HEALTH PROMOTING CHANGES IN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS FORUM
Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd April 2004
Melbourne Convention Centre, Corner Spencer and Flinders Street, Melbourne, Australia
 
Health Promoting Changes in Emergency Departments is a two-day forum that will explore the opportunities for health promotion in emergency departments and provide case studies that are occurring in this setting.  
 
This forum will be relevant to workers who are making health-promoting changes in their emergency department, hospital or health service.  It will highlight change management methods to equip delegates with skills to effectively facilitate health-promoting organisational changes.  Project management techniques pertinent to health promoters will also be included in the program.  
 
Highlights of the comprehensive program include:
 
Health promotion skill-development workshops and presentations:
-        Project management for health promoters by Ray James, Director of the Collaboration for Applied Research and Evaluation at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research (Perth)
-        Managing health-promoting organisational change by Associate Professor Marcus Kennedy, Director of Emergency Services at the Royal Melbourne Hospital (Melbourne)
-        Influencing management and other staff by Rick Hayes, Senior Lecturer at the School of Public Health, La Trobe University (Melbourne)
-        Health promoting hospitals overview and update by Doctor Anne Johnson, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Public Health, Flinders University (Adelaide)
 
Practical case studies of health promotion projects in emergency departments:
-        Health promoting waiting rooms and emergency department design
-        Emergency department's role in preventing child abuse
-        Patient health information sheets in the emergency department
-        Promoting staff health
-        Clowning around in the emergency department
-        Emergency departments promoting physical activity
-        Screening in the emergency department
-        Reducing violence in the emergency department
-        Health promoting clinical guidelines
 
Registration fee: $140 
 
For further information about the Forum, a program or a registration form visit www.inform-ed.com (click on NEWS) or e mail [log in to unmask]  For other queries telephone (+61) 3 9764 6174.
 

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