Will you be the leader who discovers the new perspective required to navigate these chaotic times?
Find out how you can shift from “strategic planning” to “strategic thinking” and inspire your staff to give their personal best. Join us at Conference 2011: A Business Imperative as we uncover how, in these trying times, a healthy workplace culture, leadership and a positive psychosocial environment can work for you.
Nordic Tour 2011: Mental Health and Work - Can we Improve Return to Work and Retention for Employees with Mental Health Problems? 04/10/2010
- 04/10/2010
Each of the 5 1-day seminar in each of the Nordic countries will (i) update the current knowledge about antecedents and consequences of mental health in the labour market, (ii) give recommendations on interventions with the purpose of improving the return to work among employees with mental health problems and (iii) ) introduce country situations and strategies, as well as best practices of return to work. The aim is to share experiences and to improve the Nordic collaboration and networking in Return to Work matters.
4 October, Copenhagen, Denmark
12 October, Helsinki, Finland (Finnish Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers event)
17 November, Stockholm, Sweden
22 November, Oslo, Norway
1 December, Reykjavik, Iceland
30th Congress of the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH) 18/03/2012
- 23/03/2012
The ICOH 2012 Congress will bring together occupational health researchers and practitioners worldwide to share and learn from each other the most current advances in the wide field of occupational health. The site of the Congress has been shifted from Monterrey where it was originally planned to Cancun to ensure the security of the participants throughout the meeting period. Cancun provides the perfect setting for the international exchange of advances in research and practice.
Call for abstracts open until 20 July 2011.
3th Annual Nordic Ergonomics Society Conference - Wellbeing and Innovation Through Ergonomics 18/09/2011
- 21/09/2011
The Nordic Ergonomics Society (NES) conference brings together researchers and practitioners with an interest in ergonomics. This facilitates the sharing of results and contributes to the foundation of networks as well as improving the quality of ergonomics. The organizers invite participants from all over the world to join this traditional Nordic conference. The theme of the conference is "Wellbeing and Innovation Through Ergonomics".
Dr. Jaswant Guzder (Frameworks of Cultural Safety and the Cultural Axis in Child and Family Clinical Consultation)
Dr. Sharon Kohen (Exploring Community Supports for Mental Wellness of Punjabi Seniors)
Dr. Shimi Kang (Change for Good Health - Using Motivational Interviewing within a Cultural Context)
Dr. Monique Wong (Satellite Babies - Are we Creating the Next Generation's Mental Health Crisis?)
Lee Gunderson (Lost Between Cultures: Teenage Immigrant Students Navigating Canadian Schools)
and others
International Congress on Culture, Health and Well-being 21/09/2011
- 24/09/2011
The relationship between culture, health and well-being is extremely diverse. Culture, health and well-being are all crucial elements of the complex, extending from medicine and health promotion to broad cultural aspects of creativity and social well-being. The aims of this congress are to (1) explore the link between culture, health and well-being, (2) identify methodological possibilities of the field, (3) consider what constitutes well-being, healthy life, and happiness, (4) share best practices involving culture and health to improve well-being and (5) promote Artists` health and well-being.
EXTENDED Deadline for submission of Abstracts: 15 July 2011
The workshop with multi-disciplinary approaches will give a platform for discussion on:
The present state of flexicurity as a policy agenda and as a scientific concept,
The work related health and well-being issues in European and global context,
The potentialities of flexicurity practices to moderate the harmful consequences of job insecurity,
The role of gender structures in the situation where the security at work is frequently impugn and flexicurity is launched as a solution,
The feasibility of flexicurity under the permanently unstable global economy and different (welfare state) regimes.
Call for abstracts is open until 31 July 2011. Please send a free format abstract by e-mail to the course coordinator.
Symposium: Nachhaltigkeit in der Gesundheitsförderung 09/06/2011
- 09/06/2011
Am Donnerstag, 9. Juni 2011 findet im Fachhochschul-Studienzentrum Pinkafeld das Symposium: „Nachhaltigkeit in der Gesundheitsförderung“ statt.
Im Rahmen wissenschaftlicher Vorträge wird Nachhaltigkeit in der Gesundheitsförderung anhand verschiedener Themenbereiche aufgegriffen. Im Zuge der Posterpräsentation erhalten Sie Einblick in die Maßnahmenumsetzung in den Projektgemeinden und Projektschulen des Modellprojekts „Gemeinsam gesund in Bezirk Oberwart“. In den World Cafés erhalten Sie die Möglichkeit, sich mit Experten zu den Themen Bewegung, Ernährung und psychosoziale Gesundheit auszutauschen.
Following the first conference in Paris (September 2005) and the second in Naples (November 2009), this is the third European conference organised on the theme of Child and Adolescent Mental Health in Schools. The conference will provide a forum for education and mental health professionals to share practice, research and new ideas and to review the impact of current changes in the direction of health and education policies.
Research on Stigma and Discrimation Summer School 14/07/2011
- 15/07/2011
This course will enable students to develop knowledge and understanding of theoretical concepts related to stigma and discrimination in mental health addition to providing practical examples which will facilitate students’ ability to evaluate, plan and conduct research on mental health related stigma and discrimination.