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Peeke School of Christian Mission
Health, Agriculture, Culture, and Community
October 13 - 17, 2008
will
be held at ECHO, 17391 Durrance Rd., N. Fort Myers, FL 33917)
Community
health means empowering people and communities to take the initiative to
improve their own health and living conditions. This requires knowledge about
the people - their beliefs, culture, and ways of communication so that we
can transmit new ideas to them in appropriate ways. This includes concepts
of adequate food and good nutrition that are essential for health.
Yet people cannot have adequate food without effective agricultural methods.
Because of this, the Global Health Training Program at King College has joined with ECHO in
N. Ft. Myers Florida to offer a five-day workshop on community health and
agriculture.
Subjects
that will be covered are:
- The rationale, principles,
and practice of community health as the empowerment of people
- How to evaluate the beliefs
and practices of people of another culture
- How to communicate scientific
ideas to people of non-scientific cultures
- Methods of adult non-formal
education
- An overview of primary
health care and its major interventions
- How to grow nutritious
legumes and trees
- Approved for 25 hours
of category 1 CME Credit
For
further information about this workshop, visit
the ECHO website at www.echonet.org or
contact Stan Doerr at sdoerr@echonet.org or
at (239) 543-3246.
Facilitators:
Dan Fountain, M.D., MPH,
Former medical missionary in the DRCongo
Martin
Price, Ph.D.,
Director of ECHO
Stan Doerr, M.Sc.,
Deputy Director of ECHO
HIV/AIDS, Nutrition and Agrictulture
December 1 - 5, 2008
(Will
be held at ECHO, 17391 Durrance Rd., N. Fort Myers, FL 33917.)
A
serious problem of persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) is that of adequate
nutrition. Poor nutrition aggravates HIV infection and makes the anti-retro-viral
treatment of the infection more difficult.
This
workshop will focus on the nutritional needs of PLWHAs, appropriate foods
for them in various contexts, and simple methods of agriculture to grow the
appropriate foods. The workshop is for persons involved in community development,
agriculture, and health who are engaged in combating the HIV epidemic worldwide.
For
further information about this workshop and registration, visit the ECHO
website at www.echonet.org or
contact Stan Doerr at sdoerr@echonet.org or
at (239) 543-3246.
Facilitators:
Martin Price, PhD
Director of ECHO
Stan
Doerr, M.Sc
Deputy Director of ECHO
Grace Ju, PhD in plant physiology
Dan Fountain, M.D., MPH
Former Medical Missionary to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Continuing Education Credits
The
Christian Medical & Dental Associations is the primary sponsor of the continuing
education component of these workshops.
The
Christian Medical Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for
Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for
physicians.
The
Christian Medical Association designates these educational activities for
category 1 credit towards the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician
should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the
educational activity.
The
Christian Dental Association is designated as an Approved PACE Program Provider
by the Academy of General Dentistry. The formal
continuing education programs of this program provider are accepted by AGD for
fellowship, mastership, and membership maintenance credit. Approval does not
imply acceptance by a state or provincial board of dentistry. The current term
of approval extends from 1/03/02 to 12/31/06.
For more information about
these workshops, contact:
Michele Fagan
Peeke School of Christian
Mission
Center for Global Health
King College
1350 King College Rd.
Bristol, TN 37620 USA
Phone: 423-652-4157
FAX: 423-652-4788
Email:
globalhealth@king.edu
Additional resources:
Christian Health & Wholeness Network
http://www.healthwholeness.net
Information about the annual Global Missions Health Conference
http://www.medicalmissions.com.
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