3152.0 International Health Programs & Policy 1

Monday, October 31, 2011: 10:30 AM
Oral
During this session we will address International Health issues including the latest research on the Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative, the community run verbal autopsies in Bangladesh, sustainability of donor interventions based on a health reform project in Armenia, health decentralization in Uganda and China's impact on their health interventions in Tanzania, Mozambique and Democratic Republic of Congo.
Moderator:
Hendrika Maltby, PhD, RN

10:30 AM
Latest research on the status of the Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) worldwide: Are we still making progress?
Miriam Labbok, MD, MPH, FACPM, IBCLC, FABM
     
10:48 AM
Bangladesh – Community-run Verbal Autopsies followed by local action planning decreases maternal and child deaths in rural Bangladesh
Abdur Razzaqul Alam, MBBS, MPH and Jillian Scott, MPH
  
11:06 AM
Sustainability and institutionalization of donor interventions: Methods and results from a health reform project in Armenia
Richard Yoder, PhD, MPH, MPIA
11:24 AM
Rethinking Health Decentralization Programming: Experience and Lessons from Uganda
Michael Reeves
     
11:42 AM
China's International health diplomacy: The outcomes of China's health care interventions on local health care systems and population health in Tanzania, Mozambique, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Paul Kadetz, PhD, MPH, MSN

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

Organized by: International Health

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

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