The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA

Abstract #48606

Rafael Moure-Eraso, PhD, Department of Work Environment, University of Massachusetts Lowell, One University Avenue, Lowell, MA 01854, 978-934-3271, Rafael_Moure@uml.edu

Comprehensive approaches to environmental and occupational health hazard prevention, considered simultaneously, has been a concern of the United Nations for the last 15 years. It is important to stress the concept of integration as an essential component of sustainable development. It is necessary to develop an alternative to the view of "development of global free markets" (neo-liberalism) as the only ideology of a nation's development. The teaching of sustainable development at the university level in developing countries is creating the beginning of an ideologic alternative to the neo-liberalism paradigm. A discussion of the "Declarasion of Hermosillo" --the product of an international conference in Hermosillo Mexico on this theme --will be presented and discussed.

Learning Objectives: At the end of this presentation, participants will learn

• How to start the process of developing an alternative method for economic development in third world countries different from neo-liberalism. 2)To understand the international academic opportunities on sustainable production that integrate occupational and environmental health 3)Be able to evaluate and discuss the declaration on sustainability and integration developed in the international conference in Hermosillo Mexico in 2002.

Keywords: Sustainability, Third World

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.