ABOUT SUBMISSION

The deadline for abstract submission has expired!
Information on the acceptance of your paper will be sent out until February 15, 2007

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

For paper and poster sessions, the Scientific Committee would like to primarily invite abstracts on models, projects, interventions or studies on the main conference issues. Papers on a number of selected additional issues are also welcome:

Main conference issues
•••• Making the hospital a more effective agent for individual and public health by implementing the comprehensive vision of HPH
•••• Transforming the hospital organisation - integrating wider HP strategic and quality criteria into hospital governance
•••• Empowering patients for healthy lives by enhancing the supportiveness of health systems
•••• Contributions of the hospital to developing health promoting communities

Topics of HPH task forces
•••• Health promoting psychiatric health care services
•••• Health promotion for children and adolescents in hospitals
•••• Migrant friendly and culturally competent hospitals
•••• HPH strategic and quality management
•••• Quality-based purchasing

Additional topics
•••• Pain-free hospitals
•••• Smoke-free hospitals
•••• Mental health promotion in Health Promoting Hospitals
•••• Workplace health promotion in the hospital
•••• HPH and cost-effectiveness
•••• Health outcome and health impact assessment in HPH
•••• HPH and gender issues
•••• HPH as a health policy issue
•••• HPH networking: What can we learn from each others? (strategies, organisation, management, working methods, results, financing)

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>>.

	CONTACT

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)
WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Promotion in Hospitals and Health care at
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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