“Health and Development: The Absence of Disease is Not Enough”

Date:

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Time:

8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. (USA - EDT)

Description:

PAHO has started to transform a life course vision into an approach that contributes to a paradigm shift in the Building Health Throughout the Life Course. “Health and Development: The Absence of Disease is Not Enough” is the first of a webinar series to promote the life course approach.

Objective(s) of the meeting:

To help decision-makers and public health professionals to understand the life course meaning and concepts, which is essential to comprehend how health develops and changes throughout the life course.
To describe how the life course model allows us to address health disparities by generating mechanisms to improve health and well-being by promoting the vision of health as the product of a series of experiences that contribute to or detract from health in the near and long term.

Brief synthesis of the topics:

Program

8:30 a.m. - Welcoming remarks
- Dr. Enrique Vega
8:35 a.m. - The life course approach for health development: Concepts and foundations
- Dr. Cristopher Forrest
8:50 a.m. - How the life course approach is translated into public health practice: First part of the life course (implications)
- Presentation - A future for the world's children: A WHO-UNICEF-Lancet commission
- Dr. Raul Mercer
- Presentation - Re-designing children and adolescent's health programs
- Dr. Wilson Milton Were
9:10 a.m. - Panel discussion: The implementation of the life course approach
- Moderated by Dr. Pablo Durán
- Panelists include:
- Dr. Natalie Charpaak
- Dr. Nicole Garay Unjidos
- Dr. Susan Sawyer
10:00 a.m. - Conclusions and closing remarks
- Dr. Pablo Durán