On 16 March as a part of the national conference „Child at Risk“ organized by Research Institute of Child Psychology and Pathopsychology, our PhD students, Laura Bitto Urbanova and Simona Horanicova presented findings from qualitative survey GenZer mapping perspectives of adolescents on risk and benefits of using digital technologies and  factors facilitating or hindering their well-being and academic outcomes in schools.

Prof. Andrea Madarasova Gecková presented how HBSC survey is prepared and what will be the content of national report which is on the way to be published.

Community mobilization and communication are important for the successful implementation of the RIVER – EU project aimed at vaccination equity in marginalized Roma communities.

These topics were discussed during the last three days 7-9 of February here in Košice with our colleagues from Connaxis, who visited our department at Faculty of Medicine, Pavol Jozef Šafárik university, but also the community center where we met with Roma health mediators from Healthy Regions and the local school where we discussed the goals of the project with the principal and with the mayor.

Narcolepsy is a rare chronic neurological disease, which is different from feeling tired all the time. A person suffering from this disease falls asleep impulsively (while eating, talking, working) and even without feelings of refreshedness, which disrupts his daily functioning.

Do you want to find out if you too suffer from excessive daytime sleepiness or narcolepsy? 

You can do so in our online screening here: Anketa (unipark.de)

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Our colleague Jaroslava Kopcakova attended a transnational working meeting of PARIPRE project in Olomouc, Czechia from 17th to 19th January 2023.

After the presentation of the project updates and discussion, the main focus was oriented on working on the detailed physical activity-related injuries epidemiological report in 5 countries, based on the data from HBSC studies and on the report from the Physical activity-related injuries prevention intervention study held in Slovakia and Slovenia.

More information on PARIPRE project: https://www.paripre.eu/

She actively participated in the workshop “Health system barriers to vaccination in underserved communities: a tale of four countries” organized together with colleagues from the RIVER-EU project from Netherlands, Greece and Polland as a part of EUPHA conference held in Berlin November 9-12.

The short presentations were followed by a discussion with the participants, which touched on important topics and which was also appreciated by the moderator of the workshop – the president of The EUPHA Migrant and ethnic minority health section Dr Bernadette Kumar. 

The first in-person RIVER-EU project consortium meeting is over. Our colleagues Daniela Filakovska and Jana Plavnicka spent last week in Berlin, meeting our consortium partners on 8th of November, discussing achieved milestones and planning project activities for the upcoming year. Challenges in front of us concern mainly the development and implementation of a tailored intervention with the aim to increase HPV vaccination in underserved communities. 

From 23rd to 26th October 2022, our colleague Jaroslava Kopčáková and Peter Bakalár from the Faculty of Sport Prešov University participated in the ISPAH congress which is the largest physical activity and health Congress in the world and ISPAH is widely recognized as the leading global society of researchers and practitioners focussed on promoting physical activity across the life course.

Together with the colleague Aleš Gába from the Faculty of Physical Culture of Palacky University in Olomouc, who significantly helped in the processing of the national results of the Global Matrix 4.0 project, they presented these results and subsequently also the results of the PARIPRE project and the national VEGA project.

The congress also included the presentation of the global results of the Global Matrix 4.0 project with the participation of several national team leaders.

Want to know more?

The article on the global results of the Global Matrix 4.0 project can be found here: https://journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/jpah/aop/article-10.1123-jpah.2022-0456/article-10.1123-jpah.2022-0456.xml

National results of the Global Matrix 4.0 project can be found here: https://www.activehealthykids.org/slovakia/
The ongoing results of the PARIPRE project can be found here: https://www.paripre.eu/