3348.0 The Politics of Public Health Data: the mainstreaming of social justice in data systems and monitoring health inequities -- possibilities and problems

Monday, November 8, 2010: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Oral
The presentations in this session will critically examine issues of social justice and public health in relation to public health data systems and monitoring of health inequities, including both resistance to and cooptation by efforts to minimize the political issues at stake.
Session Objectives: Participants who attend this session will be able to: 1) Discuss issues of social justice and public health in relation to public health data systems 2) Discuss issues of social justice and public health in relation to monitoring of health inequities
Organizer:
Nancy Krieger, PhD
Moderator:
Catherine Cubbin, PhD

2:30pm
Introduction to: The Politics of Public Health Data: The mainstreaming of social justice in data systems and monitoring health inequities -- possibilities and problems
Catherine Cubbin, PhD
2:35pm
Measuring Social Determinants of Health within Statistics Canada
Jillian Oderkirk, Director
     
2:50pm
Closing the measurement-action gap in health inequities
Kumanan Rasanathan, Dr
3:05pm
Inside "Inside the neighborhood": Data, politics and participatory democracy in a Venezuelan intersectoral program
Carles Muntaner, MD, PhD, Haejoo Chung, RPh, MSc,PhD and Qamar Mahmood
     
3:20pm
Healthy People 2020 and social determinants of health: A national policy tool for health equity or continuing inequity?
Shawn D. Kimmel, PhD

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

Organized by: Spirit of 1848 Caucus

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

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