3044.0 Global Issues in Mental Health

Monday, October 29, 2012: 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Oral
Moderator:
Eliot Sorel, MD

8:30am
Mental health disparities among youth living on the streets and in the slums of Kampala: Comparisons with representative national and urban school attending youth
Monica H. Swahn, PhD, Jane Palmier, JD, MPH, Rogers Kasirye and Huang Yao, MA
8:45am
Trajectories of internalizing problems among war-affected youth in Sierra Leone: The role of risk and protective factors
Theresa Betancourt, ScD, MA
9:00am
Psychosocial health of out-of-school youth in post-conflict Liberia
Christine Fu, Ph,D
     
9:15am
An evaluation of the role of psychological distress in the loss to social resources among Kurdish torture survivors
Brian Hall, PhD, MA, Ahmed Amin, MD, Paul Bolton, MBBS, DTMH, MPH and Judith Bass, PhD, MPH
     
9:30am
Community-based approach to mental health promotion in a civilian population living under military occupation
Allam Jarrar, MD
     

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Organized by: International Health
Endorsed by: Socialist Caucus

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