235581 Introduction to “Power, politics, and healthy communities in societal & ecologic context: From history and evidence to transformative knowledge for action.”

Monday, October 31, 2011: 4:30 PM

Nancy Krieger, PhD , Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
  
     
The introduction will introduce and frame the objectives of the session, which are: (1) to provide critical examination of issues of social justice and public health as they pertain to the conditions – from global to local – that enable healthy communities to flourish versus block their development, and (2) to so in relation to the 3 foci of our Spirit of 1848 Caucus: the social history of public health, the politics of public health data, and progressive pedagogy for public health.

Learning Areas:
Advocacy for health and health education
Environmental health sciences
Public health or related laws, regulations, standards, or guidelines
Public health or related public policy
Public health or related research
Social and behavioral sciences

Learning Objectives:
Discuss issues of social justice and public health as they pertain to the conditions – from global to local – that enable healthy communities to flourish versus block their development

Keywords: Social Justice, Community

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am chair of the Spirit of 1848, I organized and will be moderating this session, and I have organized and moderated many previous APHA sessions.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

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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