Reminder - The CDC Disability and Health Partners Meeting June 14-16, Chicago, IL
The National Center on Health, Physical Activity, and Disability (NCHPAD), along with the Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD), and National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), will be hosting the first collaborative conference on disability and health titled, CDC Disability and Health Partners Meeting: Building Healthy Communities for Everyone.
Meeting Synopsis:
The Disability and Health Partners Meeting brings key disability and health leaders together to discuss topics that address the meeting theme of Building Healthy Communities for Everyone.
For more details, please go to: http://www.aucd.org/template/event.cfm?event_id=2443
First International Congress on Child Health and Human Development
December 2-5, 2012 -- Jerusalem
Main Theme:
- Sharing global knowledge and understanding
Topics:
- Disability over the lifespan (all ages and also premature aging)
- Chronic disease over the lifespan
- Violence, abuse and maltreatment
- Suicide
- Integrative medicine, children and adults
- ADHD
- Obesity
- Eating disorders
- Positive youth development
- Pain over the lifespan
- Autism
- Child rural health
- Child and adolescent health
- Climate change
- Poverty
- Sports medicine
- Mind & body
- International public health issues and health informatics
- Women's health
- Environmental health
- Psychological issues
- Evidence based social work
- Substance abuse
- Rehabilitation
- Service, care, policy and transition
Who Should Participate?
- Professionals from all disciplines working in health and human development interested in the public health issues relevant today.
For abstracts and registration information contact: confer@isas.co.il
URL: http://www.isas.co.il
More news you might have missed this past month:
ReWalk - a vertical mobility device to help people with lower limb paralysis
http://rewalk.us/
Disability-Based Housing Discrimination
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2011/May/11-ag-646.html
Defining Beauty: Ms. Wheelchair America
http://definingbeautydoc.blogspot.com/
Bureau of Engraving and Printing Launches EyeNote™App to Help the Blind and Visually Impaired Denominate US Currency
http://www.eyenote.gov/