3148.0: Monday, October 22, 2001: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM | ||||
Oral Session | ||||
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| Colonialist ideology dominated early international public helath programs in developing countries. Modern nternational public health evolved from this heritage from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and continues to struggle with it today. We see this paradigm when we speak of immunization campaigns, target groups, or an armamentarium of interventions. Over the past five decades, the discipline emerged in its own right, shaped by changing perspectives on development in general and expanding to embrace a broader range of approaches and perspectives. In this session we well give an overview of this paradigm, give some examples of problems in the post colonial world, as well as give examples of carrying out international public health work in the shadow of colonialism. | ||||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: 1. Recognize the influence of colonialism in current international health programs 2. Identify colonialist thought in modern public health interventions 3. Discuss attempts to intervene with global health problems using a non-colonialist paradigm | ||||
| Timothy H. Holtz, MD, MPH | ||||
| A Perspective on the Colonial History of the Republic of Guinea as Reflected by the Development of a Scientific Research Center Daniel G. Bausch | ||||
| Community Health in Chiapas, Mexico: Aiding Indigenous Communities while Respecting their Autonomy Linnea Capps, MD, MPH | ||||
| Lessons from Community Buillding: Doctors for Global Health in El Salvador C. Lanford Smith, Timothy H. Holtz | ||||
| Post-colonial, post-modern, post-global: Examining the theoretical crisis in international public health S. Patrick Kachur | ||||
| Sponsor: | Socialist Caucus | |||
| Cosponsors: | Caucus on Refugee and Immigrant Health; International Health; Peace Caucus; Social Work; Spirit of 1848 Caucus; Women's Caucus | |||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work | |||