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Event

12th World Congress on Public Health

Monday, April 27, 2009toFriday, May 1, 2009
Istanbul, Turkey, Istanbul, Turkey, CA

I. Public Health Education for the 21st Century (6 sub-themes)

  • Reforming public health education
  • Characteristics of high-performing schools of public health
  • The role of continuing education in health care development
  • Communication skills and devices in public health training
  • Training multidisciplinary health workers
  • Core public health competencies

II. Public Health Research & Policy Development (19 sub-themes)

  • Human rights, health rights and public health ethics
  • Global Governance
  • Public Health Diplomacy
  • Global Health Alliances for Health Development
  • Health & Geopolitics
  • The growing importance of public health genetics
  • Characteristics of high-performing public health associations
  • The impact of changing demography on public health
  • Lessons learned from community-based public health research
  • Financing Global Public Health
  • Strengthening Global Public Health Systems
  • Public Health and Research: Evidence Based Policy on Health
  • Building capacity for applied research
  • Social determinants of health and disease
  • Health effects of global environmental changes
  • International Health Regulations and Global Cooperation
  • Public health impact of armed conflicts and political unrest
  • Disaster Preparedness
  • Facing the brain drain: Responses for the health worker migration

III. Public Health Practices Around the Globe (21 sub-themes)

  • Poverty, Health and Development: Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
  • Progress on prevention and control of HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis
  • Innovative approaches on emerging diseases
  • Revisiting primary health care in the 21st century
  • Successful partnerships between academia and practice
  • Improving performance and productivity of the health team
  • Building a civil society to support healthy communities
  • Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Veterinary public health & food safety
  • Public health approach to pharmaceuticals and medical supplies
  • The role of the private sector: Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Tourist’s health & health tourism
  • The global threat of chronic diseases
  • Community mental health
  • Gender discrimination and violence against women
  • Health threats of rapid urbanization
  • Health problems of migrants, refugees and minorities
  • Child labour: Economic and health effects
  • Mass media in public health
  • Controlling the tobacco epidemic
  • Health Promotion as a strategy for intersectoral action
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