166607 Overview: Why Integrate Public Health and Medicine

Saturday, November 3, 2007: 1:30 PM

Lily Ann Velarde, PhD, MPA, CHES , Rmphec, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
The purpose of this presentation is to relay the history of public health and medicine and to lay the foundation for future integration of public health and medicine.

Learning Objectives:
Discuss the orgins of public health as it relates to medicine and describe how they forsee medicie and public health roles in the future.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No
Any institutionally-contracted trials related to this submission?

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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