A participatory meeting of the Slovak national HBSC study team with stakeholders, focusing on reviewing the HBSC protocol, took place at the Ministry of Health, Bratislava, Slovakia on 15 December 2016.

More information could be find here.

Meeting with stakeholders will take place in Bratislava next week (Ministry of Health, Congress hall, 15th December 2016, 11:00) to discuss how research on healthy development  of adolescents should be oriented to fit the needs of stakeholders including frontline experts (e.g. teachers, parents, paediatricians), policy makers, academics, and adolescents itself. All relevant stakeholders are cordially invited.

We are very pleased to invite you to upcoming lecture by MUDr. Jana Kollárová “Health promotion programs and change in health-related behavior” organized by our colleagues from the Department of Health Psychology at the Faculty of Medicince, UPJŠ,  on Friday December 9th, 2016. More information could be found here.

Our colleagues, Peter Kolarčik and Zuzana Dankulincova were talking about electronic mediac communication and cyberbullying with parents of school-aged children from primary school ZŠ Park Angelinum in Košice on 30th November.

Data from one of our projects, Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study, aimed to monitor health and health-related behavior of school-aged children in their social context was presented in Korzár newspaper. Full article could be found here.

We are very pleased to invite you to upcoming lecture by Mgr. Ľudmila Bíšová “Communication with dying patients and their families” organized by our colleagues from the Department of Health Psychology at the Faculty of Medicince, UPJŠ,  on Friday November 25th, 2016. More information could be found here.

Our colleague from Palacky University in Olomouc, assoc. prof. Erik Sigmund, PhD visited our department on Nov 18^th, 2016 to discuss issues related to physical activity of school-aged children and its connection with role model behaviour of their parents.

Andrea Madarasova Geckova was invited to deliver lecture on Public Health in Central and Eastern Europe and possible collaboration between West and East in frame of international project ModeHED Erasmus + Modernizing Health Education in Universities. More information here

One of our projects, Care4Youth study, focused on youths with emotional and behavioral problems was presented in Korzár newspaper. Full article could be found here.

Findigs presented by our colleagues Andrej Belák and Andrea Madarasová Gecková  at Academy of Roma studies (Nov 11, 2016, Bratislava) organized by Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Science appeared on www.aktuality.sk .