Invitation to Attend the Launch of ‘Guide for World Class Commissioners: Promoting Health and Wellbeing – Reducing Inequalities’
The Royal Society for Public Health is delighted to invite 10 health promotion specialist to the launch of the ‘Guide for World Class Commissioners: Promoting Health and Wellbeing – Reducing Inequalities’ on 9th December at 28 Portland Place, W1B 1DE, 2pm.
Sir Muir Gray, director of the NHS National Knowledge Service will give the keynote speech.
This document has been developed by the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) in partnership with the National Social Marketing Centre (NSMC) and funded by the Department of Health. It is based on the many developments in the practice of health promotion and social marketing in recent years, and draws on an integrated model of health promotion and social marketing. It explains the value and characteristics of effective health promotion and social marketing, tools and techniques to help to attain those characteristics, and case studies of how to commission to achieve the best outcomes.
Advice and guidance on commissioning for health improvement has been relatively neglected compared with commissioning for services, and the guide therefore fills an important gap.
Registration is on a first come first served basis so If you would like to attend please RSVP by 20th November to Nelly Araujo, naraujo@rsph.org.uk or alternatively on 020 3177 1622.
19th ETC-PHHP Summer Course in Co-operation with EUMAHP Strategies for Health in Europe - Building Civil Society for Health.
This year the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal – Germany (department of Social and Health Sciences) will be hosting the ETC Summer Course on 26th July – 6th August 2010.
Since 1991 the European Training Consortium in Public Health and Health Promotion (ETC-PHHP) has organised annual training courses with a focus on developing tools for health promotion strategies in Europe. The course is run at Master's level and the Local co-ordinator of the European Master in Health Promotion will be Dr Arnd Hofmeister.
The main focus of the course will be exploring (trans-)figurations of European civil societies and possibilities to increase "the control over the determinants of health" of individuals and societies by building civil societies.
The participants may come from public health, health promotion, all levels of health care, education, social work as well as research, management and policy backgrounds.
Deadline for application: April 2nd, 2010.
For more information please download the 
Summer School 2010 or visit the website www.etc-summerschool.eu
Geneva 2010: Joining forces for Health, Equity and Sustainable Development
In a globalised world, the dynamics of modernisation and urbanisation pose major challenges to both Health promotion and societal development. Thus, the Global Scientific Committee of the 20th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion is about building bridges between health promotion and sustainable development.
They are calling for the submission of abstracts suggesting symposia, workshops and oral papers/posters to be presented and discussed at the conference which will be from the 11th to 15th July 2010 in Geneva, Switzerland.
For more information please download the
Geneva 2010 - Call for Abstracts
