141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Recorded Annual Meeting Presentations (RAMP) are now available for purchase.
Only $90 for presenters, $140 for registered attendees and $200 for non-attendees.

Online Program

4233.0
International, Comparative, and Human Rights in Public Health Law

Tuesday, November 5, 2013: 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Oral
Moderator:
Heather A. McCabe, JD, MSW

12:30pm
Evolution of human rights law in World Health Organization policy and the future of human rights law in global health governance   
Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, PhD and William Onzivu, LLB, LLM
12:45pm
Litigating health rights: Can courts bring more justice to health?   
Alicia Ely Yamin, JD MPH
     
1:00pm
Toward a legal mandate for health impact assessment in the United States: Lessons from the european union   
Michelle Miller, JD, MPH
     
1:15pm
Caring for elderly parents: Evaluating family leave laws in comparative perspective   
Y. Tony Yang, ScD, LLM, MPH and Gilbert Gimm, PhD
1:30pm
Corporate liability, state responsibility, and labor rights intervention as a strategy to address a public health crisis: Developing a framework for protection of sugarcane workers in Nicaragua   
Y-Vonne Hutchinson, JD and Purvi Patel, JD/MPH
     
  

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Law
Endorsed by: International Health, APHA-International Human Rights Committee, Medical Care, Socialist Caucus, Community Health Planning and Policy Development

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