<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)</b> <a href="mailto:ruglucia@paho.org">ruglucia@paho.org</a><br> <a href="mailto:EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org">EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><em><b><i><font face="Arial" color="#993300" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #993300; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">XVIII IEA World Congress of Epidemiology
<br></span></font></i></b></em><em><b><i><font face="Arial" color="#993300" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #993300; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Epidemiology in the Construction of Health for All: Tools for a Changing World
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">September 20-24, 2008 Porto Alegre – Brazil</span></font></b>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">IEA International Epidemiological Association<br>ABRASCO, the Brazilian Association of Collective Health
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Website: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.epi2008.com.br/ingles/index.php" target="_blank">
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Call for abstracts: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.epi2008.com.br/ingles/trabalhos/index.php" target="_blank">
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><strong><b><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Construction:</span></font></b></strong><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2">
<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Epidemiology is one of several disciplines, and epidemiologists one of several categories of social actors involved in improving population health. The word
<em><i><font face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">construction</span></font></i></em> emphasizes the key role of epidemiology, a discipline which integrates those around it, in this multi- and trans-disciplinarity task.
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><strong><b><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Health for All:</span></font></b></strong><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2">
<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> 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.
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><strong><b><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Tools:</span></font></b></strong><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2">
<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> 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.
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><strong><b><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Changing World:</span></font></b></strong><span><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2">
<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> 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.
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Alvaro Matida, Secretário Executivo da Abrasco</span></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="1"><span lang="PT-BR" style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro - RJ – Brasil 21041-210</span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="1"><span lang="FR" style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Tel. 55-21-2598-2527 Tel.Fax. 55-21-25608699 ou 2560-8403 <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.abrasco.org.br/" target="_blank">
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