Our colleagues Daniela Fiľakovská, Lucia Bosáková and Andrej Belák attended the advisory board of the ROMZAVIP project focusing on health and access to health care services in marginalized Roma. Together with colleagues from Olomouc University Social Health Institute and other invited guests from various organizations focusing on marginalized Roma they discussed preliminary results and future challenges of this project.
Our colleague Peter Kolarcik and other members of the IMPACCT project are at the Jacobs University in Bremen for transnational event, where they are discussing the current status of developing Learning units, possible facilitators and barriers of the project. Meeting with stakeholder and their feedback is also planned.
Our colleagues published in Allergy, the official journal of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology on the topic “Construction of multiple visual analog scale (UAD‐9) for measuring severity of symptoms and quality of life of patients with respiratory allergy”. Want to learn more? Follow the links!
Article might be found here.
Want to learn more about Generation Z as a research challenge? Come to MINERVA on Oct 22nd and learn from our guests!
For the very first time HBSC team was awarded – and this award is for medial event – HBSC press conference. THANK YOU all who contributed to it!
From 3 till 7 September 2019, our colleagues Andrea Madarasova Geckova, Zuzana Dankulincova, Daniela Husarova, Miriama Lackova Rebicova, Jaroslava Mackova, Ivana Skoumalova, Laura Urbanova and Peter Kolarcik met with other prominent researchers in the field of health psychology on the 33rd annual conference of European Health Psychology Society in Dubrovnik, Croatia. They were invited to share their knowledge via one oral presentation and six poster presentations on latest findings from Care4Youth, HBSC and Health literacy studies.
One of our colleagues, dr. Jaroslava Kopcakova presented her poster “Association between cardiorespiratory fitness and selected health-related behaviour among adolescents” on last HEPA Europe conference held in Odense, Denmark (28.-30.8.2019).
Moreover, she participated in the discussion with other experts working on the topics of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity as well as on Transport and Health.
One of the keynote lectures of Swiss Public Health Conference “Child and Adolescent Public Health” was presented by our colleague prof. Andrea Madarasova Geckova and devoted to Generation Z and research challenges we are facing when trying to learn more about this digital generation.
Conference took place in Winterhuur in Aug 2019 and expertise of our team was used to deliver that lecture.
Want to learn more about this event? Follow here and for the full presentation here.
Our colleagues Daniela Filakovska and Andrej Belak participated at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Gypsy Lore Society and Conference on Gypsy / Romani Studies which was held at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik, August 15 to 17, 2019.
They presented two inter-connected presentations on Antigypsyism as a fundamental cause of the poor health of segregated Roma: Pathways operating through segregated Roma themselves & Pathways operating through health-system services. They used the opportunity to discuss their overreaching findings from series of studies with experts from all over the world.
Closing the gap in Roma healthcare: reflections on evidence, policy, and activism
Virtual Issue Edited by: Andrea Madarasova Geckova (Editor-in-Chief) and Anke Berger (Managing Editor)
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