PHA-Exch> Epidemiology in the Construction of Health for All: Tools for a Changing World - World Congress of Epidemiology

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) ruglucia at paho.org
 EQUIDAD at listserv.paho.org

 *XVIII IEA World Congress of Epidemiology
**Epidemiology in the Construction of Health for All: Tools for a Changing
World** *

*September 20-24, 2008 Porto Alegre – Brazil*

*IEA International Epidemiological Association
ABRASCO, 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

 Alvaro Matida, Secretário Executivo da Abrasco

R. Leopoldo Bulhões 1480, sala 208

Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro - RJ – Brasil 21041-210

Tel. 55-21-2598-2527  Tel.Fax. 55-21-25608699 ou 2560-8403
www.abrasco.org.br
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