XVIII IEA World Congress of Epidemiology

XVIII IEA World Congress of EpidemiologyEpidemiology in the Construction of Health for All: Tools for a Changing World
September 20-24, 2008 Porto Alegre – Brazil
IEA International Epidemiological AssociationABRASCO, the Brazilian Association of Collective Health
Website: http://www.epi2008.com.br/ingles/index.php
Call for abstracts: http://www.epi2008.com.br/ingles/trabalhos/index.php
Construction: Epidemiology is one of several disciplines, and epidemiologists one of several categories of social actors involved in improving population health. The word construction emphasizes the key role of epidemiology, a discipline which integrates those around it, in this multi- and trans-disciplinarity task.
Health for All: In reemphasizing this now traditional motto, we highlight epidemiology’s role at national and local levels in developing, maintaining and renovating systems offering health care to whole populations. Within this context, issues related to equity and to inclusion of disadvantaged population groups are essential. The recent Brazilian experience with a universal health system will be highlighted.
Tools: Epidemiology is largely about tools for studying disease frequency, for establishing exposure-disease relationships, for testing health interventions and for evaluating health systems. The idea of tools also extends to the construction and evaluation of preventive and curative health services, so as to permit health workers at all levels to provide evidence-based care.
Changing World: The Congress will highlight the many changes occurring in the early 21st Century: demographic and epidemiological transitions; environmental alterations; the growth in research capacity for addressing health problems around the world; and the widening gap in health status between the rich and poor found both between and within nations and accompanied by a global divide in access to the benefits of scientific progress.
Possible topics are:.
· Collaboration between epidemiology and other research disciplines
· Epidemiologists and policy-makers: how to work together
· Access to scientific information
· Epidemiology and the Millennium Development Goals
· Epidemiology and primary health care
· International and intra-national inequalities in health
· What can other countries learn from the successes and failures of the Brazilian experience?
· Epidemiology in health systems and policy research
· Epidemiology in the development, implementation and evaluation of clinical and public health guidelines
· Epidemiological methods for decentralized health management
· Translation of research findings into practice
· Health promotion, disease prevention and surveillance for non-communicable diseases
· New paradigms for disease causation: from the molecule to the population
· Life course epidemiology
· Global trends in health and in its determinants
· New exposures and new diseases
· Terrorism and violence: threats to public health
· The eminence of new pandemics
· Environmental change and public health
· Managing noncommunicable diseases in low and middle-income countries


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