IUHPE Regional Conferences

12TH IUHPE EUROPEAN CONFERENCE, 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SALUTOGENESIS - LoDZ, POLAND

Between June 17-20, 2024, the city of Lodz in Poland will hold two important events: the 12th IUHPE European Conference on Health Promotion and the 7th International Conference on Salutogenesis.

 

The 12th IUHPE European Conference on Health Promotion will be held on June 17-18, 2024, with the theme “Health Promotion: Cultivating Change Through the Lifespan”. It will be an event co-organized by the Medical University of Lodz in collaboration with the Foundation for the Medical University of Lodz. Our goal is to assess the existing knowledge and practices in health promotion, emphasizing upcoming challenges, and contributing to setting the agenda for advancing the field. It will be a unique opportunity to disseminate health promotion research with an emphasis on facilitating health transformations at every stage of life.

 

Subsequently, between June 19-20, the 7th International Conference on Salutogenesis will focus on the theme “Everyday life and crises as opportunities for salutogenic transformation”. It will be co-organized by the Society for Theory and Research on Salutogenesis (STARS). Its goals include promoting and spreading the theory and research of Salutogenesis, providing a platform for discussing and exchanging innovative approaches in salutogenic research, policy, and practice.

 

The call for abstracts is open until November 30.

 

 

 

 

 

11TH IUHPE EUROPEAN CONFERENCE, 6th International Conference on Salutogenesis & IUHPE 70th Anniversary

11th IUHPE European Conference on Health promotion “Health Promotion: Transformative action in a changing Europe,” 15-16 June 2021

6th International Conference on Salutogenesis “Advancing Salutogenesis towards thriving Societies,” 17-18 June 2021

IUHPE 70th Anniversary Special Event

 

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With the holding of two key events, 2021 will be an important year for health promotion in Europe. Between 15 and 18 June 2021, Girona (Spain) will host both the 11th IUHPE European Conference on Health Promotion and the 6th International Conference on Salutogenesis. Given the situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference organisers are planning the events to occur only online.

The theme of the 11th IUHPE European Conference on Health Promotion, taking place from 15 to 16 June 2021, is “Health Promotion: Transformative action in a changing Europe”. The event aims to put the spotlight on the health promotion work carried out by various institutions and organisations across Europe, and to promote networking and the exchange of ideas.

With the theme of “Advancing Salutogenesis towards thriving societies”, the 6th International Conference on Salutogenesis, taking place from 17 to 18 June 2021, aims to advance theory and research on Salutogenesis, and to share and discuss innovative approaches in the four topic areas.

11th IUHPE European Conference

2021 will also be an important year for IUHPE, which will be celebrating its 70th anniversary. This event celebrates IUHPE’s leadership role in shaping global health promotion over the last 70 years and progressing the development of health promotion research, practice and policy in collaboration with our global network of members and partners. The anniversary will be celebrated at a special event scheduled for 16 June, coinciding with the two conferences. 

 

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10th IUHPE European Conference and 4th International Forum for Health Promotion Research

10th European Conference

10th IUHPE European Conference and 4th International Forum for Health Promotion Research took place during 
24-26 September 2018, in Trondheim, Norway

Six years after the last European Conference in Tallinn, more than 200 health promoters gathered to share ideas, experiences and challenges. The conference privileged participative sessions and featured symposiums, workshops, communications and an “Euro Café” session.

IUHPE Global Working Groups (GWG) were heavily involved in this conference, particularly during the second day which was dedicated to discussing how the Health Literacy, Salutogenesis and Healthy Settings approaches contribute to health promotion, including how to tackle NCDs. You can access the presentations here.

The IUHPE European Conference and International Forum was also a health-promoting conference: pauses included music and dance to relax the spirit between highly engaged periods. (Re)connecting also promotes health and IUHPE conferences are the perfect opportunity to finally meet in person or see again kindred colleagues. The IUHPE GWG on Health Literacy even seized the opportunity for a group photo.

If sadly you were not able to attend this conference, you can access some of the keynote presentations: Young People's Reflections on Health Promotion, Ellen Ersfjord; Health Promotion, Version 2.0 - Key Principles and Challenges, Bjarne Bruun Jensen; and Sustainable Implementation of Public Health Initiatives, Monica Lillefjell. Abstracts are still available here.

            

There is also a digital trace of this event. Read all the messages and photos shared under the #HealthPromotionEurope Twitter hashtag to have a sense of what happened in Trondheim.

“The entire conference was very well organised, extremely interesting and engaging. Hence, I took a lot of interesting news, contacts and inspirations back home which I will share with my colleagues at the Austrian Health Promotion Fund,” Gert Lang, Austrian Health Promotion Fund, IUHPE Institutional Member

Finally, this event would not have been possible without the dedication of a hardworking team:

• the conference Co-chairs, Bjarne Bruun Jensen, IUHPE Regional Vice President for the European region, Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, and Geir Arild Espnes, Director of NTNU Center for Health Promotion, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, NTNU;

• the Chair of the Local Committee, Siw Tone Innstrand, NTNU Center for Health Promotion Research, and all members of the committee;
• the Chair of the Scientific Committee, Bengt Lindström, IUHPE Board Member, NTNU Center for Health Promotion Research, and all members of the committee.

IUHPE thanks this wonderful group of people and congratulates them on such a successful enterprise!

 

The conference may have ended, but this is just one among many health promotion activities to come in the European region. The European Forum for Health Promotion Research and the UNESCO Chair on Global Health and Education are two very promising initiatives that will continue to count on IUHPE’s participation and support.

  


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6ª Conferencia Regional Latinoamericana de Promoción de la Salud y Educación para la Salud de la UIPES

10th European Conference

Esta conferencia se celebró entre el 8 y 10 de octubre de 2018, en la Universidad de Franca, Brasil, simultáneamente con el 3er CBIPS – Congreso Brasileño Interdisciplinar de Promoción de la Salud y el 3er Seminario de Promoción de la Salud del interior paulista.

Durante tres días, 600 participantes asistieron a este evento conjunto y se presentaron 400 trabajos. La asistencia fue muy diversa: hubo participantes de todo Brasil, y de Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, México, Chile, Cuba y Puerto Rico.


Hubo más de 70 ponentes de Brasil, pero también de EE.UU., Canadá y de toda América Latina. Además de la IUIPES y UIPES/ORLA, asistieron representantes del Ministerio de Salud de Brasil, el Secretario de Salud del Estado de Sao Paulo, políticos municipales, OPS/WDC y OPS –Brasil.

El programa científico de este evento conjunto fue muy rico y estimulante. Los presentadores y los ponentes enfocaron el tema principal de la conferencia: “Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible y Promoción de la Salud en el siglo XXI: conexiones en expansióndesde múltiples perspectivas y en múltiples formatos: mini-cursos, talleres, mesas redondas, paneles, presentaciones orales, posters y ponencias principales.

El debate en torno a este tema continuará: los organizadores de la conferencia están redactando actualmente un borrador de Declaración de Franca centrado en los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible y en cómo éstas abren vías a las estrategias y acciones de promoción de la salud que promueven la equidad en salud. La UIPES apoyará las iniciativas de defensa y divulgación de las recomendaciones propuestas en este documento y le dará amplia difusión.

      

El evento conjunto de Franca nos hizo pensar y nos dio una cálida acogida. La VIª Conferencia Regional latinoamericana fortalece la contribución de la UIPES/ORLA al trabajo regional en promoción de la salud y nos mantiene como un gran propulsor de la equidad enmarcada en el valor social de la Salud para Todos. ¡Sin duda, fue una digna continuación de la Conferencia Mundial de Curitiba! Lo hizo posible un potente equipo internacional:

• La Presidenta brasileña y Presidenta del Comité Científico Nacional, Cléria Maria Lobo Bittar, Universidad de Franca (UNIFRAN), y todos los miembros de este comité;
• El Presidente/Director del Comité Organizador, Carlos Henrique Gomes Martins, Coordinador del Programa de Promoción de la Salud (magíster/doctorado) (UNIFRAN), y todos los miembros de este comité;
• Los miembros del Comité Científico Internacional, Lourdes E. Soto de Laurido (Puerto Rico) –Vicepresidente Regional de la UIPES para América Latina (UIPES/ORLA), Hiram V. Arroyo (Puerto Rico) – el Director Regional de UIPES/ORLA, Blanca Patricia Mantilla (Colombia) – la Representante de la Subregión Andina, UIPES/ORLA, Katia de Pinho Campos (Brasil) – Organización Panamericana de Salud (OPS-BRASIL), Marcia Faria Wesphal (Brasil) – Ex Vicepresidente de UIPES/ORLA, Marco Akerman (Brasil) – Ex Vicepresidente de UIPES/ORLA, Raúl Mercer (Argentina) – Representante de la Subregión del Cono Sur, UIPES/ORLA, Simone Tetu Moysés (Brasil) – Organizador Local de la 22a Conferencia Mundial de Promoción de la Salud de la UIPES y Vera Lúcia Góes (Brasil) – Ex representante de la Subregión de Brasil, UIPES/ORLA.

La UIPES reconoce la importante contribución de este evento para el avance de la investigación y la práctica en promoción de la salud en América Latina y espera con interés, como resultado de este encuentro, la formación de nuevos partenariados y el fortalecimiento de los ya existentes.