EXCITING AAPHP Sponsored MEETINGS PLANED FOR APHA
Saturday November 11, 2000 4:30 PM to 8:30 PM,
Maine Room, Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA
Title: AAPHP Membership Meeting --- Can't join in person? Call in to
360-923-2997
Sunday November 12, 2000 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM,
Harvard Room, Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA
Title: Current Hot Topics for Public Health Physicians
Short Informational Description:
Part 1. Public Health Law and the Ten Essential Services **
1 PM to 3 PM
Public Health Law and the Ten Essential Services" is jointly sponsored by
the American College of Preventive Medicine and the American Association of
Public Health Physicians"
The Institute of Medicine "The Future of Public Health" defined the
functions of Government in Public Health as being Assessment, Policy Development
and Assurance. The Ten Essential Services of Public Health further defined how
public health serves http://www.apha.org/ppp/science/10ES.htm
This session will include a discussion of whether the Ten Essential Services of
Public Health are consistent with the legal basis for state and local public
health authority. Two public health law experts - Edward P. Richards JD MPH and
Larry Gostin JD LLD will discuss this issue with a reaction and comments by
experienced local and state public health physicians. Dr. Gostin is Co-Director
of the Georgetown/Johns Hopkins Program on Law and author of the book, Public
Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9186.html
and Professor Richards is Director of The Center for Public Health Law at the
University of Missouri Kansas City School of Law http://www.umkc.edu/cphl
and co-author of Medical Care Law, Aspen (1999).
** The ACPM is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of the American College of Preventive Medicine and the American Association of Public Health Physicians.
ACPM designates this continuing medical education activity for 2 Category 1 credits toward the Physicians Recognition Award of the American Medical Association. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.
Part 2 Discussion of Topics of Importance to Public Health Physicians
The second part of the program (3 PM to 5 PM) will focus on current issues of
high importance to public health physicians and may be the basis for resolutions
submitted to the AMA House of Delegates by AAPHP. See http://www.aaphp.org/regist_Nov2000.htm
for registration information and updated details on this session.
Wed. November 15, 4:30 to 6:00PM APHA Health
Services Administration Late Breaker
Policy, Politics, and Public Health Infrastructure; Joel L. Nitzkin, MD, MPH,
DPA.