Abstracts IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE ONLY on HPH-related good and best practice, concepts and research may be submitted for

• oral presentations (presentations of 10-15 minutes)
• oral mini-presentations (3-5 minutes oral presentations)
• poster sessions

Submitters are invited to select their preferred type of presentation. Papers submitted for oral or oral mini presentation, if not suitable for the chosen categories, may be considered for oral mini or poster presentation if the quality allows.

The Scientific Committee would especially like to invite papers with a focus on one of the main conference topics or on topics related to HPH task forces:

Main conference topics:

• HP and non-communicable diseases
• Social and economic determinants of health
• Healthcare and climate change
• Evidence for HPH effectiveness
• Evaluation of HPH
• Health systems support for HPH
• Financing HPH
• Organizational capacities for HPH
• HP and Mother and child health

Topics of HPH task forces and working groups:

• HP for children and adolescents in and by health services
• HP for ageing populations
• Migrant-friendly and culturally competent health services
• HP in psychiatric care
• Alcohol prevention
• Tobacco free health services
• Pain-free health services
• Mental HP
• Health literacy in healthcare
• Networking in health promotion
• Workplace health promotion in healthcare
• User involvement in healthcarr
• HPH & Environment
• HPH standards and quality management
• Physical Activity
• application of information technology in HPH
  
  

Screening of conference papers

All papers received until January 10, 2012 will be screened by the Scientific Committee. Criteria for the selection of contributions will be:

• their originality
• their explicit link to conference topics
• their relation to principles of health promotion (described as being empowering, participatory, holistic, intersectoral, equitable, sustainable, and multi-strategy)
• the availability of evaluation data / evidence
• the explicit relation to HPH strategies and standards for HP in hospitals.

In order to facilitate travel planning for conference delegates, papers will be entered into the screening process directly after submission, and submitters will be informed about the screening results as early as possible (usually within 4 weeks after submission).

All submitters will be informed about the decision of the Scientific Committee latest by January 31, 2012.