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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
Mohammad Akhter, MD, MPH, American Public Health Association, 800 I Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20001, 200 - 777 - 2486, mohammad.akhter@apha.org
This paper reports on the author’s participation in the March 2002 7th International Conference, held in Kuwait, of the Islamic Organization for Medical Sciences (IOMS), on ‘Globalization, Development, and Health Care in the Islamic World.’ The Conference brought together about 70 Islamic medical specialists, public policy analysts, public health practitioners, and clerics, from Egypt, France, Germany, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Saudi Arabia. Several resource people from non-Islamic countries were also invited. Papers presented covered social and cultural aspects of globalization; globalization, health and the World Trade Organization; globalization, health and economic development; globalization - ethical and equity issues; and globalization, human rights and behavior. At the end of the APHA session, participants can expect to have an appreciation of the diversity of views on globalization in the Islamic world, an understanding of specific concerns among Islamic thinkers on health and globalization, and a sense of what at least one key Islamic NGO would like to do about the matter.
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Keywords: International Health, Politics
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.