272876 Health Reform: Organizing, Occupying and Activism in an Election Year

Tuesday, October 30, 2012 : 1:30 PM - 1:50 PM

Martha Livingston, PhD , Professor of Health and Society, Old Westbury, NY
     
This abstract will place into an appropriate historical, economic and political context the past year's worth of health reform activism including the Affordable Care Act and it's encounter with the Supreme Court, the Occupy movement, state movements for more comprehensive reform and resistance to the ACA and more comprehensive reform efforts.

Learning Areas:
Advocacy for health and health education
Public health or related laws, regulations, standards, or guidelines

Learning Objectives:
1)describe the significant health reform activities that have occurred over the past year. 2)analyze these health reform efforts and activities placing them in a historical, economic and political context

Keywords: Health Reform, Advocacy

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have taught about ,written about, and organized for health care for all for most of my adult life.
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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