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Session: Human Rights and Ethical Issues in Health Education
3146.0: Monday, November 06, 2006: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Oral
Human Rights and Ethical Issues in Health Education
This session focuses on human rights and ethical issues in health education. Presenters in this session will discuss the importance of considering human rights in the development of academic curricula, in media representations of population groups and emerging infectious diseases, and in school-based condom availability.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) in this session will be able to: 1. Describe the depiction of emerging infections in the mainstream media and how these representations serve to characterize certain population groups and affect health outcomes. 2. Describe the integration of health and human rights in the development of a curricula for community health workers. 3. Discuss the implementation of sexuality education that includes school-based condom availability as an issue of social justice.
Moderator(s):Isaac M.T. Mwase, PhD, MDiv, MBA
10:30 AMEmerging infections in fiction, film and the news: A question of health and human rights
Priscilla Wald
10:50 AMA Scientific and Moral Justification for School-Based Condom Availability Programs  [ Recorded presentation ]
Joseph E. Balog, PhD
11:10 AMTrauma prevention and recovery: Training front-line workers to respond to human rights abuses and other forms of violence  [ Recorded presentation ]
Janey E. Skinner, MPH, Nora Goodfriend-Koven, MPH, Timothy Berthold, MSPH
11:30 AMA survey of perceptions, knowledge and attitudes in relation to human rights issues among health professional students in Peru  [ Recorded presentation ]
Adriana Zumarán, BA, Camila Gianella, BA, MSc, Manuel Ugarte, MD, Lorena Cano, César Ugarte, MD, Renzo Sotomayor, MD, Miriam Egúsquiza, Ursula Baertl, BA, MSc, Juan José Miranda, BA, J. Jaime Miranda, MD, MSc
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Public Health Education and Health Promotion
Endorsed by:APHA-International Human Rights Committee; Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Maternal and Child Health; Socialist Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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