Minnesota Public Health Association.

Topic: What are the significant implications as the baby boom generation become elderly? What kind of impact will it have? What are the potential problems?

Topic: Identify, prevent, and respond to any threats to the health of our society and discuss biological, chemical, and radiological emergencies.

Topic: Bloomington Division of Public Health, public health issues facing people living in suburban areas and the public health resources available to them.

Topic: Examine the collaborative links between faith, religion, spirituality, and health

Topic: Examine the collaborative links between faith, religion, spirituality, and health

Featured presentation from the 1999 Park Nicollet Health Conference. Topic: The World Bank is the world's largest source of development assistant for poor people and poor countries. It provides over $30 billion in loans each year to client countries. Jan Piercy discusses world health goals.

Topic: Benefits of breast feeding; increasing breast feeding; support network for breast feeding.

Topic: Early, periodic screen, diagnosis, and treatment.

Topic: Disease prevention and health promotion.

A look at the emotional health of college students, at events and situations that cause them stress, and how to cope.

Topic: A look at an innovative project that is geared to help parents bridge the communication gap with their children and help reduce alcohol, tobacco, and other drug abuse.

Topic: Community Lifeline Project, an innovative project that is attempting to reduce the inappropriate use of the emergency room for routine health care, increase the number of uninsured people enrolled in health insurance programs, and improve access to regular primary care providers.

Topic: What is complementary and alternative medicine? How is it being integrated into mainstream medicine and how is it being evaluated?

Topic: Lack of heath insurance coverage among children in Minnesota

Topic: Discussion on the lack of health insurance coverage among children in Minnesota.

The population of the U.S. is changing rapidly. Dramatic changes are also happening here in Minnesota. In the last 15 years, the populations of color in Minneapolis have more than doubled. How can we become more culturally competent?

Topic: Diversity and the health care system.