From healthmaps@comcast.net Wed Jun 2 04:29:01 2004 Received: from mxe5.u.washington.edu (mxe5.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.168]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.11+UW04.02/8.12.11+UW04.05) with ESMTP id i52BSxiB117900 for ; Wed, 2 Jun 2004 04:29:00 -0700 Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc12.comcast.net [216.148.227.85]) by mxe5.u.washington.edu (8.12.11+UW04.02/8.12.11+UW04.03) with ESMTP id i52BSuKk030605 for ; Wed, 2 Jun 2004 04:28:57 -0700 Message-Id: <200406021128.i52BSuKk030605@mxe5.u.washington.edu> Received: from harriet (c-24-18-111-43.client.comcast.net[24.18.111.43]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with SMTP id <2004060211285601400g5737e>; Wed, 2 Jun 2004 11:28:56 +0000 From: "Richard Hoskins" To: Subject: 3rd Intl. Conference on Urban Health - Abstract Deadline Extended to June 30 Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 04:28:56 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0030_01C4485A.1E960060" X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=XI, Probability=11%, Report='NORMAL_HTTP_TO_IP 0.762, SUBJECT_MONTH 0, SUBJECT_MONTH_2 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __CTYPE_MULTIPART_ALT 0, __EVITE_CTYPE 0, __NEXTPART_ALL 0, __CT 0, __CTYPE_HAS_BOUNDARY 0, __CTYPE_MULTIPART 0, __NEXTPART_NORMAL 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, __HAS_OUTLOOK_IN_MAILER 0, __HAS_MIMEOLE 0, __TO_MALFORMED_2 0, __NEW_DOMAIN_EXTENSIONS_2 0, __TAG_EXISTS_BODY 0, __MIME_HTML 0, HTML_FONT_COLOR_BLUE 0.000, __TAG_EXISTS_HEAD 0, __TAG_EXISTS_META 0, __TAG_EXISTS_HTML 0, HTML_TAG_UNKNOWN 0.000' This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0030_01C4485A.1E960060 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The abstract submission deadline has recently been extended to June 30, 2004. Last year's Intl. Conference on Urban Health had a number of amazing presentations and posters using geo-spatial mapping and methods (you can see a few presentations & a pdf book of the accepted abstracts on the ISUH website), including ones that received Prizes or Honorable Mentions for student/trainee first authors. I encourage researchers using any form of geo-spatial mapping, visualization, and/or analytic methods, ** to examine the determinants of health and/or health disparities in urban populations or across metropolitan regions, or ** to present the health impact and policy implications of infrastructure development, urban planning and land use related to the economic, social and/or physical environments of cities and metropolitan regions (esp. to policy makers, community activists and lay audiences) 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, Ph.D. Society, Human Dvlpmt & Health Dept Harvard School of Public Health Boston, MA ------=_NextPart_000_0030_01C4485A.1E960060 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
The abstract submission deadline has = recently been=20 extended to June 30, 2004.
Last year's Intl. Conference on Urban = Health had=20 a number of amazing presentations and posters using geo-spatial mapping = and=20 methods (you can see a few presentations & a pdf book of the = accepted=20 abstracts on
the ISUH website), including ones that received Prizes = or=20 Honorable Mentions for student/trainee first authors.

I encourage = researchers using any form of geo-spatial mapping, visualization, and/or = analytic methods,
  ** to examine the determinants of health = and/or=20 health disparities in urban populations or across=20 metropolitan
      regions, or
  ** = to=20 present the health impact and policy implications of infrastructure = development,=20 urban planning and land
      use related to = the=20 economic, social and/or physical environments of cities and metropolitan = regions
     (esp. to policy makers, community = activists=20 and lay audiences)
to consider presenting your work at this = conference.=20
-- Alice Furumoto-Dawson

* Please see the International = Society for=20 Urban Health website for more
information, including membership: http://www.isuh.org/
* and the = conference=20 website for abstract submission information and
conference =
registration:=20 http://155.33.32.224/iuhr/conference/
The=20 Third International Conference on Urban Health
October 20 ­ 22,=20 2004
Hosted by:
The Institute on Urban Health Research
Bouve = College=20 of Health Sciences
Northeastern University
Boston, = Massachusetts,=20 USA
Call for Abstracts
Deadline for submission: June 30, = 2004
Focus:=20 Research studies or scholarly papers focusing on the determinants of =
health=20 of urban populations. Community Based Organizations are encouraged to =
submit=20 abstracts.
Areas of particular interest are: the physical and social = environment;
international disparities in urban health; = interventions for=20 improving the
health of urban populations; the role of community=20 participation in urban
health research and health care availability = and=20 access in urban setting;
urbanization and suburbanization; land use = and the=20 built environment; housing
and health; mental health, occupational = health=20 and health of migrants in
cities; strategies for protecting = vulnerable=20 populations; politics and policy;
health of cities worldwide; drug = use,=20 urbanization and infectious diseases;
public health strategies and=20 community-based practice; economic development in
cities; preventing = and=20 minimizing chronic disease; violence in urban areas;
services and = service=20 systems in cities.

Alice Furumoto-Dawson, Ph.D.
Society, = Human=20 Dvlpmt & Health Dept
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, = MA=20

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