Millennium Development Goals: Why Still So Far? ...Augusto Paulo Silva

Panel on the Impact of Violence on Public Health

Violence and Health in Turkey--Sarp Uner

Urban Violence in Mexico: A Homicide Analysis-- Guillermo Julián González Pérez

Reforming Pubilc Health Education I

Strengthening public health education in population and reproductive health in Africa through North-South partnership: The Gates Partners Experience--Adesegun O. Fatusi

Pharmaceutical care provision by Malaysian community pharmacists via smoking cessation services--Mohamad Haniki

Changes in dental education for primary health care--Maria Celeste Morita

Adding human and social sciences in the medical education--Alma Vidales

Multidisplinary interpretation and public health training-- Josette Sin-Yee Chor

Training Multidisplinary Health Workers II

Bandeira Cientifica Project: The experience of education for public health system--Luiz F. F. Silva

Improving health management performance in Serbia--Vesna Bjegovic Mikanovic

In-Service training for primary health care --Raphael Augusto Teixeira de Aguiar

A Multidiscplinary health education program experience--Julio Baldisserotto

Controlling the Tobacco Epidemic II

Smoking and age at natural menopause in a cross sectional study--Zeynep Dilek Aydin

Tobacco, alcohol and other drugs use by students of pharmacy--.Adriano Moreira

Gender Discrimination and Violence against Women I

Action research on domestsic violence during pregnancy--Karen M. Giffin

In the United States, sexual violence costs mosre than drunk driving-- Ted R. Miller

Socio-demographic determinants of violence against Portuguese pregnant women-- Carlos Pereira

Health Problems of Migrants, Refugees and Minorities III

The Turkish versions of the revised illness perception questionnaire (IPQ-R)--Patrick Brzoska

Pregnancy and maternity health of immigrant women in Portugal-- Sonia F. Dias

Prevention strategies for elderly migrants in socially disadvantaged neighborhoods--Katrin Falk

Childbearing health and service needs of migrants and refugees to Montreal, Quebec (Canada)--Anita Gagnon

Improving Performance and Productivity of the Health Team III

Interdisciplinary practice in health care--Denise E. Pires

Capacity of senior health managers for health challenges of public health sector reform in Pakistan--Abdul Hakeem Jokhio

Improving the uptake of periconceptional folate supplementation--Danielle Mazza

Factors associated with the duration and the quality of pharmaceutical dispensing in a primary healthcare facility--Almeida Belisario

Back pain knowledge improvement through communitary health agents' qualification in Amazon region--Fabiola Olea Albieri

Poverty, Health and Development: Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (III)

Preventable perinatal mortality in Belo Horizonte, 1999: Social inequalities and the role of hospital care--Sonia Lansky

A new inequity-in-health index based on Millennium Development Goals--Hernando Gaitan-Duarte

Examining the applicability of the information-motivation-behavior skills model of HIV prevention behavior in Uganda--Michele L. Ybarra

An evaluation of the cervical screening programme in Johannesburg, South Africa--Wassila Jassat

Progress of Prevention and Control of HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis III

The "virgin" HIV puzzle: Can misreporting account for the high proportion of HIV cases in self-reported virgins?--Eva Deuchert

Determinants of correct knowledge and misconception about TB transmission among ever married women in India and Bangladesh--Aklimunnessa Khandoker

HIV/AIDS in rural areas of Brazil: Cultural implications for health promotion--Patricia Neves Guimaraes

Sex/health education as a means to prevent HIV/AIDS infection among street kids in Cote D'Ivoire--Diakaridja Soura

Improving the Health of the Socially Marginalized: Achieving policy review and sustainable change, based on 15 years experience of the WHO Health in Prisons Project

Improving the health of the socially marginalized: Is this applicable in all parts o the world?--Lars Moller

Making a difference in the mental health of those in compulsory detention--Angela Greatley

Good prison healthis good public health--Andrew Fraser

Why all WHO regions should consider the WHO health in prisons country network approach--Corey Weinstein

Making Roads Safe around the World: A Public Health, Economic, and Transporation Challenge

Introduction/overview of international road safety efforts--T. Bella Dihn-Zarr

The international road assessment program (IRAP): Improving road infrastructure--John Mumford

Improving road safety in Vietnam (Asia Injury Prewvention Foundation)--Greg Craft

Regulatory and legislative approaches to prevention of morot vehicle injury and related mortality in U.S. teenagers--Joyce Pressley

The Global Threat of Chronic Diseases I

Enhancing global capacity in the surveillance, prevention, and control of chronic diseases: Seven themes to consider and build upon-- Bernard C.K. Choi

Functional limitations associated with chronic health conditions among school-aged children in Kayseri, Turkey--Vesile Senol

Rethinking global health challenges: Towards a "Global Compact" for reducing the burden of chronic disease- Roger S. Magnusson

Problems that nurses confront in primary health care (in Kosova) in relation to diabetic patients at risk from developing foot ulcers--Bukurije Cikaj

Building Capacity for Applied Research

Psychometric characteristics of Form B of the multidimensional health locus of control scale in Iranian youth--Mahdi Moshki

Uncertainty analysis of quality adjusted life years lost--Rebecca Spicer

Building capacity for applied public health research through a community-centered academic health department--Wiliam C. Livingood

Global Governance for Health Development

Comparative analysis of primary health care policies implementation from a governance perspective--Natalia Yavich

Health sector governance: Essential intervention--Michele Forzley

Public private partnerships and implications for health care provisions--Anuj Kapilashrami

What are knowledge hubs? Contributing to health systems--Anna M. Klinken Whelan

Good Governance for Health

Morality, money, "Menschenrecht" and medicine: The Council of Europe approach to health governance--Piotr Mierzewski

Public health ethics and good governance in health--Ulrich Laaser

Panel on Partnership toward making a Difference in Global Health

Global Partnerships to Address Public Health Challenges--Sylvie Stachenko

Partnership toward making a difference in global health--Paulo Buss

Regional Cooperation of Public Health Associations: The Experience from the African Region

Working towards an African network of public health associations--D.K. Sekimpi

The Francophone Africa's public health association's network--Mathias Some

Bridging the language gap in African public health movement: Experience from Cameroon--Jean-Jacques Akamba

Tanzania Public Health Association--Bertha Maegga

The Virtual Campus in Public Health: An Initiative of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to Improve the Public Health Competencies of the Workforce

The development of the public health workforce in the region of the Americas--Charles Godue

Live Demonstration of the Virtual Camous in public health--Juan Baudilio Jardines

The Brazilian Open University of the National Health Systems--Francisco E. de Campos

Pan American Health Organization Presentation

Child and Adolescent Health Research

Reality drives design of a randomized control community based intervention--Judy Makhoul

Child labor in Pelotas: Occupational characteristics and contribution to the economy--Luiz A. Facchini

Will changes in healthpolicy improve child health status in India?--Monika Sawhney

Determination of high risk regions of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Turkey using exploratory spatial analysis--Reha Demirel

Demographic Change and Public Health

Child left behind: How US metropolitan areas are failing America's children--Barbara Krimgold

What's new about the new public health?-- Niyi Awofeso

Health status of children and youth in the USA--Caroline Barakat Haddad

Demographic transition, epidemiological transition and one possible impact: Ageism--Nesrin Cilingiroglu

Health Promotion and Behavioral Aspects

Health promotion in urban vulnerable territories in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil--Lenira Zancan

Development of body andmeditation practices in the regions of Santo Amaro and Cidade Ademar--Suzana A.F.A. Penteado

Risk and protective factors for mortality in a 35 year follow-up of 50,000 young men in Sweden--Anders Romelsjo

Adult population lifestyle, knowledge and attitudes towards health--Tanja Knezevic

International Health Cooperation and Regulation

Food and nutrition policies: Cooperation or continment?--Heather R. Yeatman

Strengthing public health systems with an international NGO code of conduct--Wendy Johnson

Analysis of public health related organizations--Miguel Angel Gonzalez-Block

Issues in School and Occupational Health

The bullying tendency among the 6th, 7th and 8th grade students in primary schools--Kamer Gur

MCH & Reproductive Health Research

Challenging the health system of the autonomous community of Cantabria in Spain--Angeles Cabria

The participatory model of risk communication: Identifying gaps in risk perception of breast cancer and screening amongst lay and professional groups--Lai Fong Chiu

Does the adherence to dietary protein recommendation from institute of medicine during pregnancy and postpartum increases body weight loss during postpartum?--Gilberto Kaz

Dissemination of parenting programs in Sweden during ten years--Anton CJ Lager

Maternal mortality in Bangladesh: Learning from the past--Ozge Tuncalp

Nutritional Research

Anorexagenic public health? - preventing obesity associated illnesses and eating disorders--Justin Thomas

Cross-national comparison of the association between race and obesity prevalence in older adults--Kiarri N. Kershaw

Overweight and obesity in adolescents in northwest Russia in 2007--Andrej M. Grjibovski

Standardization of national data collection activities for European health information on nutritional and physical activity--Grit Neumann

Evaluation of an intervention in women aimed to reduce obesity through counseling in healthy behaviors--Marcia Erazo

Predictive model for severe food insecurity for the Brazilian municipalities--Muriel Gubert

Social Determinants of Health

Social determinants of health in Taiwan--Tung-liang Chiang

Sexually transmitted diseases knkowledge, and related influential factors among males--I. Irem Budakoglu

Socioeconomic inequalities in health-related behaviors and health status in a representative sample of Greek adult population--Filippos T. Filippidis

Health behaviors and prevention demands in health students--Joel Ladner

Factors influencing the daily television watching period among 5-8 year old children--Bekir Kaplan