ABOUT SUBMISSION

The Deadline for abstract submission has expired!

Authors will be informed about the screening results by the Scientific Committee until February 28, 2009

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 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 poster presentations of the conference 2009, 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:
•••• Healthcare without walls – a vision for health promotion in health care?
•••• Integrated health promoting healthcare for different target groups
•••• How to organise health promoting cooperation between different healthcare providers
•••• Political, legal and economic preconditions for health promoting health care without walls

TOPICS OF HPH TASK FORCES and working groups:
•••• Health promoting psychiatric health care services
•••• Health promotion for children and adolescents in and by hospitals
•••• Migrant friendly and culturally competent hospitals
•••• HPH in the DRG system
•••• HPH core strategies and standards
•••• Smoke-Free Hospitals and Health Services

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, 2009 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 28, 2009.

	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 Health Promotion Research
Untere Donaustraße 47
1020 Vienna
Austria

Phone: +43 - 1 - 21 21 493 21
Fax: +43 - 1 - 21 21 493 50
hph.soc-gruwi@univie.ac.at

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