2017.0: Sunday, November 16, 2003: 8:00 AM-6:00 PM | |||
CE Hours: 6 contact hours | |||
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| Statement of Purpose and Institute Overview: | |||
| The report, Who Will Keep the Public Health? (IOM 2002), cites policy and law as one of 8 new content areas schools of public health should teach and as part of the core competency of public health practitioners. Policy and law and their implementation are profound social determinants of health. To achieve quality and eliminate disparity, public health requires the ability to evaluate and understand how law and policy relate to all other elements of social determinants of health. This session will present the nuts and bolts of law as it relates to public health in lecture and work groups to practice skills on case studies, including: (1) the right to health in national law and treaties, such as in human rights, (2) key international trade provisions which affect public health, such as the impact of intellectual property laws on access to medicines, rules on the health labor force and medical practice in developing countries, and (3) public health law as a tool to advance the health of communities with a an overview of how law is a tool in the areas of infectious and communicable diseases, bioterrorism, genomics, research ethics, informatics and other current topics. | |||
| Learning Objectives: Participants will be able: ~to analyze and recognize the status of the public health policies and laws of their countries and whether it is supported by current science, ~to construct and develop a health promotion campaign for changes in policy and laws based on their evaluation, ~to recognize, identify and apply the law as a public health intervention, ~to assess how public health and human rights laws can be enforced, and ~to be able to find relevant sources of laws and model laws on which to base campaigns. | |||
| Michele Forzley, JD | |||
| Organized by: | Continuing Education Institutes | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy | ||