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

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

Main conference topics:

• Theoretical papers on health gain orientation / salutogenesis in healthcare
• Health gain orientation in clinical services – good practice
• Health gain orientation in support services – good practice
• Health gain orientation and continuity of care
• Health gain orientation in cooperation with other settings
• Health gain orientation and sustainable development

 

Topics of HPH task forces and working groups:

• Health gain orientation in psychiatric services
• Improving the health gain of children and adolescents in and by hospitals and health services
• Improving health gain by strengthening migrant-friendliness and cultural competence
• Improving health gain by tackling smoking
• Improving health gain by tackling alcohol
• Improving health gain by strengthening environment-friendliness and sustainability of health services
• Improving health gain by pain management
• Health gain and health promotion for staff / healthy workplace
• Linking HPH core strategies and standards to health gain

 

Additional topics:

• HPH networking and lobbying
• Solidarity and equity in health
• Communication as a tool to improve health gain
• Children’s rights in healthcare

 

Screening of conference papers

All papers received until January 31, 2011 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.

Submitters will be informed about the decision of the Scientific Committee until March 15, 2011.