The abstract submission deadline has recently been extended to June 30, 2004.
I encourage researchers involved in any aspect of the policy implications of
affecting social determinants of health or population health disparities,
community based participatory research, or environment justice movements that
relate to the social and/or physical environments of cities and metropolitan
regions to consider presenting your work at this conference.
-- Alice Furumoto-Dawson

* Please see the International Society for Urban Health website for more
  information, including membership: http://www.isuh.org/
* and the conference website for abstract submission information and
conference
  registration: http://155.33.32.224/iuhr/conference/

The Third International Conference on Urban Health
October 20 – 22, 2004

Hosted by:
The Institute on Urban Health Research
Bouve College of Health Sciences
Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Call for Abstracts
Deadline for submission: June 30, 2004

Focus: Research studies or scholarly papers focusing on the determinants of
health of urban populations. Community Based Organizations are encouraged to
submit abstracts.

Areas of particular interest are: the physical and social environment;
international disparities in urban health; interventions for improving the
health of urban populations; the role of community participation in urban
health research and health care availability and access in urban setting;
urbanization and suburbanization; land use and the built environment; housing
and health; mental health, occupational health and health of migrants in
cities; strategies for protecting vulnerable populations; politics and policy;
health of cities worldwide; drug use, urbanization and infectious diseases;
public health strategies and community-based practice; economic development in
cities; preventing and minimizing chronic disease; violence in urban areas;
services and service systems in cities.

Alice Furumoto-Dawson, PhD
Research Associate
Dept Society, Human Dvlpmt & Health
Harvard School of Public Health

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