Title: WFPHA - 11TH WORLD CONGRESS ON PUBLIC HEALTH
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Section/SPIG: International Health
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On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we are very pleased to invite you to attend the 11th World Congress on Public Health and the 8th Brazilian Congress on Collective Health, to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from Aug. 21-25 , 2006.
Promoted by the World Federation of Public Health Associations and the Brazilian Association of Collective Health, the congress will be a major scientific event in Latin America, bringing together health professionals, teachers, researchers, managers, national and international Public/Collective Health leaders and all those interested in debating, reflecting, and facing the theoretical and practical challenges of public health.
The scientific program has been developed in a way to showcase the diverse dimensions of the central theme – Public Health in a Globalized World: Breaking Down Social, Economic and Political Barriers.
Abstracts submissions:
-Deadline to abstract submission online: Jan. 20, 2006.
-Deadline to abstract submission by post: Jan. 13, 2006.
Themes
A. Global Actions on the Social Determinants of Health.
A.1. Gender Discrimination, War and Terrorism, and Religious Beliefs: challenges for Public Health.
A.2. Over-Consumption, Hunger and Public Health.
A.3. The Freedom to Breathe: Fighting for Clean Air All Over the World.
A.4. How to guarantee decent and safe jobs and employment?
A.5. International Trade of Drugs and Arms: Challenges for Public Health.
A.6. The Public Health Challenges of Injuries and Violence
A.7. Health surveillance as essential technology to promote life.
A.8. Demographic Trends in An Overpopulated World. How Many More on Planet Earth?
A.9. Lifestyle Choices and Overweight/Obesity are Global Public Health Problems
B. Global Governance, Citizen Participation and the Right to Health.
B.1. Community Participation, Empowerment, and Health Promotion.
B.2. For a Borderless World: Migration and Health.
B.3. No Races, No Ethnic Groups, No Countries: Public Health, a Right for Everyone.
B.4. Integrating Gender into Public Health: Achievements and Challenges.
B.5. Reproductive Health in The 21st Century - Human Rights or Basic Needs?
B.6. Poverty, Development and Health: Are the Millennium Development Goals Enough?
B.7. The Right to Water, Public Health and National Sovereignty.
C. Promoting Equitable Healthcare Systems in a Competitive World.
C.1. Diffusion of Innovations in Health: The Competitive Advantages of Universal Public Health Systems.
C.2. Health and Welfare Systems after the Reforms in the 1990s: Success Stories and Failures.
C.3. Markets in Health Services - Public Health Faces Patient Mobility.
C.4. Health Policy and Systems Research: A Neglected Arena.
C.5. The Future of Health Professions Practices in the Face of Technological Development and Greater Volumes of Information.
C.6. Globalization and Health Professionals’ Migration.
C.7. Who Should Regulate the Quantity and Quality of Labor in Health?
C.8. Building Public Health Capacity in a Globalized World.
D. New Frontiers in Science and Technology: What Does it Mean for the Public Health?
D.1. Technological Developments and Access to Drugs and Technology.
D.2. Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health: Global Trade and Its Public Health Impact
D.3. Food Supply Versus Transgenic Food/Genetically Modified Organisms: Risk’s for the World’s Public Health?
D.4. Ethical Issues in International Research on Human Health: The Double Standard Controversy.
D.5. Bio-threats and the Public Health Response
D.6. Evaluation Research and Information Systems Improve Public Health Knowledge
D.7. Confronting Global Epidemics
E - Others
There are two alternatives for sending your paper:
· Online: To access the form the person must be registered at the Web site <www.wfphacongress06.com,> since it is available only in a restricted area.
· By post: to the Congress Secretariat. The abstracts should be sent in a diskette or CD-ROM (RTF or Microsoft Word format), along with 3 (three) printed copies in 8.5”x 11” page format. The printed abstract must be identical of the one in the diskette or CD-ROM.
In case of submitting more than one abstract, each abstract must have a diskette or CD-ROM as well as the copies of the printed version.
The material should be sent to: MÉTODO EVENTOS - Av. Ataulfo de Paiva 1251/ gr.410 - Leblon - Rio de Janeiro 22440-031 - Brazil
Make sure that the file does not contain virus.
* In case that the author decides to send the abstract by email, do not send it by post and vice-versa.
* If sending by post, the registration form of the author must come together with the abstract and the diskette or CD-ROM.
For more information, visit the Web sites: <www.abrasco.org.br> or <www.wfpha.org>.
--Executive Secretariat
Método Eventos
inscricao@saudecoletiva2006.com.br
Av. Ataulfo de Paiva, 1251, grupo 410, Leblon, Rio de Janeiro/RJ
CEP: 22440-031
Fax: (21) 2274-1941
Tel: (21) 2512-0666
Catherine Hayes
Program Coordinator
World Federation of Public Health Association
Tel: 202-777-2506
Fax: 202-777-2533
Catherine.Hayes@apha.org