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Health Promotion and Medical Care in Rural Uganda

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 : 5:10 PM - 5:30 PM

Linnea Capps, MD, MPH , Doctors for Global Health, Brooklyn, NY
Gerald Paccione, MD , Department of Internal Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
DGH has partnered with Kisoro District Hospital in remote southwestern Uganda since 2005.  This partnership also includes Albert Einstein College of Medicine and its affiliated hospital Montefiore in the Bronx, NY.  Residents and students work in this very low-resource hospital and in the surrounding communities.  There are multiple community-based projects including training of village health workers,  cervical cancer screening, screening for and treating malnutrition, and treating chronic disease.  The projects span both hospital and community, engage medical students in global health and accompany the village health workers and their communities.

Learning Areas:

Advocacy for health and health education

Learning Objectives:
Describe the collaborative work of Doctors for Global Health in Uganda

Keyword(s): International Health, Social Justice

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: This is my area of expertise and work.
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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