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4237.0: Tuesday, November 07, 2006: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| By March, 2006, the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq had entered its fourth year and the tolls in death and injury on both sides had reached painfully high levels. Within weeks of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, long before the Iraq invasion, the American Public Health Association approved resolutions linking US policy to the geopolitics of oil and condemning US military actions in this part of the world. APHA continues to emphasize the health consequences of the war in its public policy statements and educational activities. In this session four panelists will present perspectives highlighting the costs of the Iraq war. Nancy Lessin of Military Families Speak Out will present experiences of US armed forces personnel and their families. Dr. Dahlia Wasfi (invited) will present dramatic accounts of the injuries inflicted on the Iraqi population and social fabric by the war. Dr. Doug Rokke, former US Army physicist, will review the unprecedented rates of disability following the Gulf Wars and discuss the health effects of depleted uranium munitions for US soldiers and Iraqi civilians, especially children. Economist Rod Green (invited) will summarize the impact of huge military expenditures on domestic programs impacting health. Panelists and session participants will be called on to raise and discuss possible strategies for eliminating this war, arguably the most pressing threat to health facing us today. | |||
| Learning Objectives: 1. Develop awareness of physical and mental health impact of military service. 2. Recognize patterns of disease associated with exposure to depleted uranium. 3. Identify main adverse population effects of the Iraq war for US and Iraqi civilians. 4. Articulate possible strategies for ending recurrant economically motivated wars. 5. To understand the impact of the deployment of US armed forces to Iraq on uniformed personnel and their families. 6. To learn about the injuries inflicted by the war on the Iraqi civilian population and the consequences of the war on the social fabric of the country. 7. To review the unprecedented rates of disability and adverse health effects due to depleted uranium munitions following Gulf War I and to discuss the implications for US soldiers and Iraqi civilians, especially children, for the current war. 8. To summarize the impact of huge military expenditures on domestic programs impacting health of women and children. | |||
| Doug Rokke, PhD Rodney D. Green, PhD Nancy Lessin, BA MS Dahlia Wasfi, MD | |||
| Richard J. David, MD Jonathan B. Kotch, MD, MPH Deborah Allen, ScD | |||
Martha May Elliot Forum: War, Resources and Maternal-Child Health ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Maternal and Child Health | ||
| Endorsed by: | APHA-Committee on Women's Rights; Population, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health; Socialist Caucus | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||
The 134th Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 4-8, 2006) of APHA