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The 13th international conference on Public Health among Greater Mekong Sub-Regional countries on "Enhancing transdisciplinary collaborations on Education and Research to tackle priority public health issues in the new Era" has following objectives:

  • To strengthen the relationship of Faculties of Public Health among the Southeast Asian countries and in the world;
  • To share research results in the field of Public Health as well as priority public health issues among greater Mekong Sub-Regional countries;
  • To search for feasible solutions to enhance international collaboration among Public Health Faculties in Mekong Sub-Region and a wider area of the Southeast Asian countries about training and research in Public Health.

An abstract should be in one paragraph with no more 350 words, describing the major aspects of the entire paper in a prescribed sequence that includes: 1) Introduction: The overall purpose of the study and the research problem(s) you investigated; 2) Objective(s): The outcomes that you aim to achieve by conducting research; 3) Method: The basic design of the study; 4) Results: Major findings or trends found as a result of your analysis; and, 5) Conclusions: a brief summary of your interpretations and conclusions.

Thua Thien Hue provincial Association of Public Health and Preventive Medicine in collaboration with the Faculty of Public Health and the Institute for Community Health Research of the University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Hue University, will host a scientific conference on Public Health.  (updating...)

Emerging infectious diseases are, more than ever, at the center of the world’s attention. Join a diverse group of colleagues from around the world as they present new knowledge and breakthroughs about how to discover, detect, understand, prevent and respond to outbreaks of emerging disease threats.

Rescheduled Date: October 3-5th, 2021

Venue: Kaohsiung Marriott Hotel (Kaohsiung, Taiwan)

Length: 2.5 days (+1 day Pre-Event Meeting)

Program: Interest Group Seminars, Summit Programming (Workshops, Oral/Poster Presentations, Symposiums, Alternative Sessions, Plenary Speakers), Welcome Reception, Banquet, Master Classes, Cultural Tours

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The Forum on "Early Healthy Child Development"

The Forum on "Early Healthy Child Development"

 

In the framework of the Hue Scientific Festival 2018 at Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy, the Institute for Community Health Research has carried a community health forum with the theme: "Healthy Early Child Development"on April 29, 2018.

The forum has attracted the interest of the community as the parents of youngsters suffering from developmental disorders, parents concerned about the healthy development of children in order to create a bridge with the unit providing services health and special education. The forum also presented teachers of special education programs, technicians rehabilitation therapy for children with intellectual handicaps and developmental disorders such as autism, developmental language disorders. The forum program included the reports of the experts, who were specialists in rehabilitation, neurological paediatrics, psychiatry; the NGO advocacy for people with disabilities in general, and children's developmental disorders and their households in particular. The most important function of the forum was the roundtable discussion which offered policy recommendations on social protection, health insurance, educational assistance for children with autism disorders and other intellectual disabilities as well as answering questions from the audience.

 

Picture 1: Overall picture of the Forum

 

Picture 2: Roundtable discussion

 

The forum also had an exhibition and information desks of many units for children with handicaps such as the Office of Genetic Counselling for Disabled Children (OGCDC) - Hue UMP, the Speech Therapy Unit of Department of Rehabilitation, the Language Intervention and Autism Unit of Hue Central Hospital, and many centers for specialized education and early intervention of children with disabilities in Thua Thien Hue province.

 

Picture 3: Exhibition and information desks

 

Parents and community members had been advised, answered questions about the development of mental and physical wellness of children, especially in their first 5-year period.  The experts made recommendations along the need of the collaboration between units providing diagnostic services, intervention, medical and special education for children with autistic children and other developmental disorders.  Parents of the kids with autism disorder proposed establishing an association, which will be a support group for families of children with disabilities and autistic disorders.

 

Picture 4: Answering questions from the audience

 

Picture 5: Memorial picture of the forum