Revisiting Primaray Health Care: Now More than Ever

Revisting Primary Health Care: Now More than Ever--Zafer Oztek

Brazilian Health System Primary Health Care in Action --Jose Gomes Temporao

Primary Health Care- Now, more than ever --Tim Evans

Civil Rights and Public Health

Media, Child Rights, Ethics, and Child Health --Kadriye Yurdakok

Child rights in the context of training of health professionals --Adem Arkadas

Public health approach to violence prevention and treatment -- F. Nur Aksakal, Jr.

Geospatial Information, GEOSS, and Public Health

Geospatial information: Public health needs and wishes -- Samir Banoob

Building a Global Earth Observation System of Systems-GEOSS and Specific actions in the Health domain--Giovanni Rum

Meningococal Meningitis in Africa: The MERIT initiative--Eric Bertherat

Development of a Sand and Dust Storm Warning System (SDS WAS) and its impacts on health decision making--Jose M. Baldasano

New Trends in Public Health Education and Training-Consolidating a Profession: Linking Challenges, Essential Functions, Competencies, Performance and Research

Development of core public health competencies --Anders Foldspang

Bridging the gap between the competencies,learning and performance: Applied public helath management capacity building--Josef Amann

Public Health Associations and Policy Development: Do we influence public health policy?

ABRASCO- An Institution Perspective --Jose da Rocha Carvelheiro

Evidence for policy: the experience of the Public Health Association of Serbia--Srmena Krstev

The Role of AMOSAPU in Regulating Tobacco Consumption in Mozambique-- Martinho Dgedge

Policy Advocacy One Step at a Time: Lessons learned over the years-- James Chauvin

Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety

Role and importance of veterinarians in public health --Tjeerd Jorna

A Global View of Food Safety --Michael P. Doyle

Emerging Food borne pathogens --irfan Erol

Core Public Health Competencies

Closing the gap between leadership and mangement demands on public helath systems-- Joseph Dwyer

Evaluation of metabolic syndrome prevalence in Eskisehir province--Selma Metintas

Core competencies: Ensuring the voice of the public health workforce--Ted Bruce

Training Multidisplinary Health Workers I

Training, employment and performance of public health workers in Latin American and the Caribbean-- Laura Magana

Role of policy models to facilitate multidisciplinary training of health workers at doctoral level --Marino J. Gonzalez

Our contribution to international public health workforce development: Training at the Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine --Yehuda Neumark

Medicine, mobility and global health-- Kayvan Bozorgmehr

Controlling the Tobacco Epidemic

The critical role of abstinence self-efficacy in predicting smoking cessation among quit intenders -- Nelson C.Y. Yeung

Smoking and percieved health among primary school students in Hong Kong -- Man Ping Wang

Environmental and Occupational Health II

Test-retest reliability of a questionnaire used to evaluate programs for preventing mercury exposure from gold products-- Volney de M. Camara

Incidence of self-reported, non-fatal, on-board injuries among Sri Lankan flight attendants--Suneth Agampodi

Strategic Approach to Chemical Management--Peter Orris

Global occupational health--Leslie Nickels

Global plan of action for workers' health--Leslie Nickels

Health Problems of Migrants, Refugees and Minorities II

Migration and perinatal health surveillance-- Mika Gissler

An exploratory study of health seeking behavior & reproductive health problems of migrant women construction workers, Mumbai, India--Shubha Nagesh

Infectious disease surveillance, response, and control among rural-to-urban migrant workers in Shangai-- Jane Mingjia Zhu

The impact of discrimination in immigrant workers' health in Spain (ITSAL Project)--Andres A. Agudelo-Suarez

Hidden violence is a silent rape--Ines Keygnaert

Improving Performance and Productivity of the Health Team II

Blowing the whistle-- Monika Habermann

An intrapartum care strategy with two distribution points model-- Alfonso Rosales

The use of Omaha model to follow up pregancy at home--Gulbu Tanriverdi

Improving health care performance by strengthening health staff motivation in transitional countries--Iryna S. Kyzyma

Values oriented to coordination in integrated health CARE organizations--M. Luisa Vazquez Navarrete

Poverty, Health and Development: Acieving the Millennium Development Goals II

Strengthening the immunization program through involvement of graduating health professionals and practicing health care extension workers-- Hottessa Melaku Samuel

Pellagra: A diagnosis to be taken in acount of the 21st century-- Corina-Aurelia Zugravu

Windows of opportunity offered by the national immunization days-- Leonor MP Santos

Collaborative Public Health Research in Diverse International Contexts: Forging Partnerships, Conducting Aassessments, Adapting and Testing HIV Prevention Interventions in Brazil, Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan

Collaborative Public Health Research in Diverse International Contexts: Forging Partnerships, Conducting Aassessments, Adapting and Testing HIV Prevention Interventions in Brazil--Rogerio Pinto

Reducing HIV/STI risk and alcohol use among women sex workers in Mongolia--Susan Witte

HIV prevention with heroin using female sex workers in Tajikistan--Anne E Brisson

Project Renaissance: A relationship-based HIV/STI intervention fo rinjection drug users--Anne E. Brisson

Health Policy Processes in India, Vietnam and China - Findings from HEPVIC Project

Health policy processes from Vietnam: Findings from the HEPVIC project--Thanh Huong Nguyen

The process and implications of rural institutional delivery policy in Guangxi Autonomous Region, China-- Xu Qian

Emerging comparative findings--The Leeds Team, with HEPVIC team

International Health Worker Migration: Current Trends Challenges and Potential Solutions

Global trends in interational migration of health workers--Pascal Zurn

Health rofessional mobility on the European agenda: Examples, trends, and next steps-- Guido Offermanns

WHO Code of Practice on the international recruitment of health personnel--Jean-Marc Braichet

Initiatives addressing health worker migration concerns--Mubashar Sheikh

International Cooperation between University

International public health cooperation between universities--Ulrich Laaser and Luka Kovacic

Eurostat's publish health data and indicators--Hartmut Buchow

Networking public health networks in SEE-countries - the MetaNET project--Doris Bardehle

Cooperation in public health research and teaching in SEE countries--Jadranka Bozikov

Experience with university partnership between India, Turkey, Nigeria and Germany in the field of public health--Bassey E. Antia

Challenges of international collaboration in public health education--K.R. Thankappan

Strengthening Health Systems through Quality Improvement in Public Health Education

Welcome and Introduction of the topic--Judy Overall

Global community of practice: Public health education taskforce--Alena Petrakova

Validation and testing of the self-assessment tool for public health education in sub-saharan African countries--Kuku Voyi

Lessons learned: Developent of a QA system for pharmacy education--Ian Bates

Global Health Workforce Alliance perspectives of scaling up education and training of health professionals--Erica Wheeler

Symposium on Health Inequalities: From Childhood to Old Age

Effect of exposure to poverty, biological vulnerability, and early psychosocial vulnerability on the occurence of asthma attacks among seven year olds--Louise Sequin

Effect of current, lagged and longitudinal exposure to pverty on children's health trajectories--Beatrice Nikiema

A gender and life course perspective o n health and function in the urgan elderly populations--Maria-Victoria Zunzunegui

Life course social conditions and comorbidity linked to fraility--Maria-Victoria Zunzunegui

Using Innovative Social Mobilization and Capacity Building Approaches to Reduce Child Mortality by Increasing Immunization Rates

Improving and sustaining immunization coverage in Kyaka health sub-district, Kyenjojo district, Uganda (VHT)--D.K. Sekimpi

Improving EPI coverage by strengthening the capacity of graduating health care professional and practicing health extension workers--Melaku Samuel

Social mobilization and capacity building in immunization in 3 priority districts (Keita, Konni, Madaoua) of Tahoua region, Niger -- Gagara Magagi

Revisiting Primary Health Care in the 21st Century I

Performance of lipid profile request between public and private sectors--Luciano Duro

Inequalities in the access to medicals speciality appointments in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2005--Suzana A.F.A. Penteado

Duplication of family health services-expression of user's dissatisfaction--Silvana Martins Mishima

Primary health care in Venezuela: Old strategy and new practice --Sarai Vivas-Martinez

Trends in labor contracting in the family health program in Brazil--Cristiana L. Carvalho

Successful Partnerships between Academia and Practice

Community partnerships and innovative practice to improve youth's educational and health issues in underpriviledged neighborhoods --Angele Bilodeau

Remote telemedicine in urban settings: Prognostic value of chest pain--Clareci Silva Cardoso

Global partners in anesthesia and surgery--Laura Goetz

Financing Global Public Health

Coordination, management, and utilization of foreign assistance for HIV/AIDS prevention in Vietnam--MaiHuong T. Nguyen

Public health journals' public health perspective--Bekir Kaplan

Global Health Governance: Opportunties, Challenges and Complexities

Civil Society, its organizations and global health governance-- David McCoy

Pharmaceuticals and Public Health

Pharmaceuticals and Public Health: Building and implementing a global vision for 2020-- Kamal K. Midha

Pharmaceuticals and Public Health--Erdogan Colak

Pharmaceuticals and Public Health (Turkish)--Mehet Domac

Strategies for Mental Public Health

Open minds to mental health in schools: Inclusion, child and disability rights, and prvention of stigma -- Kerim Munir

The WHO Global Programme on Mental Health and Substance Abuse--Benedetto Saraceno

Tobacco Control: A Truly Global Public Health Effort

WHO's public health strategy to implement the WHO FCTC and save millions of lives--Douglas Bettcher

The role of treaties in public health-the example of the FCTC--A. Ezra Ogwell Ouma

The Bloomberg Initiative to reduce tobacco use: Highlights and lessons learned?--Kelly Henning

The perspective of a national public health association: Moving forward collaboratively for efective global tobacco control--Bertha Maegga

Applied Research in Chronic Diseases

The effect of health beliefs about mammography and breast cancer and reminding through telephone on screening mammography again-- Hasret Yalcinoz Baysal

Does the cancer screening reduce the cost of cancer?-- Nobuo Koinuma

Strategy to support weight management in type 2 diabetes--Lihua Wu

Health Information Systems

Linking policy to practice in Armenia--Katie Qutub

A Delphi study on the impact of the interventions proposed to the GAVI alliance health system strenghtening program-- Ana Paulka Cavalcante Oliveira

Evaluation of communicable disease statistisc according to the SPO index of provinces in Turkey--Asli Davas Aksan

Health Policy Research

A qualitative study on health policies for childhood diabesity prevention in the Dominican Republic--Helda Pinzon-Perez

Health Diplomacy as an aid to human security--Jeffrey Leavett

Health sector reform in comparative perspective: An unending quest--James W. Bjorkman

Constructing of indicators system for evaluating organizational performance of centers for disease control and prevention --Yanhua Hao

Human Rights, Human Rights and Ethics

Refugee right(s) to health and education--V.P. Fynn

Integrating theories of social justice into public health intervention planning--Eric Breton

Research on Human Resources in Health

Management of the workforce in the health in the Brazilian public health system--Celia Regina Pierantoni

Dimensions of professional autonomy among Mexican nurses: Implications for health system strengthening--Allison P. Squires

Current prehospital trauma care in Kampala, Uganda --Laura Goetz

Primary care practitioners (PCP) and their health status-- Joel Ladner

School Health

Body figure perceptions and preferences among Kuwaiti female university students--Yearul Kabir

The study of the effect of physical activities on drug use change in stressed teachers--Farshad Ghazalian

Social Aspects and Health Behavior

Healthy behavior: A goal to be accomplished by Brazilian young people--Sandhi Barreto

Does alcohol cause injury: The bottle's fingerprints on the victims--Ted R. Miller

Supporting Local Health Communities

Integrating public health to healthcare local governance in Quebec--Mylaine Breton

Community interventions: Building on research evidence and implementing in local settings--Arja R. Aro

Determining effective knowledge translation of health research findings to community members of Aklavik, NWT--Janis Dawn Huntington

Evaluation of the effectiveness of primary health care in south and northeast Brazil:Methodological contributions--Luiz A. Facchini