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3132.0: Monday, November 8, 2004: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| Rafael Moure-Eraso has termed the relation between organized labor and public health a “natural alliance,” as there is a convergence between the interests and goals of both communities. If, in his words, public health is concerned with “mobilizing public resources to prevent and solve community health problems,” labor’s goal is “to protect human rights for working people through collective action.” However, if labor and public health have been successful allies in the past (for instance, within campaigns to pass Right-to Know Laws and create the Occupational Health and Safety Administration) there is not now a strong and sustained alliance between the two. Public health does not often think of labor as a strong potential partner. This session, then, has three purposes. The first is to offer evidence that organized labor possesses the resources, organizing abilities, and the goals of an equitable and healthy society that make it an ideal partner for public health, although labor’s unique issues and duties must first be understood. The second purpose is to present case studies of public health issues with which labor is engaged—the nursing and health care crisis, HIV/AIDS education and prevention, tobacco control—to understand both the promises and problems of pursuing public health goals with or within labor. The final purpose is to engage session attendees in a dialogue with panel members—all of whom work at the nexus of labor and public health—on the state of labor-public health cooperation. | |||
| Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the attendee will be able to: a. Articulate some key organizational strengths of labor that make it an effective partner for public health. b. Recognize the unique issues and obligations of labor of which public health should be aware when forming a partnership with labor. c. Become familiar with the diverse public health activities in which organized labor is engaged. | |||
| Gregory DeLaurier, PhD | |||
| David Kotelchuck, PhD, MPH | |||
| Gregory DeLaurier, PhD | |||
| Building successful partnerships with labor: The example of the Organized Labor and Tobacco Control Network Gregory DeLaurier, PhD, Elizabeth M. Barbeau, ScD, MPH | |||
| Working with Labor Unions & HIV/AIDS in the 21st Century Karen McMillan, MS, CHES | |||
| Insuring the Public’s Health Through Union Activism Mike Nilsson, RN | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Labor Caucus | ||
| CE Credits: | Nursing | ||