CONFERENZA INTERNAZIONALE A SALSOMAGGIORE "AMBIENTE E SALUTE" PROMOSSO DA ISDE Il 18 e il 19 Aprile 2008 si terrà a Salsomaggiore (PR), il seminario internazionale "Ambiente e salute" promosso dall'International Society of Doctors for the Environment (ISDE). E' previsto il sevizio di traduzione simultanea. Si riporta qui di seguito il programma preliminare dell'evento in questione. La scadenza per la presentazione delle schede di partecipazione è fissata per il 4 Aprile p.v. Per richiedere la scheda d'iscrizione e per ulteriori informazioni è possibile scrivere una e-mail all'indirizzo di posta elettronica della segreteria organizzativa isde@ats.it

International conference

ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH

18 - 19 April 2008

Grand Hotel Terme Astro

Via Castello 2, Tabiano Bagni - Salsomaggiore (PR)

April 18

8.45-9.00 Welcome, Authorities

I SESSION:

Role and Responsibility of the Medical Profession in Environmental Health

9.00-13.00

Chairs: Amedeo Bianco (President Italian Federation of Medical Associations - FNOMCeO); Roberto Romizi (President of ISDE Italy)

Profession values for life ecosystem protection, Maurizio Benato (FNOMCeO )

Environmental burden of disease, WHO representative

Tools to improve medical professional participations: education and information, WHO representative

Centrality of primary prevention, Maria Grazia Petronio (ISDE Italy)

Primary prevention between science and ethics: the lasting lesson of L. Tomatis, Stefano Beccastrini (ISDE Italy)

Round table - Health protection and Colleges of Physicians

12.00-13.00

Chair: Nicolino D'Autilia (FNOMCeO)

Participants:

- Giuseppe Miserotti (FNOMCeO) (to be confirmed)

- Thomas H Peirce FRCPI (Royal College of Physicians of Ireland)

- Gerd Oberfeld (Austrian Medical Association)

- Roberto Debono (Malta Public Health)

II SESSION: Climate Change and Health Effects

14.30-18.30

Chairs: Bettina Menne (WHO); Vyvyan Howard (ISDE)

WHO World Year on Climate Change and Health, Bettina Menne (WHO)

Climate Change: action to prevent and protect health effects in the more vulnerable population, Philip Michael (ISDE Ireland)

Climate change and chemical safety, Lilian Corra (ISDE Argentina)

Greenhouse gases, combustion and health costs, Vincenzo Migaleddu (ISDE Italy; WWF)

Round table - Role of health professionals

17.30-18.30

Chair: Roberto Romizi

Participants:

Simone Orlandini (Florence University)

Hanns Moshammer (ISDE Austria)

Paolo Lauriola (ARPA Emilia Romagna; ISDE Italy)

Guy Magnus (ISDE Belgium; SREH Advocacy Network)

April 19

III SESSION: Chemical Safety and Health

9.00-13.00

Chairs: Judy Stober (IFCS Secretariat); Lilian Corra (FSC IFCS)

Nanotechnology and Health: what is new? Vyvyan Howard (ISDE)

Heavy Metals: New International strategies to phase out highly toxic Lead, Mercury and Cadmiun. Nida Besbelli (WHO)

SAICM - Strategic Approach to the International Management of Chemicals, Lilian Corra (FSC IFCS)

The REACH regulation, a tool to implement the precaution and responsibility principles, Gianni Tamino (ISDE Italy; Padova University)

Environmental health: science, policy or both? Peter van den Hazel (ISDE Netherlands; INCHES)

Round table - Health Professionals can help

12.00-13.00

Chair: Vyvyan Howard (ISDE)

Participants:

Stefania Borgo (ISDE Italy)

Cathey Falvo (ISDE USA)

Valerio Gennaro (ISDE Italy)

Peter Kalin (ISDE Switzerland)

IV SESSION: Chronic diseases: the case for urgent global action

14.30-18.30

Chairs: Leda Nemer (WHO); Fabrizio Bianchi (Pisa CNR; ISDE Italy)

Environmental changes and fetal origins of adult diseases, Ernesto Burgio (ISDE Italy)

The increase in chronic diseases: changes in the epidemiology of asthma and allergic disorders, Francesco Forastiere (Rome Local Health Agency; ISDE Italy)

Actions taken under Children's Environment and Health Action Plan for Europe - CEHAPE, Leda Nemer (WHO)

Certainties and uncertainties on Children's Environmental Health, Giorgio Tamburlini (ISDE Italy)

Round table - The increase of children's cancers: just alarmism?

17.30-18.30

Chair: Sergio Bernasconi (Parma University)

Participants:

Maurizio Aricò (AIEOP)

Gaetano Rivezzi (ISDE Italy)

Patrizia Gentilini (ISDE Italy)

Fonte:Associazione Medici per l'Ambiente - ISDE Italia, curata da Roberto Romizi e Silvia Caruso.

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