271570 Health as a Human Right

Monday, October 29, 2012 : 3:15 PM - 3:30 PM

Jacque Garcia, MPH , Access to Care Priority Group, New Mexico Public Health Assoication (NMPHA), Albuquerque, NM
The presentation will include a research study that involves reducing disparities in substance use screening and treatment, directed under Andrew Sussman, Ph.D.

Learning Areas:
Advocacy for health and health education
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs
Provision of health care to the public
Public health or related research
Social and behavioral sciences

Learning Objectives:
Identify themes of activists in a social justice healthcare reform movement related to what inspires them toward activism and what keeps them going in the struggle for justice. Identify tips for community organizers in fostering community members’ capacity to face obstacles in a positive and productive way. Describe the state health care reform work of the Health Security for New Mexicans Campaign. Describe how the themes of Dr. Millen’s research connects with moral, ethical, and humanitarian obligations, with health care as a human right, and with the grassroots struggle for single payer health care in our country.

Keywords: Access to Health Care, Health Activism

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