Healthy Skepticism Announcements
Seminar with Peter Mansfield: Against misleading information. Lisbon, Portugal, 9 October 2010
Against misleading information. In the struggle for better health!
Who is Peter Mansfield?
He’s a Family Physician, Research Fellow of the Discipline of Family Medicine at the University of Adelaide in Australia.
He was the founder and is the Director of the international organisation Healthy Skepticism Inc, which aims to promote health by reducing harm caused by misleading information from pharmaceutical industry. This organization includes many physicians, pharmacists and other health professionals.
What is the Healthy Skepticism Organisation?
What attitudes do professional and lay people have to promotion?
What impact does pharmaceutical promotion have on knowledge and behaviour of health professionals?
What effects on the health of users?
How does work the pharmaceutical industry?
It’s possible to have professional formation and medical research independent of the pharmaceutical industry?
In what sources of information should we trust?
Why do we need an independent drug bulletin in Portugal?
What interventions can be made to counter the promotion of misleading information?
Date: 9 October 2010
Time: 17-20h (coffee-break included)
Place:
South Region Portuguese Medical Association
Av. Almirante Gago Coutinho, 151
1749-084 Lisbon
Portugal
Audience: Physicians, pharmacists, other health professionals and respective College Students
Organizing committee:
Isabel Caixeiro
Manuela Santos
Edgar Ferreira
LuÃs Filipe Gomes
Tiago Villanueva
Promoting entities:
Healthy Skepticism
South Region Portuguese Medical Association
Registration:
Free. Please send full name, address, profession to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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