4341.0 The Influence of Trade and Trade Policy on Health

Tuesday, November 1, 2011: 2:30 PM
Oral
Global trade policy and practices have an effect on human health, worker safety and health, migration of health workers, access to medicines, the natural environment and democratic participation that future public health workers must be able to address. This session will look at trade practices and policies that affect health.
Session Objectives: List at least three mechanisms through which trade or trade policy are influenced, Describe at least three current issues in trade and health of concern to public health professionals.
Moderator:
Sarah E. Clark

2:30 PM
Canada - European Free Trade Negotiations
Joel Lexchin, MD
     
2:50 PM
Foreign Direct Investment and child mortality: Mexico in the early NAFTA years
Benjamin al-Haddad
     
3:10 PM
Advocacy for Explicit HS Tariff Codes for Insecticide Treated Bednets to Facilitate Trade and Increase Access to Life-saving Malaria Control Commodities
A. Elisabeth Sommerfelt, MD and Halima A. Mwenesi, PhD
     
3:30 PM
Dangerous concoctions: An update on the alcohol industries' involvement in global trade agreements and what we can do about it
Donald Zeigler, PhD
     

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

Organized by: Trade and Health Forum
Endorsed by: Environment, Public Health Education and Health Promotion, Public Health Nursing, Socialist Caucus, Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs

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

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