ABOUT SUBMISSION

THE DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION HAS EXPIRED!

Abstract submitters will be informed until February 29 about the results of the screening by the Scientific Committee.

ORAL PRESENTATIONS: As usual, paper sessions will be composed from papers received and accepted by the Scientific Committee. There will be no more than 5 presentations per session, and the standard length of presentation will be 15' time for presentation, and a few minutes time for discussion. There will be space for a maximum of 90 oral presentations.

GUIDED ELECTRONIC POSTER PRESENTATIONS: For the first time, the format of “electronic poster presentations” will be introduced at an HPH conference. Participants with an accepted poster presentationwill not need to bring a printed poster: A pre-delivered, electronic PDF file will be sufficient. There will be space for max. 140 electronic poster presentations. These will be grouped into thematic sessions of maximum 10 presentations, with a presentation time of 3 minutes each. The presence of the author (or a co-author) is therefore required.

Please note that accepted papers can be included in the final conference program only if presenters are registered for the conference.
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	CALL FOR PAPERS

Abstracts for parallel paper sessions and electronic poster sessions IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE ONLY may be submitted on HPH-related good and best practice, concepts and research. For the parallel paper sessions and electronic poster presentations of the conference 2008, 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:
•••• Health promotion by re-orienting core business or by expanding into new services - or by both? •••• Improving patient orientation: safety, clinical evidence, cultural appropriateness •••• Improving staff orientation: The challenge of an ageing workforce •••• Improving community and public health orientation: corporate social responsibility and sustainability

TOPICS OF HPH TASK FORCES:
•••• Health promoting psychiatric health care services
•••• Health promotion for children and adolescents in and by hospitals
•••• Migrant friendly and culturally competent hospitals
•••• HPH strategic and quality management
•••• Quality-based purchasing
•••• HPH core strategies and standards

ADDITIONAL TOPICS:
•••• Pain-free hospitals
•••• Smoke-free hospitals
•••• Mental health promotion in Health Promoting Hospitals
•••• HPH networking: What can we learn from each others? (strategies, organisation, management, working methods, results, financing)

All papers received until January 31, 2008 will be screened by the Scientific Committee. Criteria for the selection of contributions are their explicit link to conference topics, to principles of health promotion (described as being empowering, participatory, holistic, intersectoral, equitable, sustainable, and multi-strategy), to the availability of evaluation data / evidence, and to the explicit relation to HPH strategies >> and standards for HP in hospitals >>.

You will be informed about the decision of the Scientific Committee until February 29 , 2008.

	CONTACT SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

If you have any questions about abstract submission, please do not hesitate to contact us at the following address:

Ms. Christina Dietscher (Contact, Scientific Committee)
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the Sociology of Health and Medicine
Rooseveltplatz 2/4
A-1090 Vienna
Austria

Phone: +43 - 1 - 4277 - 48295
Fax: +43 - 1 - 4277 - 48290
hph.soc-gruwi@univie.ac.at

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