health and Policy Change in Central Peru: Bringing Life Back to the Mantaro Watershed
Fernando Serrano, Assistant Professor
     

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

Organized by: International Health
Endorsed by: Environment, Social Work

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

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