3246.0 Urban Health : Psychosocial , Economic and Environmental Dimensions

Monday, October 31, 2011: 12:30 PM
Oral
This session is concerned with improving health and access to quality care within an urban setting and will ooh at issues such as the drinking water patterns in Accra, Ghana, health issues for immigrants in an urban setting and the relationship between environmental health and urban health.
Organizer:
Padmini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS,CHES
Moderator:
Padmini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS,CHES

12:30 PM
When urban taps run dry: Drinking water patterns in low income neighborhoods of Accra, Ghana
Justin Stoler, PhD MPH MS CPH, Günther Fink, PhD, John Weeks, PhD and Allan Hill, PhD
     
12:50 PM
Importance of Urban Health and Why it Matters
Padmini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS,CHES
     
1:10 PM
Health Issues of Immigrants: Implications for urban health
Gopal Sankaran, MD, DrPH, CHES
1:30 PM
Environment and Urban Health
Cathey Eisner Falvo, MD, MPH
     

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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