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Poverty pandemics: How priorities of profit and military power mean murder for the poor
Poverty pandemics: How priorities of profit and military power mean murder for the poor
Monday, November 4, 2013
: 10:50 a.m. - 11:10 a.m.
New and old diseases, both infectious and chronic, ravage poor communities all over the world. While health activists and organizations try to help, powerful corporate and military interests block effective prevention and treatment and are more often the problem, not the solution.
Learning Areas:
Chronic disease management and preventionProtection of the public in relation to communicable diseases including prevention or control
Public health or related public policy
Learning Objectives:
Describe how new and old diseases, both infectious and chronic, ravage poor communities all over the world.
Keyword(s): International Health, Outbreaks
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am a founding member of Doctors for Global health and am a physician practicing in low-income communities in the U.S. I have also practiced liberation medicine in low-income communities around the world.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.
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