Call for Abstracts!

[Guest guest]

Call for Abstracts and Oral

Presentations

Deadline: April 9, 2010

Make a Commitment to Healthcare

Justice!

The

National Summit of Clinicians for Healthcare Justice, September 23-35, 2010 in Washington, DC is a

one-of-a-kind event sponsored by many of the major safety-net clinician

organizations across the United

States. This two day event is a chance for

clinicians who advocate healthcare justice to celebrate, acknowledge and

highlight the work frontline clinicians do to serve disenfranchised populations

in need of basic health care in our country. This conference gives clinicians

the opportunity to join together and have a collective voice to make quality

health care for the underserved a reality.

We

are looking for abstracts for posters and 15 minute oral presentations that

explore the nexus of clinical care and health justice from a clinician’s

perspective. We are looking for good ideas, solutions, and outcomes that

address programs, research and policies for the uninsured, underinsured, and

marginalized populations in the following areas:

Clinical Practice:

· Achieving

optimal care in chronic disease management (asthma, diabetes, heart disease,

HIV-AIDS, depression, etc.)

· Breakthroughs

and Breakdowns in Clinical Practice

· Cost-effective

Treatment Strategies for the Uninsured

· Teaching

Self-Management and Positive Health Behaviors

· Compassion

Fatigue and Self Care

· Achieving

Optimal and Equitable Birth Outcomes in High-Disparity Settings Infectious

Diseases of Poverty – TB, Parasites

· Providing

Culturally-Relevant Care in Diverse Settings

· Breaking

Through Stigma in Behavioral Health care

Community Health:

· Grand

Rounds: Case Histories of Justice and Injustice from the Field

· Promoting

alliances between public health and primary care to improve health care

outcomes.

· Using

available data to measure community health outcomes and equity

· Building

Teams: Community health Workers or Promotores

· Grassroots

community engagement to address environmental health issues (air quality,

asthma, pesticides, water quality,etc.)

State and National Health Policy:

· Radical New

Ideas for Health System Reform

· Challenges

and Opportunities in Medicaid Expansion

· When the

Stimulus Dollars Run Dry . . .

· Human Rights

in Health care

· Environmental

Justice and Health care

· Improving

Incentives and Eliminating the Disincentives for Training the Health

Professional Workforce we Really Need

Submission

of an abstract implies a commitment to make the presentation and to register for

the conference. Poster presentations will be displayed as part of 2 hour

evening poster reception. The oral presentations will be grouped in panels with

a discussant. All authors will be notified via email of abstract status by

Friday, May 21st, 2010. Please make sure your email address is correct.

Click here to submit your abstract online now!

Abstracts must be limited to 250 words. Please develop your abstract

off-line before accessing the online submission form. Use the spell check and

word count features of your word processor to check the text of the abstract

before submitting it. Learning

objectives must be described (Learning objectives WILL NOT be included in the

abstract text word count). Each contributed paper must be categorized under one

of the topics or areas of interest described in the call for abstracts.

Deadline for submitting abstracts is April 9th, 2010. Contact information for

submission is as follows:

Jillian

Hopewell, MPA,

MA

Migrant Clinicians Network

344 Flume Street,

Suite C

Chico, CA

95928

530-345-4806

jhopewell@...