Why are women at higher risk of low value practice and consequently also at higher risk of ADVERSE EVENTS? Why in case of female patients, GPs more frequently violate recomendations (do DO NOT DO)?

OVERGEND project aim to analyze the phenomenon of overtreatment initiated in primary care from a gender perspective to reduce the number of females suffering from adverse events due to receiving unnecessary treatments. Also, to establish a recommendation for future overuse research incorporating a gender perspective.

Prof. Jose J. Mira Solves invited experts from Portugal (Prof. P. Sousa), Finland (Prof. S. Tella), Croatia (dr. B. Knezevic) and Slovakia (Prof. A. Madarasova Geckova) to discuss findings, interpretations and recommendations.

https://www.choosingwisely.org/

http://en.overgendproject.com/

Read a new open access article recently published.

Editorial: Health of Adolescents: Quantitative and Qualitative Perspective, by Jaroslava Kopcakova, Daniela Husarova, Erik Sigmund, Gabriel Banik, Lenka Sokolova, published in Frontiers in Psychology, section Health Psychology.

To view the online publication, please click here.

This Research Topic aimed to highlight Health of Adolescents from Quantitative and Qualitative Perspective of Research. Adolescence is a period of extensive psychological changes, such as the need to explore, growing independence and the need for peer acceptance and family support. Within this Research Topic was published 17 highly relevant and cited research articles.

To view the online articles, please click here.

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/