5117.0 International Health & Human Rights

Wednesday, November 10, 2010: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Oral
This session investigates International Health & Human Rights focusing on violence against women and forms of inequality which prevent access to health services.
Session Objectives: * Discuss the important role of sexual and reproductive health organizations in promoting the rights of sexually diverse populations. * Describe the prevalence and correlates of acceptance of intimate partner violence in three central Asian countries. * Explain global life expectancy and the burden of illness in a sample of the world’s countries.
Moderator:
Padmini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS,CHES

10:30am
Promoting sexual rights: Ensuring access to sexual and reproductive health services for sexually diverse populations in Latin America and the Caribbean
Shelly Makleff, MPH, River Finlay, MPH, Jennifer Friedman, MPH/MSW and Kate Rath
     
10:48am
Attitudes towards intimate partner violence (IPV) among women in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan: An empirical investigation using Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS)
Manisha Joshi, PhD student
     
11:06am
Characteristics and current efforts to reduce violence against women in Egypt: Results of the Egypt Violence Against Women Study
Garrett Dorer, MA
     
11:24am
International economic inequality as predictor of global health, life expectancy, and the burden of illness
M. Harvey Brenner, PhD
     

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

Organized by: International Health
Endorsed by: HIV/AIDS, Peace Caucus, Social Work

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

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