Teleconference on Preventive Medicine between Košice and Bratislava host our colleagues. Dr. Peter Kolarčik presented concept of Health Literacy and its utilization in health care system. Prof. Andrea Madarasová Gecková with colleague dr. Slepičková from OUSHI Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic, introduced DIPEx methodology and utilization of patients experience via healtalk.org or hovoryozdravi.cz webportal in clinical practise as well as in training of health care providers.

More information about the event could be found here.

On 8-10 November 2017, our colleagues Daniela Husárová and Laura Urbanová met with other prominent researchers in adolescent health on the regular meeting of Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study network discussing cooperation on research topics and finalising protocol for upcoming data collection in 2017/2018.

“Slovakian adolescents who said it was important for them to pray or meditate and for their lives to have joy and meaning were at lower risk of bullying others. The research also found those individuals were less likely to observe bullying by others, indicating positive peer relationships that influenced their own attitudes toward belittling others. “They think that their peers are not involved in bullying behavior. This afterwards reduces their risk of bullying others,” researchers found. The findings, researchers concluded, indicate “the need to promote strategies that support the development of spiritual well-being among adolescents, as it can play an important role in decreasing the prevalence of bullying.”

Original post could be found here.

Cited manuscript could be found here.

International Journal of Public Health editorial board will be organized by our colleagues prof. Andrea Madarasová Gecková as editor-in-chief and dr. Jana Holubčíková as associate editor from 27th till 28th of October in Olomouc in Czech Republic. More information could be found here.

Our team will host assoc. prof. Erik Sigmund from Palacký University in Olomouc and member of Czech national HBSC team, since October 27th till October 29th 2017. We intensively collaborate on research protocol for upcoming data collection in 2018 within Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study.

Our team hosted Kateřina Paclíková, Msc. from Palacký University in Olomouc, OUSHI since October 9th till October 12th 2017. We intensively collaborate on mapping of care system for children with emotional and behavioral problems as a part of her PhD studies.

Our colleagues, Zuzana Dankulincová Veselská, Daniela Fiľakovská Bobáková, Miriama Lacková Rebičová, Jaroslava Macková and Michaela Pálfiová, on October 11, 2017 in Košice, took part in the day-long conference “Bridges to family” in order to establish contacts with care providers for children with emotional and behavioral problems within the Care4Youth project. Organized by the non-profit organization “Úsmev ako dar”, which is working with us on the Care4Youth project.

Our new PhD student, Ivana Skoumalova, along with colleagues dr. Peter Kolarcik and prof. Andrea Madarasova Geckova will be in Groningen on October 12-13, 2017 working on research protocols of ongoing project and discussing frames of PhD thesis of our new double degree PhD students with supervisors prof. Sijmen Reijneveld and assoc. prof. Jitse van Dijk.

Kick off meeting of ERASMUS+ IMPACCT project IMproving PAtient-centered Communication Competences: To build professional capacity concerning health literacy in medical and nursing education) will be held in Groningen on October 12-13, 2017 with our colleagues Ivana Skoumalova, dr. Peter Kolarcik and prof. Andrea Madarasova Geckova  representing CoHeRenT team. This project aims to develop a training program for health care providers to enhance their capacity in work with clients with low health literacy.

Our colleague Andrea Madarasová Gecková was invited to deliver lecture on utilization of database of patients’ experiences in clinical practice and training of health care workers at 11^th AGEL symposium “New technics and technologies in medicine” which took place in Olomouc in Oct 5-6, 2017. For more information click here.