13th European Conference on Public Health

10Nov2005 - 12Nov2005

Graz, Austria

In 2005, the annual EUPHA conference will be held from 10 to 12 November in Graz, Austria. The main theme of the Promoting the Public?s Health: reorienting health policies, linking health promotion and health care. The conference is organised by:

Austrian Public Health Association
Slovenian Preventive Medicine Society
Croatian Public Health Association

Public health has entered a phase of rapid transition towards a wider interdisciplinary and intersectorial perspective. Taking this wider perspective, the new public health is aiming to tackle three major challenges:

to strengthen health promotion and disease prevention
to develop sustainable systems of quality management
to link, coordinate and integrate health policies and health sectors.

The specific aims of the conference are:

to identify and discuss current developments and challenges in the fields of health promotion and prevention as well as chronic and infectious disease care;
to explore and discuss potential strategies and means for better communication, linking and coordination of health care and health promotion efforts and settings;
to explore and discuss potential strategies and means to develop sustainable systems of quality management;
to explore and discuss health reforms, potential strategies and means to link, coordinate and integrate health policies, health sectors and health services;
to outline a common strategy for an European research and training programme in public health.

to register, click on the link below

Webpage: www.eupha.org/html/menu3_2.html 