4397.0 Vulnerable Across the Lifecycle

Tuesday, October 30, 2012: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Oral
Public health is concerned with the health-related needs of vulnerable populations, across individuals' lifespan and throughout the life cycle of communities. In Session 4397.0 learn about ethical theories and their practical applications to public health work with vulnerable populations, including children, refugees and asylum seekers, sexual minorities, and seriously ill older adults.
Session Objectives: Compare theoretical and analytical approaches to contemporary concerns of public health ethics across the human life cycle.
Moderator:
Sean Philpott, PhD, MSBioethics

4:30pm
Case of childhood obesity: Identified and statistical lives saved and the moral obligation to overcome victim and alleviation bias
Joseph E. Balog, PhD
  
4:50pm
Ethical and professional considerations providing medical evaluation and care to refugee asylum seekers/torture survivors
Ramin Asgary, MD, MPH
5:10pm
Queer Medicine: Teaching, Learning & Practicing
Craig M. Klugman, PhD, Jennifer Bard, JD, Sean Philpot, PhD and Brian Riedel, PhD
5:30pm
Preventing and relieving suffering among seriously ill older adults: Reframing the dialogue to expand consciousness of relational meanings and contexts
Mary E. Morrissey, PhD, MPH, JD

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

Organized by: Ethics SPIG
Endorsed by: Socialist Caucus, Women's Caucus

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

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