According to various stakeholders consulted during IMPACCT project meeting with stakeholders held in Kosice on 14th of June, Health Literacy education is highly needed in medical curricula. Valuable information was provided for further development of the learning units.

Diversity in the content of curricula was recognized as a relevant challenge to take into consideration for the development and implementation of the learning units. Therefore, IMPACCT team proposed a supermarket model, which means that educators can select different learning units relevant for their setting or integrate components of learning units to existing education. Furthermore, diversity is a main theme throughout the different learning units as it also impacts on the patient-professional interaction.

On 30th of May our colleagues, Zuzana Dankulincova and Daniela Filakovska from Care4Youth project, have met with representatives from two National projects run by The Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family of the Slovak Republic.

Together they discussed potential future cooperation on National Project – Support for protection of children from violence and National Project – Improve victims’ access to services and establish contact points for victims.

Our colleague, prof. Andrea Madarasova Geckova, was invited to present findings of Health Behaviour in School-aged Children survey on the 46th Congres of Hepatology in Donovaly, May 17-19, 2018. Together with assoc. prof. Tibor Baska they presented trends in alcohol consumptions and association of alcohol consumption within social context. More information could be found here.

On the 11th of May, 2018 prof. Madarasová Gecková delivered a lecture for health care providers on using database of HIV+ patiens experiences in clinical practice at workshops of Slovak Society of Infectologists „HIV-minulosť, súčasnosť, budúcnosť II, Sielnica“ on 11.-12. 5. 2018.

Training of HBSC team for HBSC Slovakia 2017/2018 survey had been organized in Košice, Ružomberok, Bratislava and Banska Bystrica between 20th and 23rd of March.

Three coordination centres are ready to start data collection including anthropometric parameters and fitness measure starting tomorrow 26th of March 2018!

HBSC team visited Ministry of Education state secretary dr. Peter Krajnak and his colleagues from Teach for Slovakia Lucia Kazimirova and Maria Prekop.

Very inspiring discussion on potential of HBSC survey for various stakeholders including policy makers, frontliners as well as teachers, parents and children was discussed. Moreover the benefits of multi-institutional collaboration was discussed. Last but not least we introduce contribution of our colleagues from departments of physical education in Kosice, Nitra and Banska Bystrica who will join us and add to HBSC survey measuring of antropometric parameters and fitness.

More information from meeting here.

Andrej Belak completed a round of 3 invited lectures in Prague, Czech Republic.

On the 19th of March, he presented an introductory lecture “On trust into people and mistrust towards documentation as a successful provisional strategy” at a workshop of the Czech Association of Social Anthropologists focused on ethics.

The next day, he presented an invited lecture “Biomedicine is not as bad as it used to be” as part of a Master’s Degree course “Anthropology in action” organized by the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University.

Later on in the evening, he closed his Prague gig with a public lecture “On the harmfulness and usefulness of genetics for the Roma”, invited by the alternative club Cross and the Seminar of Romani Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University.