4213.0: Tuesday, November 14, 2000: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM |
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| From Global Economics to Global Budgets: Keeping the Public in Public Health; P. Ellen Parsons Memorial Session |
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| The last decade has seen a retrenchment in health care and other social services, and the privatization of publlic goods around the globe. In the U.S., despite a boom in treaditional economic indicators, both the number of uninsured and the costs of health care continue to rise. What are the implications for workers, union members and women? In the face of international movements for economic accountability, and in the wake of national elections in the U.S., what are the prospects for the roles the government and market forces can and should play? As Director of the Harvard University Trade Union Program, Elaine Bernard will address these questions |
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement. |
| Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives |
| Facilitator(s): | Ellen Shaffer |
| Discussant(s): | Martha Livingston, PhD |
| 2:30 PM | | From Global Economics to Global Budgets: Keeping the Public in Public Health; P. Ellen Parsons Memorial Session
Elaine Bernard |
| Sponsor: | Medical Care |
| Cosponsors: | Environment; International Health; Socialist Caucus; Spirit of 1848 Caucus; Women's Caucus |