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LODZ PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME 14 July 2009

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Preliminary programme: ORAL PRESENTATIONS Dated: 14 July 2009 * Please note that the chairs indicated are all to be confirmed. WEDNESDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2009

Time Track Organiser Activity 07:15-21:00 Mental

health and chronic diseases

EUPHA section on Public Mental Health

Pre conference on Genocide and public mental health Organised at the Auschwitz/Oswiecim education centre Chair: Jutta Lindert, Germany Departure to Auschwitz/Oswiecim Tour of the camp The role of medicine during the holocaust The role of public health during the holocaust Elihu Richter, Israel Outlook and discussion Jutta Lindert, Germany Transfer back to Lodz

08:30-20:00 Occupational health

EUPHA section on Social Security and Health

7th Pre conference of the EUPHA section on Social Security and Health: Theories and methods in research on gender aspects of sickness absence Chair: Kristina Alexanderson, Sweden Introducing the theme and the programme Gunnel Hensing, Sweden Gender theories and models relevant for research on sickness absence and return to work Gunnel Hensing, Sweden Group discussions Job and family related explanations of gender differences in sickness absence: a review of the evidence


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Arne Mastekaasa, Norway Sickness absence as an interactive process: gendered experiences of young highly educated women with mental health problems Petra Verdonk, The Netherlands Sickness absence in women – what are the associations to domestic work? Carin Staland Nyman, Sweden Gendering sickness absence research – a way to move forward? Panel discussion Gunilla Krantz, Sweden Discussion on implications for our future research Dinner

13:00-17:00 EPHA EPHA policy workshop 1 [content awaited]

13:00-17:00 Human ecology and public health

EUPHA section on Environment-related Diseases

Pre-conference training seminar in environmental public health [content awaited]

14:00-17:00 EUPHA section on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion

Pre conference - Alcohol as a risk factor in injuries Chair: Johan Lund, Norway Empty glasses and broken bones - Emergency department studies on alcohol and injury in Switzerland Hervé Kuendig, Switzerland Alcohol involvement in traffic accidents in the Arkhangelsk region of Russia Maria Gorbatova, Russia Alcohol as a cause of accidents and injuries: relevance for policymakers Mariann Skar, EUROCARE

14:00-17:00 ASPHER ASPHER: young researchers forum [content awaited]

11:00-16:30 Polish Association of Public Health

National Conference:, Education and Employment Needs for Public Health Professionals (Conference in Polish) Chair: Jan Nosko


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THURSDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2009

Time Track Organiser Activity 09:00-12:00 EUPHA

supported by a grant from Sanofi Pasteur MSD

Round table: Immunisation of adults and elderly: How to make life course vaccination a successful public health strategy Chair: Jacek Wysocki, Poland Introductory remarks Jacek Wysocki, Poland Advocating Life course vaccination in Europe Jean Pierre Miche, Switzerland Life Course Vaccination and Healthy Ageing: policy challenges Michael Gusmano, United States Determinants of implementation of 50+ vaccination in Europe: experience with seasonal influenza vaccination Thomas Szucs, Switzerland Assessing and monitoring 50+ vaccination policies and their implementation Luc Hessel, Sanofi Pasteur MSD Panel Discussion Moderator: Tomasz Kostka, Poland

09:00-12:00 EPHA EPHA policy workshop 2 [content awaited]


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09:00-12:00 ASPHER Pre conference: Development of the European Public Health Core Competencies Programme for Public Health Education; Principles, Coordination and Administration Chairs: Christopher Birt, United Kingdom and Anders Foldspang, Denmark Overview of the Programme Christopher Birt, United Kingdom Principles for development of list of competencies Anders Foldspang Denmark Stakeholder's perspective Allison Thorpe, United Kingdom The use of competency profiles in the health sector Jeni Bremner European Health Management Association (EHMA) Organisational side of the Programme: Overview Robert Otok ASPHER

09:00-12:00 Pre conference Closing the health gap in the European Union Chair: Witold Zatonski, Poland The health gap in Europe Witold Zatonski, Poland Alcohol-attributable mortality in Europe Jurgen Rehm, Switzerland Diet as a risk factor for CVD in Europe Walter Willett, United States

11:30-12:15 Social LUNCH 12:15-13:00 Plenary Joint opening

Stan Tarkowski, Local organizing committee Constantino Sakellarides, EUPHA president Jacek Sitko, ASPHER Andrzej Rys, European Commission Nata Menabde, WHO/EURO Polish representative

13:00-14:00 Plenary Plenary 1: Population health in an era of environmental change: research and policy in ecological frame Anthony J McMichael, Australia From the understanding of infectious disease to their control: what we know and what do not know Jean-Francois Guégan, France


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14:10-15:40 Human ecology and public health

Human ecology and health Chair: Stan Tarkowski, Poland The Szczucin community – particular case of an environmental exposure to asbestos Neonila Szeszenia-Dabrowska, Poland Randomised controlled study for the evaluation of programmes to prevent health risks due to environmental heat excesses, within the Turin elderly residents in 2004 Angelo d'Errico, Italy The decline in Infant Mortality in Portugal: ecological correlates Carlos Matias Dias, Portugal Developing strategies to respond to climate change Jonathan Suk, Sweden The public health services project in the SEE countries – improving human ecology Alex Leventhal, Israel The applicability of a new internationally compatible instrument to assess environmental indicators relevant to obesity in Europe Cecile Knai, United Kingdom

14:10-15:40 European policy and research

EUPHA section on Ethics in Public Health

Workshop: An ethical agenda for public health Chairs: Peter Schröder-Bäck and Els Maeckelberghe, The Netherlands The blurring of boundaries between policy, professionals and citizens and the problem of trust. A new philosophical agenda for public health Klasien Horstman, The Netherlands Rare diseases and public health. What is more important – treatment or prevention? Zbigniew Szawarski, Poland My space or ours? A proposal for a new notion of privacy in matters of public health Els Maeckelberghe, The Netherlands Public health ethics as a framework for self-directed learners solving public health problems Katarzyna Czabanowska, The Netherlands The Ethics of the European Commission’s Health Strategy “Together for Health” Peter Schröder-Bäck, The Netherlands

14:10-15:40 Health services

NIVEL Workshop: Medical practice variation: explanations and methods from an international perspective Chair: Peter Groenewegen, The Netherlands Explaining medical practice variation. Social organization and institutional mechanisms.


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Judith de Jong, The Netherlands Understanding therapeutic traditions in a multilevel framework - new methodological approaches Henrik Ohlsson, Sweden A refutation of the practice style hypothesis: antibiotics prescription by French general practitioners for acute rhinopharyngitis Julien Mousques, France. Variation in children’s consultation behaviour in the Netherlands: a longitudinal study (2001-2005) Liset van Dijk, The Netherlands

14:10-15:40 Health promotion and injury prevention

EUPHA section on Health Promotion

Workshop: Critical Health Literacy - new forms of empowerment and participation Chairs: Thomas Abel, Switzerland and Christiane Stock, Denmark Lay knowledge of health Louisa Ferreira da Silva, Portugal Conceptualizing and measuring critical health literacy in the context of the European Health Literacy Survey (HLS-EU) Kristine Sørensen, The Netherlands Patients’ groups and organizations as key players in developing critical health literacy? – conclusions from an Austrian Study (2007-2009) Peter Nowak, Austria “Dialogical ethnography” a participants’ proposal for HIV/AIDS prevention in Cartagena, Colombia María Cristina Quevedo, The Netherlands.

14:10-15:40 Mental health and chronic diseases

EUPHA section on Public Mental Health

Workshop: Epidemiology of Mental Health in the European Union Chairs: Jutta Lindert, Germany and Sonia Diaz, Portugal The increase in mental illness among adolescents in Sweden - epidemiology and possible explanations Lena Andersson, Sweden Individual and parental risk factors for suicide in a life-course perspective Ellenor Mittendorfer Rutz, Sweden Distress among women in different age groups Jutta Lindert, Germany Depression in Germany: Epidemiology and service provision Anke Bramesfeld, Germany


Occupational health 1 Chair: Mansel Aylward, United Kingdom


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Role and mission of the Interdepartmental Commission in charge of OEL in Poland. Jolanta Skowron, Poland Job strain predicts recurrent events after a first acute myocardial infarction: the Stockholm Heart Epidemiology Program Krisztina László, Sweden Cesarean section rates among health professionals in Finland, 1990–2006 Elina Hemminki, Finland Gender disparities in probability of having unmet health care needs - Using the difference-in-difference test by occupational type Huijeong Kim, South Korea Physicians and their health status and self-care: what interventions in a context of decreasing medical demography? A pilot study in France, 2008 Joel Ladner, France Does being an informal carer deter women from attending for breast cancer screening? A census-based follow-up study. Heather Kinnear, United Kingdom

14:10-15:40 Child and adolescent public health and Migrant health

Child and adolescent health: lifestyle determinant Chair: Auke Wiegersma, The Netherlands Neighbourhood socioeconomic status and children’s health Annemarie Ruijsbroek, The Netherlands Violence experience and daily physical education at primary schools – project: “fit for pisa”, Hanover/Goettingen, Germany, 2003 - 2010 Sebastian Liersch, Germany Quality of life and violence in primary schools of Hamburg Zita Schillmoeller, Germany Physical fighting among adolescents and related risk behaviours: the effect of school. Silvia Fraga, Portugal Clustering of health-compromising behaviour and delinquency in adolescents and adults? Yes but patterns differ by age Sijmen Reijneveld, The Netherlands Predict early findings of Preventive Child Healthcare professionals psychosocial problems in preadolescence? The TRAILS study Merlijne Jaspers, The Netherlands

14:10-15:40 Public health EUPHA Workshop: Developing a conceptual framework for


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workforce: capacity building

section on Migrant and Minority Health

training health care professionals in cultural competence Chairs: Walter Devillé and Karien Stronks, The Netherlands Health personnel perceived cultural problems and opinions on training for the provision of care to a culturally diverse population Luisa Vasquez, Spain Cultural competence: a conceptual framework for teaching and learning. Karien Stronks, The Netherlands Five steps to intercultural competence: Methods and results of training health professionals Ramazan Salman, Germany Evaluation of a project using cultural mediators as a method of addressing the cultural competences of healthcare professionals in Danish hospitals Nils Sande, Denmark

14:10-15:40 Surveillance, monitoring and performance

EUPHA section on Infectious Diseases Control

Workshop: Pandemic Flu! Preparation for and Management of the Influenza A(H1N1) Outbreak Chair: Chakib Kara-Zaitri, United Kingdom and Henriëtte L. G. ter Waarbeek, The Netherlands Euregional cooperation on pandemic preparedness Henriëtte ter Waarbeek, The Netherlands Pandemic Flu preparations in the Federal Republic of Germany Hermann Freund, Germany FluZone: A national web-based system for managing the Influenza A(H1N1) outbreak in England Chakib Kara-Zaitri, United Kingdom Influenza pandemic planning, the new Influenza A(H1N1), and public health practice in the Upper Rhine region Günter Pfaff, Germany

14:10-15:40 Inequalities and social justice Chair: Johan Mackenbach, The Netherlands Water Discipline: Public Health, Human Rights and the Unrecognized Bedouin Villages in the Negev Nora Gottlieb, Israel Environmental justice: The social dimension of environmental health policies Claudia Hornberg, Germany Tackling inequities in health: Developing partnerships and funding mechanisms to address Strategic Research Priorities of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Institute of Population and Public Health Nancy Edwards, Canada


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Growth, Inequality and Population Health in the Era of Economic Globalization Chieh-Hsiu Liu, Taiwan Inequalities in Health Status by Employment Status among Women Minah Kang, South Korea Health inequalities and the new labour market legislation in Germany Lars Eric Kroll, Germany

15:40-16:00 Social COFFEE 16:00-17:30 Human

ecology and public health

EUPHA section on Environment-related Diseases

Workshop: The impact of Public Environmental Health and its professional capacity needs Chair: Peter van den Hazel, The Netherlands The impact of Public Environmental Health and its professional capacity needs Peter van den Hazel, The Netherlands Health effects of commuters’ exposure to air pollution Moniek Zuurbier, The Netherlands An early alerting system for chemical and environmental public health incidents in London Catherine Keshishian, United Kingdom Managing the prevalence of carbon monoxide exposure using various studies and actions Ruth Ruggles, United Kingdom


Workshop: DG Sanco and DG Research [content awaited]


Drug utilization and self tests Chair: Tit Albreht, Slovenia Consistency of prescribing practices for key Primary Health Care diagnoses with treatment guidelines in Armenia Yelena Amirkhanyan, Armenia Mass media and GP statin prescribing Robert Verheij, The Netherlands Mailing of the faecal occult blood test to increase participation to colorectal cancer screening: results from two ongoing randomised controlled trials in Italy Laura Camilloni, Italy Use of self-sampler to increase cervical cancer screening participation: results from an ongoing Italian multicentre randomised controlled trial Paolo Giorgi Rossi, Italy Cost Containment Measures for Pharmaceuticals


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Expenditure in the EU Countries A Comparative Analysis Paula Tele, Romania Use of medicines, illness and perceived economic problems. Results from a cross national comparative survey Niels Rasmussen, Denmark


Changing behaviour Chair: Thomas Abel, Switzerland Pre- and post intervention results of the study OptimaHl 60plus – changing the nutrition behaviour through self-regulation Birgid Schulte, Germany Changes in nutrition habits and serum lipid profile of Lithuanian rural population between1987 and 2007 Janina Petkeviciene, Lithuania About awareness, health risk perception and preventive behaviour of residents of radon affected areas in England and Wales Karin Bronstering, United Kingdom How does non-reciprocity exchange in close social relationships affect health and quality of life in early old age? –Longitudinal findings from the SHARE StudyWinnie S Chow, Germany Information technology to foster implementation of proactive interventions for smoking cessation in general medical practices Christian Meyer, Germany Success factors improving patient compliance behaviour - empirical results from Europe Christian Schäfer, Germany


Mental health Chair: Jutta Lindert, Germany Housing and mental health in England: results of a national probability sample survey Sally McManus, United Kingdom Mental health of migrant adolescents from war-affected countries – risk and protective factors Reiner Buchegger, Austria Workplace bullying and common mental disorders Eero Lahelma, Finland Mental Health Services: Improving access to socio-psychiatric care for Immigrants (Regional Analysis) Ahmet Kimil, Germany Individual and parental risk factors for suicide in a life-course perspective


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Ellenor Mittendorfer Rutz, Sweden Suicide and suicide attempts among asylum seekers in the Netherlands, 2002-2007 Simone Goosen, The Netherlands


Occupational health 2 Chair: Konrad Rydzynski, Poland Development of national health policy for prevention and control of occupational cancer in Bulgaria Ekaterina Mirkova, Bulgaria Type of employment, gender, working conditions and health in Sweden Inge Houkes, The Netherlands A Cochrane Review of the Effects of Flexible Working Conditions on Employee Health and Wellbeing Clare Bambra, United Kingdom Job strain and risk of disability pension; how much is accounted for by occupational status. The Hordaland Health Study (HUSK). Inger Haukenes, Norway Distribution of temporary employment and the association with job characteristics and health-related outcomes among paid employees in Taiwan Wan-Yu Yeh, Taiwan Individual and contextual predictors of permanent work-disability after sickness absence with psychiatric diagnoses: Results from a population based, prospective cohort study in Norway 1997-2002 Sturla Gjesdal, Norway


Maternal and child health Chair: [to be invited] Environmental tobacco smoke in pregnancy and lead level in maternal and cord blood at delivery, study in non-smoking women, Kraków, Poland (2000-2003) Agnieszka Kieltyka, Poland Determinants of overweight among mothers with different ethnic backgrounds: a qualitative study Marieke Hartman, The Netherlands “I was like a robot”: Breastfeeding of Very Low Birth Weight Infants in Iceland Geir Gunnlaugsson, Iceland Infant mortality rates among babies born to migrant mothers: a record-linkage population-based study in central Italy Sara Farchi, Italy Low birth weight and other vascular-related outcomes


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of pregnancy and socioeconomic factors in mothers of a Portuguese birth cohort Elisabete Alves, Portugal Multiple measures of childhood socioeconomic circumstances and mortality: Evidence from the British Whitehall II and French GAZEL studies Silvia Stringhini, France

16:00-17:30 Public health workforce: capacity building

EUPHA section on Public Health Epidemiology

Workshop: Tobacco smoking among health professionals and medicals students in Europe: from epidemiology to smoking prevention and cessation training Chair: Giuseppe La Torre, Italy Tobacco use prevalence, knowledge and attitudes among hospital healthcare professionals: a multicenter study in Italy Maria Rosaria Gualano, Italy Tobacco smoking and Medical students: results of a multicenter Global Health Professions Survey in Europe Kerstin Thuemmler, Germany Smoking prevention and smoking cessation training in European Medical Schools Giuseppe La Torre, Italy


Infectious diseases Chair: Ruth Gelletlie, United Kingdom Knowledge, attitudes and behaviour towards Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus skin infections and S. aureus colonisation rate among university students in Italy in spring 2009 Maria De Giusti, Italy Rapid screening tests for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage at hospital admission: a systematic review and meta-analysis Chiara de Waure, Italy Rapid Estimates of the Excess Mortality associated with 2008-2009 Influenza Activity in Portugal using a daily mortality monitoring system Paulo Nogueira, Portugal Is the Tuberculosis (TB) active surveillance in homeless a strategy for the TB spreading prevention? An experience in Rome. Stefania Bruno, Italy A seroepidemiological analysis of Hepatitis B vaccination status among health workers in Switzerland Damiano Urbinello, Switzerland Q-fever outbreaks in the Netherlands triggers multidisciplinary collaboration


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Gabriëlla Morroy, The Netherlands

16:00-17:30 Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine

Workshop: WHO projects in Poland: first results of Development of a Polish Environment and Health information system (ENHIS) and Development of Polish Children Environment and Health Action Plan (CEHAP) Chairs: Wojciech Hanke and Joanna Jurewicz, Poland Information about CEHAP person from WHO Information about ENHIS person from WHO Inplemantation of ENHIS system in Poland Dr Wotczak Progress in CEHAP: objectives 1 and 2- prof Hanke Progress in CEHAP: objectives 3 and 4 prof Hanke ENHIS in Poland prof Hanke

17:40-18:40 Plenary Plenary 2: 20 years of the European Charter on

Environment and Health [title] Nata Menabde, WHO/EURO [title] Andrzej Rys, European Commission [title] Jacqueline McGlade, European Environment Agency (presentation by David Stanners) [title] Génon Jenson, Health and Environment Alliance

19:00-20:30 Social WELCOME RECEPTION

FRIDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2009

Time Track Organiser Activity 09:00-10:00 Plenary Plenary 3:

Global environmental change and health inequalities Johan Mackenbach, The Netherlands Basic occupational health services for all – a global movement for underserved workers Jorma Rantanen, International Commission for Occupational Health


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European Environment Agency

Workshop: Environment and human health – towards the ecosystem perspective Chairs: Dorota Jarosinska and Ybele Hoogeveen, EEA [content awaited]


European Commission and EUPHA

Workshop: The health information strategy in Europe: how to use European NGOs Chairs: Dineke Zeegers Paget, EUPHA and Elvira Goebel, European Commission [content awaited]


Public health in different settings Chair: Niek Klazinga, The Netherlands Longitudinal study of ethnic differences in blood pressure in adolescents in Britain: Findings from the Determinants of Adolescent Social Well-being and Health study Erik Lenguerrand, United Kingdom Health and School Performance amongst Danish adolescents: results from VestLiv - West Jutland Cohort Study Claus D. Hansen, Denmark Effectiveness of supporting therapies in young hospitalized oncology patients Cecilia Quercioli, Italy Implementation of clinical pathways in Bulgaria – effects, outcomes and perspectives Rositsa Koleva-Kolarova, Bulgaria Does the reprocessing after a period of disuse make the endoscope safe for reuse? An experience at “Gemelli” Hospital in Rome (Italy) from January 2000 to January 2008 Marta Marino, Italy Health Reform in the US: New Opportunities for Public Health? Stephanie Bailey, United States


Smoking Chair: Christiane Stock, Denmark Age of initiation and intensity of cigarette use among smokers in Uzbekistan Gulnoza Usmanova,Uzbekistan A cross-national comparative study of smoking prevalence and behaviour between British and Dutch South Asian and African origin populations harles Agyemang, The Netherlands


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A study on the association between smoking and body mass index prior to pregnancy and risk of hyperemesis gravidarum in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Åse Vikanes, Norway Social capital buffers the increasing inequity of smoking cessation. Kontie Moussa, Sweden Effect of policy measures on the smoking behaviour of people in Germany Elena von der Lippe, Germany Tobacco industry strategies to use the German government to undermine the WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Thilo Grüning, United Kingdom


Mental health among the ageing Chair: Gunnar Tellnes, Norway How can health systems in Europe respond to population ageing? Bernd Rechel, United Kingdom Self-rated health before and after retirement in France: a cohort study Hugo Westerlund, Sweden Older people’s living arrangements and risk of admission to a care home in Northern Ireland, 2001 – 2007: A Census based cohort study Mark McCann, United Kingdom Religiosity and the quality of life of post-operative colon cancer patients Barbara Wozniak, Poland Transitions between Care Settings at the end of life in the Netherlands: results from a nationwide study Ebun Abarshi, The Netherlands Multiple causes-of-death analysis: a comparison between France and Italy Monica Pace, Italy


Sickness certification practice Chair: Kristina Alexanderson, Sweden Sickness absence as a measure of health functioning Mikko Laaksonen, Finland Are self reported data on sick leave reliable? - a comparison between self reported and register data Irene Øyeflaten, Norway The occurrence of sick-listing problems: A repeated survey of 4000 Swedish physicians


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Malin Swartling, Sweden Experiences of factors contributing to women’s health literacy and informed decisions during sick leave. A focus group study performed in the South of Sweden 2008-2009 Lena Mårtensson, Sweden Sickness certification – a frequent and problematic task in Sweden? Christina Lindholm, Sweden Learning the task of sickness certification; a survey among all Swedish physicians Anna Löfgren, Sweden


EUPHA section on Child and Adolescent Public Health

Workshop: Youth Friendly Health Services – meeting the health needs of adolescents Chair: Auke Wiegersma, The Netherlands [content awaited]


ASPHER Seminar: Road Map to 2015: A Strategic Planning Process for Association of Schools of Public Health in Europe (ASPHER) Chair: Antoine Flahault, France Opening presentation Antoine Flahault, France Second Presentation Ilana Levin, France Third presentation Robert Otok, ASPHER Fourth presentation Jacek Sitko, Poland


EUPHA section on Infectious Diseases Control

Workshop: IDC section [content awaited]

10:30-12:00 Health determinants Chair: Ilmo Keskimäki, Finland The influence of area size at different points in the life course on mortality Oyvind Naess, Norway Nature Conservation and Preventative Health Protection in Germany - a strong Partnership? Thomas Classen, Germany Community polarisation in Northern Ireland: an examination of health outcomes using a census based population cohort aged 25 to 74 in 2001 Michael Rosato, United Kingdom


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Assessment of asthma control and its socioeconomic determinants Anissa Afrite, France Educational inequalities and risk in mortality among middle-aged Lihuanian urban population Regina Reklaitiene, Lithuania Marital status and risk of AMI case fatality in Scotland, 1988-2004 Carolyn Davies, United Kingdom

12:00-13:00 Social LUNCH 12:00-13:00 ASPHER Andrija Stampar Award ceremony

12:00-13:00 Glaxo

Smithkline Seminar [content awaited]

13:00-14:30 Human


Proposed EUPHA section on Urban health

Workshop: International Urban Health: Concepts and Monitoring Chairs: Arpana Verma, United Kingdom and Erik van Ameijden, The Netherlands What is Urban Health? Erik van Ameijden, The Netherlands Current Status and the Future of International Urban Health David Vlahov, United States International Urban Health Projects Arpana Verma, United Kingdom


European Centre for Diseases Control and EUPHA

Workshop: EUPHA and ECDC: innovation in communication [content awaited]


University of Maastricht and Catholic University of Rome

Workshop: Primary Care Sensitive Hospital Utilization Chairs: Walter Ricciardi, Italy and Jouke van der Zee, The Netherlands Measuring the strength of primary care systems in Europe Dionne Kringos, The Netherlands [content awaited]


Health promotion and lifestyle Chair: Thomas Abel, Switzerland Neighborhood deprivation level and cardiovascular and diabetes risk: the role of individual risk Suzie Otto, The Netherlands


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Is Use of Snus Associated with Weight Gain and Obesity in the Stockholm Public Health Cohort of 2002-2007. Jenny Hansson, Sweden Country’s transition and consumption of fruit and vegetables among adolescents in North-West of Russia between 1995 and 2004 Anastasiya Rogacheva, Finland Heart health in Oberwart – an evidence-based regional Health Promotion Programme in Rural Austria Ursula Pueringer, Austria What’s In a Word? Response to weight status terminology and motivation to lose weight Cindy Gray, United Kingdom Health communication in a virtual world: A test of Second Life L Suzanne Suggs, Switzerland


University of Leipzig

Workshop: Optimised suicide prevention programmes and their implementation in Europe (OSPI-Europe) Chair: Marco Sarchiapone, Italy Optimizing suicide prevention programs and their implementation in Europe (OSPI-Europe) – Introducing the OSPI model intervention and evaluation methods Katrin Gottlebe, Germany Key elements of national suicide prevention strategies in Europe Marco Sarchiapone, Italy Intermediate outcome criteria and evaluation of suicide prevention programmes: A review Ella Arensman, Ireland Making the case for investing in suicide prevention interventions: an economic perspective David McDaid, United Kingdom


Sickness absence and disability Chair: Johanna Rantanen, International Commission for Occupational Health Work environment and sickness presenteeism in the Swedish Police Force Constanze Leineweber, Sweden Absence incentives and requirements at work as triggers of sick leave. Hanna Hultin, Sweden Low back pain- a population-based register study of care seeking incidence in Sweden Anna Jöud, Sweden The needs of people with a long-term work disability


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regarding occupational rehabilitation support in the Netherlands Lineke van Hal, The Netherlands Illness and work as predictors of sickness absence in a population of individuals with impaired health Lars-Gunnar Engström, Sweden Factors related to labor participation and underemployment among visually impaired persons worldwide: a literature review Yvonne Goertz, The Netherlands


Project Teenage

Workshop: Preventing socioeconomic inequalities in health behaviour in adolescents in Europe: findings from project TEENAGE Chair: Frank J. van Lenthe, The Netherlands The prevention of socioeconomic inequalities in physical activity and diet in adolescents in Europe Nanna Lien, Norway The prevention of socioeconomic inequalities in smoking in adolescents in Europe Laurence Moore, United Kingdom The prevention of socioeconomic inequalities in alcohol consumption in adolescents in Europe Fabrizio Faggiano, Italy


ASPHER Workshop: European Workforce for Health: Public Health Training and Education Perspective Chair: Theodore Tulchinsky, Israel [content awaited]


SIDARTHa Project Consortium

Workshop: Syndromic surveillance in Europe – Needed or needless? Chairs: Helmut Brand, The Netherlands and Thomas Krafft, Germany Syndromic surveillance lessons – experiences from North America Mark Rosenberg, Canada The SIDARTHa approach – European emergency data-based syndromic surveillance Alexandra Ziemann, Germany Utility of syndromic surveillance in European public health practice Helmut Brand, The Netherlands

13:00-14:30 Innovative methods and evaluation Chair: Jan Zejda, Poland Improving representation of older people in clinical trials: a PREDICT systematic review Andrew Beswick, United Kingdom


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Context free research in the new research agenda in comparative effectiveness Christine Huttin, United States Comparison of a multidisciplinary intervention with a mini-intervention to facilitate return to work for sick-listed employees with low-back problems. Chris Jensen, Denmark A systematic review evaluating the statistical and methodological issues for meta-analyses of genetic association studies in the field of cancer research Stefania Boccia, Italy Evaluation of appropriateness and determinants of cesarean section by application of the Robson classification: the experience of an Italian teaching hospital Laura Murianni, Italy Evaluation of the organization and provision of primary care services in Belarus; application of the WHO Primary Care Evaluation Tool (PCET) Wienke Boerma, The Netherlands



EUPHA section on Food and Nutrition

Workshop: Building Public Support for Health Promoting Agriculture Policy Chairs: Enni Mertanen, Finland and Christopher Birt, United Kingdom Is the Common Agricultural Policy wholly health damaging? Or could it become health promoting? Christopher Birt, United Kingdom Food, Nutrition and Agricultural Policy impact on Health Caroline Bollars, WHO/EURO Integrating health into the CAP – the EU School Fruit Scheme Agnieszka Gogolewska, European Commission Strategic Opportunities for Health Promoting Agriculture in Europe Robert Pederson, European Agriculture and Health Consortium


EPHA Workshop: Can research ever get into the policy-making machine? Chairs: EPHA representative- to be determined [content awaited]


Hospital care Chair: Kenneth Grech, Malta


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A construction site in the hospital: implication on environmental safety in operating room. Federica Tuti, Italy Philanthropic hospitals modernization: An analysis of financing by Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) Rodrigo Leal, Brazil Short stay unit as a new option for improving the use of hospital beds: a meta-analysis. Luigi Pinnarelli, Italy Managing hospitals through patient pathways: the approach to stroke Silvio Brusaferro, Italy The Italian hospitals in the web: a cross-sectional analysis of the official websites Umberto Gelatti, Italy Evaluation of the adapted DRG system in Slovenia Tit Albreht, Slovenia


Physical activity and health promotion Chair: Christiane Stock, Denmark Evaluation of a culturally targeted community based intervention for Turkish people in Rotterdam (the Netherlands) Vera Nierkens, The Netherlands Alcohol consumption and problem drinking as predictors of incident psychiatric hospital admission: evidence of gender differentials in combined analyses of the three linked Scottish Health Surveys (1995 to 2007) Linsay Gray, United Kingdom Physical activity before and after introduction of the congestion road tax in Stockholm: a quasi-experimental study Andrej Grjibovski, Norway Self-regulation methods to change the physical activity behaviour in elderly – Pre- and post intervention results of a German study (2009) Katharina Maria Keimer, Germany The effect of physical activity on functioning Jouni Lahti, Finland Explaining educational differences in leisure-time physical inactivity in 12 European countries Tomi Mäkinen, Finland


EUPHA section on Chronic Diseases

Workshop: Health-related functioning in terms of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health Chair: Iveta Nagyova, Slovakia


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The International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health: Work in progress Marijke de Kleijn-de Vrankrijker, The Netherlands Integrated and Patient-centred care using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health Klaske Wynia, The Netherlands The role of ethnicity in functional limitations among Slovak coronary patients: a matched study Iveta Nagyova, Slovakia Time trends in late-life activity limitations Coen van Gool, The Netherlands


Sickness absence and mental health Chair: Kristina Alexanderson, Sweden Utilization of antidepressants among young adults in Sweden Karolina Andersson, Sweden Sense of coherence strongly correlates with subjective health and mental health in college students Karolina Kósa, Hungary Drinking behaviour and disability retirement in Norway. The HUNT Study Jens Christoffer Skogen, Norway Sleep problems as predictors of disability pensions among middle-aged employees Ossi Rahkonen, Finland Insecure social bonds at work, mental ill-health and sickness absence Ulla-Britt Eriksson, Sweden Lost years of working due to disability pension award for mental disorders Ann Kristin Knudsen, Norway


Open Society Institute

Workshop: The elephant in the room: health of Roma communities in Europe Chair: Tamsin Rose, EPHA Health, health protection and factors influencing health among Roma people in Macedonia Borjan Pavlovski, Macedonia Addressing the gap in immunization coverage of Roma children in R. of Macedonia Muhamed Toci, Macedonia Improving access to health care for Roma in Valjevo Tanja Dimitrijevic, Serbia Small area-level inequalities in health care utilization in


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Hungary after correcting for health needs and taking into account the percentage of Roma population Csilla Kaposvari, Hungary


European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies

Workshop: Scale and impact of health professional mobility in Europe: findings from a research project (2009- 2011) Chairs: Matthias Wismar; European Observatory and Walter Devillé, The Netherlands Impact of health professional mobility in Europe: what do we know? Irene A. Glinos, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, Characteristics and magnitude of health professional mobility flows in Europe Edit Eke, Hungary Health professionals' mobility in Finland Hannamaria Kuusio, Finland Migration of health care personnel: case study from Poland Katarzyna Czabanowska, The Netherlands. Migration of health professionals: UK case study Ruth Young, United Kingdom


Performance indicators Chair: Miroslaw Wysocki, Poland Setting policy: the use of population impact measures Arpana Verma, United Kingdom System Performance and Community Impacts: Using the National PH Performance Standards Dennis Lenaway, United States Implementing Public Health Performance Standards in Israel: A Systems Approach Ehud Miron, United States Public health driven targets in Carinthia/Austria based on a health policy framewok Guido Offermanns, Austria Improving an health monitoring system through performance indicators in the Italian Health Service Silvia Longhi, Italy Measuring the Performance of Public Health Agencies in Israel Vamsi Vasireddy, United States

15:00-16:30 European public health Chair: Mark McCarthy, United Kingdom Self-rated health in Slovenian adult population


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Jerneja Farkas-Lainscak, Slovenia Public Health Research in Republic of Macedonia as an essential public health function Dance Gudeva Nikovska, Macedonia Cross-border health activities in European regions: Good practice for better health Gudula Ward, Germany Tradition in the modern era – Challenges for health promotion. Transnational empirical research. Laszlo Lippai, Hungary Solutions for improving health cooperation in border regions (EUREGIO II) Kai Michelsen, The Netherlands Setting up a European Health Examination Survey Hanna Tolonen, Finland

16:45-17:45 Plenary Plenary 4:

Ethics and public health Zbigniew Szawarski, Poland Violence and mental health Jutta Lindert, Germany

19:00-22:00 Social CONFERENCE DINNER


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SATURDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2009

Time Track Organiser Activity 09:00-10:00 Plenary Plenary 5:

United Europe and public health problems- common policies and common responsibilities? Cezary Wlodarczyk, Poland [Title] Helmut Brand, The Netherlands



Urban health Chair: Jan Zejda, Poland The use of data in urban health policy making: A qualitative study Arpana Verma, United Kingdom Aromatic Hydrocarbons Outdoor and Indoor Pollution in Rome Umberto Moscato, Italy Health effects of particles in an urban environment with Saharan dust intrusions Julio Diaz, Spain Benzo(A)pyrene emission in the cities of the upper Silesia industrial area in Southern Poland: 1980-2005 Aleksandra Moździerz, Poland Adverse health effects among people living in households or areas with problematic accumulation of rubbish: a population based study, Belgium 2004. Edith Hesse, Belgium Water quality profile of an urban coastal zone in the north of Portugal. Influence of pollution sources, weather and water dynamics and sampling strategy evaluation. Alice Maia, Portugal


EUPHA section on Public Health Genomics

Workshop: Genomic literacy in the era of complex diseases – a challenge for European policies on Public Health Genomics Chairpersons: Angela Brand, The Netherlands and Arja Aro, Denmark Genomic literacy of research Nicole Probst-Hensch, Switzerland Genomic literacy of health care professionals and the general public Murielle Bochud, Switzerland Genomic literacy from a public health perspective


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Angela Brand, The Netherlands Genomic literacy in the context of personalized health care Tomris Cesuroglu, Turkey


Outpatient care Chair: Diana Delnoij, The Netherlands Implementing innovation in Primary Care: an Italian experience Lorenza Luciano, Italy Physician density at municipal level and ambulatory health care consumption: a multilevel analysis Johan Van der Heyden, Belgium Use of and satisfaction to dental services after the Finnish oral health care reform Jorma Virtanen, Finland Analysis of income differentials in outpatient health care in Stockholm using zero inflated poisson regression Janne Agerholm, Sweden Does waiting-list active management in ambulatory care work? The results of a before-and-after study -- Antonio G. de Belvis, Italy Higher drop-out rate in non-native patients than in native patients in rehabilitation in The Netherlands Maurits Sloots, The Netherlands


EUPHA section on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion and EUPHA section on Public Health Epidemiology

Workshop: Injury epidemiology Chairs: Johan Lund, Norway and Guiseppe La Torre, Italy Fatal injuries mortality in European Union Witold Zatonski, Poland Road traffic injuries and deaths on Italian motorways: are they associated with safety law violations? Guiseppe La Torre, Italy Long-term consequence of injury on self-rated health Bjarne Laursen, Denmark


EUPHA section on Chronic Diseases

Workshop: What’s the use of cost-effectiveness of disease prevention Chairs: Hans van Oers and Jantine Schuit, The Netherlands Enhancing the use of cost-effective prevention strategies: Two-way traffic Lejo van der Heiden, The Netherlands Cost-effectiveness research on preventive measures: A review of the literature Paul van Gils, The Netherlands


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Prevention: Cost-effectiveness in context Matthijs van den Berg, The Netherlands


Disability pensions Chair: Wojciech Hanke, Poland Disability pension and sickness absence after coronary revascularisation. A 15-year follow-up study in Sweden 1992-2006 Margaretha Voss, Sweden Occurrence and characteristics of disability pensioners - a prospective cohort study of 56 000 twins followed for 14 years Åsa Victoria Margareta Samuelsson, Sweden Sick leave due to hearing diagnoses and risk for disability pension; a population-based cohort study with 12-year follow up Klas Gustafsson, Sweden All cause and cause-specific mortality among disability pensioners with musculoskeletal diagnoses - results from a prospective cohort study in Norway 1990-2004 Thomas Roraas, Norway Gender differences in work modifications when returning to work after sickness absence: a prospective cohort study in the Netherlands Angelique de Rijk, The Netherlands Why are women more likely to be awarded disability pension? Arnstein Mykletun, Norway


MEHO project

Workshop: Migrant and Ethnic health Observatory (MEHO) Chairs: Marleen Foets and Gerrit Koopmans, The Netherlands Mortality of migrant groups in different European countries: does it matter where migrants move to? Anton Kunst, The Netherlands Acquiring data on and comparing of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes in migrant / ethnic groups in Europe Snorri Rafnsson, United Kingdom Cancer patterns in non-Western migrants to Europe: present knowledge/findings Melina Arnold, Germany. Register data for cross-country comparisons of migrants’ healthcare utilisation in the EU: a survey study of availability and content Allan Krasnik, Denmark Difference in blood cholesterol and growth parameters


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between Roma and non-Roma children Kvetoslava Rimarova, Slovakia


Training and education Chair: Antoine Flahault, France Establishment of the Master of Public Health education in Northwest Russia Andrej Grjibovski, Norway Using priority setting to introduce public health concepts to a multi-professional audience Olivier Grimaud, France The Culture Lab - an innovative public health training approach to raising cultural awareness and competency William Sherlaw, France Social Inclusion through Transcultural (Health-) Education, Capacity Building and Empowerment Ramazan Salman, Germany Willingness to emigrate among medical students in Poland Krzysztof Krajewski Siuda, Poland The value of transnational ties between academic and public health institutions William Sherlaw, France


Impact assessment Chair: Cezary Wlodarczyk, Poland Health Impact Assessment of a Social Welfare Payment for Inclusion Policy: A Tool to Improve Health Gaps and Promote Equity? Leonor Bacelar-Nicolau, Portugal Health impact assessment of Roma housing policies in Central and Eastern Europe Ágnes Molnár, Hungary The impact of the Euthanasia Act on the number of requests for Euthanasia and Physician assisted suicide Gé Donker, The Netherlands Explorative SWOT analysis of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and Health Impact Assessment (HIA) Rainer Fehr, Germany Quantifying health impact of policy proposals: DYNAMO-HIA Stefan Lhachimi, The Netherlands 200900524 The public health impact of economic crises and alternative policy responses in Europe


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David Stuckler, United Kingdom

10:30-12:00 International health Chair: Walter Ricciardi, Italy Social Determinants of Perceived Fair/Poor Health in Adults, Armenia, 2006 Anahit Demirchyan, Armenia Social inclusion in health services use: before and after fee removal in Nepal Ashok Bhurtyal, Nepal Iron Deficiency Anemia in Rural Cambodia: Community Trial of an Iron Ingot Christopher Charles, Canada National Rural Health Mission in India: From Policy to Action Ramesh Sethi, India Using a colour coding system to provide care for pregnant women in Malaysia Rachel Koshy, Malaysia Influencing Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation Intentions in Singapore: An Examination of the Effects of Message Appeals on Protection Motivation Theory Shallyn Leow, Singapore

12:00-13:00 Social LUNCH 12:00-13:00 EUPHA EUPHA presidency ceremony 13:00-14:30 Human


Proposed EUPHA section on Urban Health

Workshop: European Urban Health: Past, Present and Future Chairs: Arpana Verma, United Kingdom and Erik van Ameijden, The Netherlands Past and Present Urban Health Networks Erik van Ameijden, The Netherlands European Urban Health Indicator System – from ECHI to EURO-URHIS Arpana Verma, United Kingdom European Urban Health Indicator System Part Two: Urban Health Monitoring and Analysis to Inform Policy James Higgerson, United Kingdom


National Institute of Public Health and Environment

Workshop: The Joint Action for ECHIM; taking the development and implementation of the European Community Health Indicators shortlist forward Chairs: Arpo Aromaa, Finland and Nick Fähy, European Commission State of the art of the work on the European Community Health Indicators shortlist Pieter Kramers, The Netherlands


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NO TITLE Ari-Pekka Sihvonen, Finland Web based dissemination of the indicator data and acompanying metadata Marieke Verschuuren, The Netherlands Policy context of the European Community Health Indicators developments Gudrun Gudfinnsdottir, European Commission


NIVEL Workshop: Health Services Research into European Policy and Practice Chair: Peter Groenewegen, The Netherlands The state-of-the-art of HSR in Europe Johan Hansen, The Netherlands Setting priorities in HSR: direction and first outcomes of an a consultation among experts across Europe Willemijn Schäfer, The Netherlands Current and future linkages between research & policy across Europe Stefanie Ettelt, United Kingdom


Safety and injury prevention Chair: Johan Lund, Norway Home injury prevention among Arab children in Israel Subhi Badarni, Israel Paternal parenting and unintentional injury of young children: A population-based cohort study in Japan Takeo Fujiwara, Japan Exploration of the impact of a large reduction in alcohol prices on hospital admissions related to alcohol Kimmo Herttua, Finland Delinquent and aggressive behaviour among Roma and non-Roma adolescents Peter Kolarcik, Slovakia Hip fracture: efficacy of early surgery to prevent 30 day in-hospital mortality Elisa Carretta, Italy Short and Long-term Outcome after Severe Traumatic Brain Injuries with Different Injury Mechanisms in Five European Countries Marek Majdan, Slovakia


Diabetes Chair: Coen van Gool, The Netherlands Diabetes in Europe – Results of the DE-Plan project in Styria, Austria


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Ursula Pueringer, Austria Prevalence and determinants of the metabolic syndrome in Arkhangelsk, Northwest Russia. Oleg Sidorenkov, Norway Risk factors of diabetes mellitus in road transport drivers Andrzej Marcinkiewicz, Poland A community-based screening initiative for type 2 diabetes Sofie Van Roosbroeck, Belgium Early identification of individuals with high diabetes and CVD risk factors. The Krakow Municipal Atherosclerosis, Diabetes and Hypertension Prevention Program Krystyna Szafraniec, Poland The role of knowledge for diabetes self-management: A qualitative study of a peer education project in urban poor communities in Cambodia in 2008 Daniela Gohl, Germany


EUPHA section on Social Security and Health

Workshop: Work life participation – predictors and in relation to different health outcomes Chair: Kjell Torén, Sweden Assessments of work disability Lotta Dellve, Sweden Predictors for work-disability and labor force participation variability among persons with airway disease Paul Blanc, United States Predictors for return-to-work after sick leave due to musculoskeletal disorders and effectiveness of interventions Alex Burdorf, The Netherlands.


Migrant health Chair: Krysztof Krajewski-Siuda, Poland Mediterranean migrant diabetes morbidity and mortality in Belgium Hadewijch Vandenheede, Belgium Access to health services in Catalonia from the Ecuadorian immigrants’ perspective Rebeca Terraza-Núñez, Spain Migrant Worker Presentation and Care in a UK Emergency Department Dermot Gorman, United Kingdom The role of language mastery in the use of folic acid among pregnant women with different ethnic backgrounds in The Netherlands


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Renske Hoefman, The Netherlands Migrants use of complementary health care in relation to regular mental health care in the Netherlands Gerrit T. Koopmans, The Netherlands Migrants’ utilization of healthcare in Europe – a systematic review Marie Norredam, Denmark


LATE BREAKER [content awaited]


University of Southern Denmark

Workshop: Policy impact assessments; theory, practice and needs Chairs: Gabriel Gulis, Denmark and Rainer Fehr, Germany DYNAMO-HIA: a ready-to-use tool to determine the health impact of policies and actions Wilma J. Nusselder, The Netherlands Assessing health implications of policies: Views from WHO Marco Martuzzi, WHO/EURO, Rome office for environment and health HEIMTSA/INTARESE projects Fintan Hurley, United Kingdom Impact Assessment practice to support sustainable policy objectives in Europe Peter de Smedt, European Commission Concluding remarks Gabriel Gulis, Denmark

13:00-14:30 EUPHA section on Public Health Genomics

Workshop: Public Health Genomics and effects on solidarity, responsibility and justice Chairs: Klasien Horstmann and J Lunshof, The Netherlands Solidarities in practice: how technology and organization distribute heath care access in the genomic era Erik Aarden, The Netherlands The co-construction of genetics,, insurance and solidarity: the effects of genetic anti-discrimination regimes in European practice of insurance Ine van Hoyweghen, The Netherlands Just Public Health Genomics Peter Dabrock, The Netherlands Sociotechnical constraints on reaching public health goals via public or group avenues Bart Penders, The Netherlands Lay understandings of food, health and personalised


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diets in everyday life Mari Niva, Finland

14:45-15:45 Closing Closing ceremony

Stan Tarkowski, EUPHA Antoine Flahault, ASPHER Niek Klazinga, 2010 Conference

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