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Opening Address
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OPENING ADDRESS L. ROSIVAL, chairman Ladies and Gentlemen,
On behalf of the Scientific Committee on Pesticides of the International Association on Occupational Health I have the honour to welcome you in Buenos Aires at our VIth
International Workshop entitled: "Education and safe handling
in pesticide application". I would like to thank very cordially our Argentine hosts who made it possible for us to have this meeting in Argentina, especially the "Associacion Medica Argentina", represented here by Dr. A. Maccagno, secretary of this association. It is a great honour for us to have the opportunity to hold our sessions in the rooms of this elegant seat of the medical profession in Argentina. It is a great honour to me to welcome here: Dr. L. Lennon, Rector of the University of Buenos Aires Dr. H.R. Castells, President of the Argentine Academy of Medicine Dr. J.G. Montanez, Dean of the School of Medicine of the University del Salvador Dr. A. Maccagno, Secretary of the Argentine Medical Association. It gives me great pleasure that in the 10th year of the existence of the Scientific Committee (a year of a mini-jubilee) this Workshop will take place in Argentina, being it the first time that a Workshop will be held outside Europe. This is the result of the enthusiasm, interest and excellent organisational work carried out by the members of the Workshop directorate, chaired by Prof. E. Astolfi, in particular by Prof. J. Higa de Landoni and Mrs. Leny de Smit, head of the Workshop secretariat. I am very glad that Dr. J.F. Copplestone, Chief of Pesticide Development and Safe Use Unit of the Vector Biology and Control Division in WHO, accepted the invitation for this Workshop, which shows the great interest of WHO in the work of this Scientific Committee. I am very pleased to welcome Dr. R. Murray, Secretary of the Permanent Commission of the International Association on Occupational Health, who supports with great enthusiasm the activities of our Scientific Committee. It is also a honour for me to welcome the representatives of the Pan American Center for Human Ecology and Health, which is a regional technical Center of the Pan American Health Organization and the World Health Organization. The
main objective of the Center is to cooperate with member countries of the Pan American Health Organization to improve the health status of human populations and to prevent or minimize adverse effects on human health which may result from the environmental changes and the possible contamination that accompany the economic development and industrialization. In this respect it is our mutual intention to try to attain by the year 2000 the objective of health for everybody. Since 1971 the Scientific Committee on Pesticides has been involved in many activities, especially in organizing five international Workshops. Reports of these activities have been published in International Journals. The recommendations from the Workshops were accepted in the relevant scientific circles allover the world. The Proceedings of our Vth Workshop in The Hague in 1979 have been succesfully edited by Dr. W.F. Tordoir and Mrs. E.A.H. van Heemstra-Lequin and were published by Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company in 1980. This book is of interest to those who like to broaden their knowledge in the field of pesticides. In future we would like to proceed with publishing such Proceedings and other important results of our activities. I am convinced that the present Workshop will provide valuable data and opinions on the problems of the protection of individuals who work with pesticides: manufacturers, formulators, packers, distributors, storage personnel, mixers, loaders and applicators. For the first time in the Workshop's history the aspects of education are included in the program. The field of health education is no longer simply a discipline among many but an attitude of mind, a new orientation of thoughts and action. The three main objectives are: to inform, to motivate and to set inbo action. According to the tradition of the activities of the Scientific Committee we have prepared sessions on pesticides for the International Congresses on Occupational Health held in Brighton and Dubrovnik. I hope that we will be able to prepare also a session on pesticides for the XXth International Congress on Occupational Health, which will be held in Cairo this year and which will be the follow-up of our Workshop. In closing my opening address I would like to express the wish that our Works' will be a success and that you will have a pleasant stay in the wonderful city of Buenos Aires and in the city with the poetic name of San Carlos de Bariloche a little dot on the globe, a place so far from Europe and other continents but so near for our communication and mutual understanding.
OPENING ADDRESS L. ROSIVAL, chairman Ladies and Gentlemen,
On behalf of the Scientific Committee on Pesticides of the International Association on Occupational Health I have the honour to welcome you in Buenos Aires at our VIth
International Workshop entitled: "Education and safe handling
in pesticide application". I would like to thank very cordially our Argentine hosts who made it possible for us to have this meeting in Argentina, especially the "Associacion Medica Argentina", represented here by Dr. A. Maccagno, secretary of this association. It is a great honour for us to have the opportunity to hold our sessions in the rooms of this elegant seat of the medical profession in Argentina. It is a great honour to me to welcome here: Dr. L. Lennon, Rector of the University of Buenos Aires Dr. H.R. Castells, President of the Argentine Academy of Medicine Dr. J.G. Montanez, Dean of the School of Medicine of the University del Salvador Dr. A. Maccagno, Secretary of the Argentine Medical Association. It gives me great pleasure that in the 10th year of the existence of the Scientific Committee (a year of a mini-jubilee) this Workshop will take place in Argentina, being it the first time that a Workshop will be held outside Europe. This is the result of the enthusiasm, interest and excellent organisational work carried out by the members of the Workshop directorate, chaired by Prof. E. Astolfi, in particular by Prof. J. Higa de Landoni and Mrs. Leny de Smit, head of the Workshop secretariat. I am very glad that Dr. J.F. Copplestone, Chief of Pesticide Development and Safe Use Unit of the Vector Biology and Control Division in WHO, accepted the invitation for this Workshop, which shows the great interest of WHO in the work of this Scientific Committee. I am very pleased to welcome Dr. R. Murray, Secretary of the Permanent Commission of the International Association on Occupational Health, who supports with great enthusiasm the activities of our Scientific Committee. It is also a honour for me to welcome the representatives of the Pan American Center for Human Ecology and Health, which is a regional technical Center of the Pan American Health Organization and the World Health Organization. The
main objective of the Center is to cooperate with member countries of the Pan American Health Organization to improve the health status of human populations and to prevent or minimize adverse effects on human health which may result from the environmental changes and the possible contamination that accompany the economic development and industrialization. In this respect it is our mutual intention to try to attain by the year 2000 the objective of health for everybody. Since 1971 the Scientific Committee on Pesticides has been involved in many activities, especially in organizing five international Workshops. Reports of these activities have been published in International Journals. The recommendations from the Workshops were accepted in the relevant scientific circles allover the world. The Proceedings of our Vth Workshop in The Hague in 1979 have been succesfully edited by Dr. W.F. Tordoir and Mrs. E.A.H. van Heemstra-Lequin and were published by Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company in 1980. This book is of interest to those who like to broaden their knowledge in the field of pesticides. In future we would like to proceed with publishing such Proceedings and other important results of our activities. I am convinced that the present Workshop will provide valuable data and opinions on the problems of the protection of individuals who work with pesticides: manufacturers, formulators, packers, distributors, storage personnel, mixers, loaders and applicators. For the first time in the Workshop's history the aspects of education are included in the program. The field of health education is no longer simply a discipline among many but an attitude of mind, a new orientation of thoughts and action. The three main objectives are: to inform, to motivate and to set inbo action. According to the tradition of the activities of the Scientific Committee we have prepared sessions on pesticides for the International Congresses on Occupational Health held in Brighton and Dubrovnik. I hope that we will be able to prepare also a session on pesticides for the XXth International Congress on Occupational Health, which will be held in Cairo this year and which will be the follow-up of our Workshop. In closing my opening address I would like to express the wish that our Works' will be a success and that you will have a pleasant stay in the wonderful city of Buenos Aires and in the city with the poetic name of San Carlos de Bariloche a little dot on the globe, a place so far from Europe and other continents but so near for our communication and mutual understanding.