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The First International
Primary Health Care Conference "Challenges
in Primary Health Care' was held in the Emirate
of Abu Dhabi, January 21-23, 2006.
Speakers
represented 24 countries as well as the
United Arab Emirates. Chairman of the Scientific
Committee was our esteemed Chief Editor,
Dr Abdulrazak Abyad, who was ably assisted
by the Advisory Committee, including Dr
Tawfik Khoja, Director General Executive
Board, Council of Health Ministers Cooperation
for GCC States, Emeritus Professor John
Beasley, University of Wisconsin, Dr Fawzi
Amin, Assistant Undersecretary for Planning
& Training, Ministry of Health, Kingdom
of Bahrain and Dr Ahmed Abdellatif, WHO
Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean.
A
three day program, included 75 invited speakers.
Topics included - Models of Primary Care,
around the world; school health; women's
health; medical education, quality in primary
health care, research in primary care; elderly
care, home care, mental health and the future
of family medicine.
Posters
featured type 2 diabetes in pregnant women,
nutrition in the elderly, teenage smoking,
streptococcal infection among children,
vitamin B12 deficiency, outpatient quality
of care and more.
It
was deemed an excellent conference by all
who attended and we congratulate the organizers
and H.E. Hamad Mohamed Al Hurr Al Suwaidi,
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the
General Authority for Health Services for
the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.
Lesley Pocock
Invited Speaker
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