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Sciences and Health Research are proud to be the hosts of
the ARC APFRN's 2007 Signature Conference to be held at the Caulfield
campus of Monash University, Australia.
In public health, the term "transition" flags changes in the distribution
of disease and changes in mortality and morbidity rates. The term is a
gesture towards epidemiological transitions, health transitions and nutrition
transitions - declining mortality rates from all causes, declining infant
mortality rates, shifts from infectious to non-communicable disease. But
we are also interested in the economic, social, political and cultural
factors that produce such transitions: shifts from agricultural to industrial
production, rural to urban settlements, subsistence to mono-cultivation
and modern economies, population movements on a temporary and permanent
basis, the remission of money within countries and throughout the region,
forced population movement due to civil war, disaster and trafficking.
Transitions have occurred also with respect to technology and values:
the introduction of new technologies, procedures and drugs, ideals regarding
body, diet and activity, the role of government in the provision of services.
The themes are as broad or as narrow as you would like them to be: a tool
to think about health, wellbeing, mobility in Asia and the Pacific.
Associated Workshops
Writing for Publication (workshop I & II)
Wednesday 27 June and Thursday 28 June
Bias-Free Health Planning (workshop III)
Wednesday 27 June 2007
Ethnographic Filmmaking Course (workshop IV, V & VI)
Thursday 28 – Friday 29 June 2007
Tuesday 3 – Friday 4 July 2007
Thursday 5 – Friday 6 July 2007
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