Making a Difference in Global Public Health: Education, Research, and Practice

Key Public Health Actions to Revitalise Primary Health Care and Address Global Health Inequities--David Sanders

Meeting Challenges to Health Equity: The Role of Research for Health--Stephen Matlin

Challenges and Strategies: Public Health Education and Traiing of Human Resources--Mubashar Sheikh

Hugh G. Leavell Lecture
Women's Health from the Gender Perspective--Ayse Akin

A Global Health Argument for Maximizing Local and International Investment in the Public Sector

An Argument for Investing in the Public Sector while shrinking the private, non-government sector --Amy Hagopian with J. Ratevosian and W. Johnson

NGO Code of Conduct--Wendy Johnson

Climate change, sustainable places and cities: Public health making the global connections-- Ruth Passman

Public Health and Weapons of Mass Destruction: What to Do?

Public Health Biological Weapons: Whatt to Do? -- Richard Lennane

Redesigning Health Systems in a Changing World

Redefining Health Systems in a Changing (or Challenging?) World--Min. Jose Gomes Temporao

Continuing Education in Health Care Development

The Work of Permanent Health Education Facilitators for the Qualification of SUS Health Care in the Region of Araraquara, Sao Paulo, Brazil --Silvana Martins Mishima

Use of a Canadian Online Public Health Professional Development Program in the Caribbean--Hilary Robinson

Education Research Findings from Physicians in Canada -Implications for Practice and Public Health Outcomes-- Brenda Lovell

Community Health

True Aspect of Life with Asthma --Selma Oncel

How Mental Health Ministerial Orientations Generate Change in Public Health System: --Denise Aube

Are Young Adult's Mental Health's Needs Met at the Local Health Care Centre?--Pia Asbring

Embarking upon a Health Career: Mental Stress in Health Students, Rouen University Health Campus (France), 2007 --Joel Ladner

Environmental and Occupational Health II

The Psycho-social Benefits of Home: A Cross-sectional Study from Turkey--Fehminaz Temel

Pesticides Use in Salt Range Wetland Complex, Pakistan-- Fauzia Khan

The Neurotoxic Effect of High Aluminum Levels of Drinking Water in Kirazli area--Coskun Bakar

Higher Depressive Symptoms among Arsenicosis Patients--Mobarak Hossain Khan

The Blood and Hair Heavy Metal Levels in Two Districts with Different Ground Water Concentration--Dilsad Save

Electromagnetic Field Mapping and Health Status of Workers Exposed to Electromagnetic Fields in a University Hospital --Mustafa N. Ilhan

Health Problems of Migrants, Refugees and Minorities I

The Relationship of Immigration Documentation Status and Prenatal Care Adequacy with Birth Outcomes among Hispanic Women in the US --Kathleen O'Rourke

Differences in Low Birth Weight and Preterm Birth in Spanish and Immigrants Newborns --Andres A. Agudelo-Suarez

Avoiding Identities: Health between Submission and Resistance --Thereza C Coelho

Improving Performance and Productivity of the Health Team I

Local Planning-An Experience on a Primary Health Care Center in Florianopolis, Brazil -- Daniel Moutinho, Jr.

Improving Quality through Accreditation: The Health Insurance Case-- Maria de Fatima Siliansky Andreazzi

Poverty, Health and Development: Achieving the Millennium Development Goals

Historial analysis of birth cohorts not vaccinated against rubella--Samia Samad

Focus group discussion on HIV/AIDS risk behaviors ina fishermen's community of east cost, Malaysia--Niza Samsuddin

TB patients care seeking behavior and diagnosis delay in Jogjakarta province Indonesia--Riris Andono Ahmad

European Commission Workshops on Current European Union Developments in the Field of Health

The Commission activities in the field of health promotion and prevention--Walter Baer

The Health Programme 2008-2013-- Tuuli-Maria Mattila

EU Research for perinatal and maternal health--Albrecht Jahn

The European Union health portal--objectives and opportunities--Tuuli-Maria Mattila

Global Public Health Workforce Development: Challenges, Oportunties and Strategies

Public health workforce, economics and human rights--Clyde Lanford Smith

Workforce needs and development in cancer prevention and control--Hala Azzam

Community-based organizations in public health: Microcredit and its applications in improvement of family health--Padmini Murthy

Human capacity building for global public health: Role of public-private partnerships--Gopal Sankaran

Economic benefits of international collaborations in behavioral & social sciences--Sonia Suchday

Respect, Protect, Fulfill: Scaling up and human rights--Joia Mukherjee

Health Impact of Wars and Armed Conflicts

Risks of armed conflicts for international health and rescue workers--Jirair Ratevosian

Message of peace for health--Ihsan Dogramaci

Innovations in Education and Practice

Globalization of nursing education for culturally competence--Marie O'Toole

Promoting social work's community based interventions to reduce family stress--Jesse Harris

Promoting public health leadership development in the Caribbean region--Gillian Barclay

Reducing chronic disease through risk management--Sara Karrar

Encore Service Corps International--Russell Morgan

Intersectoral Action for Health: The Brazilian and Canadian Experiences

Sustainability, social development and public policies in Brazil--Ana Maria Girotti Sperandio

Intersectoral initiatives in health: Evaluative strategies--Regina Bodstein

The socio-technical network for health promotion in Brazil--Ronice M.P. Franco De Sa

Concepts and context of heatlh promotion in Canada--Margaret Hilson

Revisiting Primary Health Care in the 21st Century III

Evaluation of a Latin-American gestational weight curve and its capacity to predict inadequate birth weight: Brazilian Study of Gestational Diabetes--Gilberto Kac

Cost-benefit analysis of treatment in specialized hospital for long treatment and rehabilitation--Jasmine Pavlova

Revisiting primary health care: Lessons from China--Chaojie Liu

Community-oriented primary care (COPC): An approach for the Fahrettin Altay community--Hale Arik

Globalization and Global Health - Moving Beyond Analysis towards a New Agenda of Action

What is the global agenda for the trans-national public health community?--David McCoy

The Global Threat of Chronic Diseases III

Vitamin D status in healthy free living elderly men and women living in Canada--Roule Barake

Prevalence of physical inactivity according to behavior and sociodemographic factors in a rural population, Minas Gerais, Brazil--Gustavo Velasquez-Melendez

The prevalence and risk factors of cardiovascular diseases in Cankaya district of Ankara--Ferda Ozyurda

Facing the Brain Drain and Migration of Health Professionals

Building a professional Mexican nursing workforce: A case study--Allison P. Squires

How to Strengthen Public Health Training and Research in the Model of Europe

How to strengthen public health research and education in the model of Europe--Jacek Sitko

How to strengthen public health training and research in the model of Europe--Ilmo Keskimaeki

Public Health and Weapons of Mass Destruction: What to Do? (Part II)

Implementing the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention--Richard Lennane

Challenges to global abolition of chemical weapons--Paul Walker

Human security: Expanding the scope of public health--Paula Gutlove

Public Interests and the Pharmaceutical Industry: A Changing World for Public Health?

Universal access to essential medicines: The Brazilian experience--Reinaldo Guimaraes

The multinational pharmaceutical industry: Drug development in its political economic context--J. Warren Salmon

Trade agreements and intellectual property rights: What's new?--Ellen Shaffer

Market distortions and failures for public health: The other drug war--Maggie Huff-Rousselle

Communicable Diseases Research

Factors associated with low vaccination coverage among children in the former Soviet countries: An example of Kyrgystan--Manas K. Akmatov

The knowledge survey of intended to prisoners about HIV/AIDS in Turkey--Funda Sevencan

A questionnaire on HIV/AIDS for the dental chief officers of the American countries--Irene Tami

Evidence-based Public Health Research

Family care arrangements and early child development: Evidence from a population-based birth cohort study in Taiwan--Jennifer Chun-Li Wu

Building a comprehensive evidence base for public health interventions: Activities of the Cochrane public health review group--Rebecca Armstrong

A content analysis of Turkish newspapers: Identifying articles containing health information related to physical activity--Feryal Subasi

Family Health

Determinants of preterm birth: Pelotas 2004 birth cohort-- Mariangela F. Silveira

Public health genetics leading to healthy communities--Apryl R. Brown

The effect of patient education on knowledge, self-management behaviors--Nazli Atak

Prevalence and risk factors of febrile convulsion in between the ages of 3 months-6 years children--Gamze Can