[ensu] Fwd: Thu Jan 30 IES/GOEHU Environment & Health seminar
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- Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 12:41:16 -0500 (EST)
--- Mona El-Haddad <m.elhaddad@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >
From: "Mona El-Haddad" <m.elhaddad@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <m.elhaddad@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Thu Jan 30 IES/GOEHU Environment & Health
> seminar
> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 09:56:12 -0500
>
>
> Institute for Environmental Studies
> and Gage Occupational & Environmental Health Unit
> ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH SEMINAR SERIES
> **************************************************
>
> THURS JANUARY 30, 4:00 p.m.
> Room 113, Koffler Inst. for Pharmacy Management, 569
> Spadina Ave.
>
> SARAH WAKEFIELD, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of
> Public Health Sciences,
> University of Toronto
>
> "INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY RESPONSES TO ENVIRONMENTAL
> HEALTH THREATS:
> COPING IN A RISK SOCIETY"
> (abstract and upcoming seminars below)
>
> For a map, updates, and abstracts,
> please see
> http://www.utoronto.ca/env/seminars/e&h-spring.html
>
> No registration required; all are welcome.
> **************************************************
> ABSTRACT:
>
> The risk society described by Ulrich Beck and
> Anthony Giddens portrays
> contemporary Western society as increasingly aware
> of, and concerned
> about, technological hazards. In particular, the
> health consequences of
> human-induced environmental change are causing
> anxiety for individuals
> and communities. Using the risk society framework
> as a starting point
> for discussion, this seminar will identify
> mechanisms used by
> individuals to cope with perceived environmental
> risks. The results of
> a series of quantitative and qualitative studies are
> presented in order
> to illustrate the range of potential coping
> strategies used in response
> to perceived environmental risks, and to identify
> the potential impacts
> of these strategies on individual and community
> well-being.
>
>
> UPCOMING SEMINARS
>
> THU FEBRUARY 6 2003
> LORAINE MARRETT, Scientist, Division of Preventive
> Oncology, Cancer Care
> Ontario
> Cheryl Rosen, Head of Dermatology, Toronto Western
> Hospital, University
> Health Network
> "Ultraviolet radiation and skin cancer: mechanisms,
> epidemiology and
> prevention"
>
> THU FEBRUARY 13 2003
> PAM KAUFMAN, Lecturer, Department of Public Health
> Sciences, University
> of Toronto, and
> Research Associate, Ontario Tobacco Research Unit,
> University of Toronto
>
> "Exploring physical and social factors that
> influence smoking behaviour
> in outdoor public places"
>
> THU FEBRUARY 27 2003
> GAIL EYSSEN, Professor, Department of Public Health
> Sciences, University
> of Toronto
> "Environmental sensitivity: an approach to research
> from environment to
> physiologic mechanisms"
>
> THU MARCH 6 2003
> MARK RAIZENNE, Acting Chief of the Air Health
> Effects Division, Safe
> Environments Programme at Health Canada
> Title to be determined.
>
> THU MARCH 27 2003
> PAT HARPER, Scientist, Research Institute, The
> Hospital for Sick
> Children, Toronto; Assistant Professor, Department
> of Pharmacology and
> Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, University of
> Toronto
> Title to be determined.
>
>
> For more information, please contact:
> Mona El-Haddad, 416-978-6526, m.elhaddad@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
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