4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON CHILDREN'S HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Location: Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Second announcement 16th of February 2007
Organised by the International Network on Children’s Health, Environment and Safety (INCHES), by the University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology (UMIT) located at the University UMIT, Institute of Public Health, Hall in Tirol, Austria and by the Institute of Environmental Health (ZPH) located at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria.
This conference - the fourth after Amsterdam (1998), Washington (2001) and London (2004) - is initiated by the International Network on Children’s Health, Environment and Safety (INCHES) in collaboration with the University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology - Dept. of Public Health, Medical Decision Making and Health Technology Assessment, and the Medical University of Vienna, Institute of Environmental Health. This conference offers a world-wide platform dealing with health problems of children caused by important environmental influences.
The objectives of this conference are:
to provide an international forum for the latest research findings in paediatric environmental health;
to provide insight in the activities in the field of science and policy interface;
to define the relationship between environmental contaminants and children's health in the world;
to identify opportunities to minimise childhood exposure to environmental contaminants;
to build a multi-sectoral platform of knowledge at an international level;
to develop a greater awareness among health professionals about children's health and the environment;
to initiate policy review and future directions in research in the field of children's environmental health;
to renew old friendships and initiate new ones
the conference should target the global one, risks from environmental hazards for children from all over the world.
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Conference Secretariat ICCHE ´07
c/o Julia Hellmann
Institute of Public Health, Medical Decision Making and Health Technology Assessment
UMIT – University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology
Eduard Wallnoefer – Zentrum I
A-6060 Hall in Tirol
Austria, Europe
Phone: +43 - 50 – 8648 – 3878
Fax: +43 - 50 – 8648 – 67 - 3878
E-mail address: inches@umit.at