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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA |
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3213.0: Monday, December 12, 2005: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| In this session, contributors to War and Public Health (Oxford University Press, 1997; APHA, Softcover Updated Edition, 2000) and others will present papers on the impact of war on public health and on actions available to public health workers to help prevent war and its public health impacts. Presentations will address the health impact of specific recent wars on military and civilian populations, including a discussion of torture in Iraq and elsewhere; the role of physicians in the military; new threats related to nuclear weapons; and the military policy of the United States. | |||
| Learning Objectives: At the end of the session participants will be able to recognize the impact of war on public health and identify actions public health workers can use to prevent war and its public health impacts. | |||
| Victor W. Sidel, MD Barry S. Levy, MD, MPH | |||
Consequences of the war in Iraq for active duty military and veterans ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} Ann G. Hirschman, RN-C, FNP | |||
| Public health and conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo – Sustained elevations of mortality after 6 years of war Ben Coghlan, MBBS, MPH, Richard Brennan, MBBS, MPH, Pascal Ngoy, MD, David Dafora, MD, Brad Otto, BA, Mark Clements, BSc, PhD, Tony Stewart, MBBS, MAppEpid | |||
| World report on violence and health Avid Reza, MD, MPH, Mark Anderson, MD, MPH | |||
| Physician-Soldier: A moral dilemma? -- Victor W. Sidel, MD and Barry S.Levy, MD, MPH | |||
| Discussion | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Peace Caucus | ||
| Endorsed by: | APHA-Committee on Women's Rights; International Health; Maternal and Child Health; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Public Health Nursing; Socialist Caucus | ||
The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA