Our colleague Aurel Zelko attended the BetterCare Management Committee meeting that took place in Frankfurt am Main on 26th and 27th February, 2024. The event was an important meeting that provided a chance for healthcare professionals, researchers, and other experts to gather to discuss objectives and deliverables and determine the steps we can take together to make progress. The meeting’s objectives included shaping the working groups and assigning tasks to be carried out this year.

More information here

HBSC study bringed HBSC members together, online, on 20th December 2023. Joint meeting of Peer culture and leisure-time focus group and Electronic Media Communication writing group bringed experts from Czechia (Petr Badura, Lukas Blinka), Slovakia (Jaroslava Kopcakova), Italy (Claudia Marino, Natale Canale, Tommaso Galeotti), Netherlands (Regina van den Eijnden), Finland (Kwok Ng), Izrael (Meyran Boniel-Nissim), Luxembourg (Romain Brisson) and others together to talk about future of adolescent´s health, especially at the stage of refining the items for HBSC 2025/26 data collection.

On November 29th 2023 prof. Madarasova Geckova, dr. Husarova and dr. Kopcakova attended an online meeting with the International Journal of Public Health (IJPH)  Editors-in-Chief.

The Editors-in-Chief shared information about the journal and its current status, and there were also time for questions, comments and discussion.

More information about the journal can be found here
https://www.ssph-journal.org/journals/international-journal-of-public-health

HBSC Autumn network meeting bringed HBSC members together, online, on 13th and 14th November 2023. This meeting covered a variety of topics, including reflections and results from our latest survey, plans for publications and importantly, preparations for our 2025/26 HBSC protocol.

Daniela Filakovska and Emilia Gajdosova attended the 16th European Public Health Conference and RIVER-EU consortium meeting in Dublin.

Within the consortium meeting, we spent valuable time with our partners discussing the implementation of newly developed interventions to increase HPV/MMR vaccination rates in underserved communities.

For participants of the EPH conference, we offered insights into building trustful relationships with communities and stakeholders to conduct participatory action research aimed at intervention development, implementation and evaluation during our workshop “ Identification of interventions to tackle health system barriers to vaccination: Participatory approaches to involve underserved communities”.

Kick off meeting of cost network BETTER take place in Brussel in October 26th, 2023 and our colleagues, dr. Zelko and prof. Madarasova Geckova participated as members of the management committee. BETTERCARE (CA22152 – Supporting emerging care economy, empowering caregivers to provide safe care at home) aims to seek solutions to face with the consequences of the caregiver errors, involving stakeholders, particularly citizens, and ended users based on a cross-national collaboration.

More information on the link here.

Our colleague Lucia Bosáková visited the University of Southern Denmark, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Public Health in Denmark in recent days. During this work trip, she participated in the teaching of international students in the Contemporary Public Health course. She also completed a series of meetings with assoc. prof. Gabriel Guliš regarding the expert evaluation of EC Horizon projects.

There are still dozens of interviews waiting for us, so that we can bring rich data about what it is like to be a dialysis patient. Knowing the real experiences of people with a certain disease can help patients, their families, students of health professions and those who create policies in the field of health care.

The winding roads that lead us through Slovak forests, villages and towns remind us of their winding, complicated but also hopeful journeys to health and quality of life.

We conduct the interviews for the upcoming website http://www.rozhovoryozdravi.sk

Our colleague Daniela Fiľakovská took part in a round table discussion dedicated to the fight against cancer caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV) in Slovakia, where she had the opportunity to present the H2020 RIVER-EU project to the main experts of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic, representatives of medical professional societies, state institutions, self-governing regions, regional public health offices, health insurance companies and patient organizations. The discussion was devoted to the evaluation of projects and activities aimed at the prevention of cancer caused by HPV, as well as the next steps needed to increase vaccination coverage. 

We invite you to an online forum on the possibilities of improving healthcare in Europe, especially in the area of patient safety.
The panel on new strategies in patient safety will be chaired by prof. Andrea Madarasová Gecková and one of the panelists is our colleague PhDr. Ivana Skoumalová, PhD., which will exist about the qualitative research on the psychological safety of health workers in Slovakia, which we carried out last year.
PROGRAMME
You can see the programme, clicking here

STREAMING LINKS
October, 2nd (Monday): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd9ClFz8FjA
October, 3rd (Tuesday): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NbEhkz3Kvg