T2B2

Public Health and the Uninsured

Free satellite broadcast, December 15, 2005 (9-10 am ET)

Speaker:
Robert Fullilove, EdD
Assoc. Dean, Community and Minority Affairs, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Nearly 50 million Americans are without health insurance. Dr. Fullilove will focus on the relationship between living without health insurance and the burden placed on public health systems to meet the needs of the uninsured. A history of health care and health insurance will be presented to help viewers understand "how we got into this mess in the first place."

This Educational Activity is presented by the School of Public Health Continuing Education, which has been approved as a provider of continuing education by the New York State Nurses Association’s Council on Continuing Education, which is accredited by the American Nurses’ Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. It has been approved for 1.0 contact hours and has been assigned approval code 5RLL8T-PRV-04-004.

The School of Public Health, University at Albany, SUNY, is accredited by the Medical Society of the State of New York to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians. The School designates this educational activity for 1.0 Category One credits 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.

This activity is sponsored by the School of Public Health, University at Albany, SUNY, a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for the CHES to receive 1.0 Category 1 CECH in health education.