3158.0 Ecosystems and Human Health

Monday, November 9, 2009: 10:30 AM
Oral
This session will focus on describing an innovative environmental surveillance network that will empower public health practitioners to promote health. Linkages and integration of human health and different ecosystems will be examined and discussed.
Session Objectives: 1. Describe an environmental surveillance network that can be used by public health practitioners. 2. Discuss how human health and ecosystems are linked and integral to one another.
Organizer:
Lillian Mood, RN MPH FAAN
Moderator:
Lillian Mood, RN MPH FAAN
Discussants:
Laura Anderko, RN, PhD and Betty Bekemeier, PhD, MPH, RN

Introductory Remarks
10:35 AM
Urbanization impacts on coastal ecosystems and potential impacts on human health and well-being
Geoffrey I. Scott, PhD, MS, BS
11:30 AM
Strategies to reduce health hazards associated with coastal urbanization
Laura Anderko, RN, PhD
11:45 AM
Exploring social justice and environment as a social determinant of health
Betty Bekemeier, PhD, MPH, RN

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

Organized by: Public Health Nursing
Endorsed by: Socialist Caucus, Social Work

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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