4120.2 Immigration Crisis:A Human Rights Perspective in Global Health

Tuesday, October 28, 2008: 10:30 AM
Oral
Human Rights perspective in global health is over-arching encompassing such areas as geographic, geopolitical boundaries, organizational, discipline diversity, social divisions or resources (rich versus poor), political, ethnicity, union environments, research versus practice, etc. Human Rights Papers focusing on solutions including best practices, promising models for the future are presented.
Session Objectives: Identify three Global Health barriers to health care services encountered by immigrants. Delineate two key global health Human Rights that should be present for all immigrants.
Moderator:
Jie Hu J_Hu2

10:30 AM
Disease Knows No Borders: Collaboration with a Passionate Response
Janet Gottschalk, RN,DrPH,FAAN
11:00 AM
Increase health promotion & disease prevention to underserved latino populations in
Patricia Alexander, RN, BSN, PHN
     
11:30 AM
Implications of fear as a public health issue
Kirk Koyama, MSN, RN, CNS

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Public Health Nursing
Endorsed by: Caucus on Refugee and Immigrant Health, Latino Caucus

CE Credits: CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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